While surveying a telegraph line in 1861, Western Union engineer Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger) is severely injured in an accident. He is discovered by Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott), an outlaw on the run from a posse. Forced to travel on foot after his horse was hurt, Shaw at first considers stealing Creighton's horse, but changes his mind and takes the man with him, saving his life.
Sometime later, following his recovery, Creighton returns to Omaha, Nebraska and plans the construction of a telegraph line from Omaha to Salt Lake City, Utah. Facing considerable opposition to the line from Confederate soldiers, Indians, and outlaws, Creighton elicits the help of his sister Sue (Virginia Gilmore), foreman Pat Grogan (Minor Watson), and assistant Homer Kettle (Chill Wills).
Looking to put his outlaw past behind him, Shaw arrives at Creighton's Western Union office looking for honest work and is hired as a scout by Grogan who is unaware of his past. Creighton recognizes him among the men and allows him to stay despite his suspicions. Creighton also hires tenderfoot Richard Blake (Robert Young), a Harvard-educated engineer as a favor to Blake's father. Shaw and Blake are both attracted to Sue and vie for her attention, but their romantic rivalry is cut short when construction of the telegraph line starts on July 4, 1861.
After work commences on the line, one of the men is killed apparently by a mysterious band of cattle-rustling Indians. Unconvinced that Indians are to blame, Shaw rides out to investigate and follows the rustlers' trail to the camp of Jack Slade, a former friend and cohort, whose gang committed the killing disguised as Indians—the gang Shaw left following his last bank robbery. Slade reveals that they are working for the Confederacy to disrupt Western Union because they believe the telegraph service will help the Union. Shaw rides away and returns to the line. Not wanting to turn in his former friends, Shaw tells Creighton that a large band of Dakota Indians stole the cattle, and recommends that they simply replace the herd and not risk a fight with the Indians.
Sometime later, a confrontation takes place between men working on the forward line and a band of drunken Indians. When one of the Indians tries to steal some equipment, a nervous Blake shoots him, ignoring Shaw's order to remain calm. After word arrives that the main camp is under attack by other Indians, the Western Union men rush back to help with the defense. At the main camp, Slade's men, who are again disguised as Indians, steal the Western Union horses. The company discover the ruse when one of the wounded Indians turns out to be a white man. Forced to buy back their stolen horses from Slade, Creighton becomes suspicious of Shaw's involvement, especially when he admits to knowing the gang.
Soon the U.S. Army arrives and announces the Indians have now refused to allow the telegraph lines to go through their territory in response to Blake's shooting of the drunken Indian. Creighton, Shaw, and Blake ride out to convince Chief Spotted Horse to allow them to build the line through Indian territory, even though the man Blake wounded was Spotted Horse's son. Creighton is finally able to persuade the Indians to allow them passage, and work continues until the company approaches Salt Lake City.
Sometime later, Shaw receives word that Jack Slade wants to meet with him. On the way to see Slade, Shaw is captured and bound by Slade's men. Slade says his group is going to burn down the Western Union camp and they don't want Shaw to interfere. After Slade and his men ride off, Shaw escapes from his ropes but arrives back too late to prevent the fire. He helps rescue some of the Western Union men from the flames and burns his hands in the process.
After the fire, Creighton confronts Shaw for an explanation, but Shaw does not reveal what he knows and is fired by Creighton. As Shaw leaves the camp, he tells Blake that Slade is actually Shaw's brother and that he, Shaw, will find Slade's gang and stop them from interfering with the telegraph project. Shaw rides off and finds Slade and his men in a nearby town. At the barber shop, Shaw confronts his brother, whose gun is concealed under the barber's sheet. Slade shoots Shaw through the sheet. Shaw fights back in spite of his wound, killing some of the gang members, and then dies. Blake arrives and continues the fight with Slade who dies from his wounds. Soon after, the Western Union line is completed and the workers celebrate. When Sue laments the absence of Shaw, Creighton tells her that Shaw can hear them.
横滨流星突然开窍了？霓虹演艺圈新添一枚变态DV 男可喜可贺……村长真的……裸贷啥时候还完呢（bushi） 白鸟乌啦啦酱是这几年最喜欢的子役了，请平稳长大，不要歪！
片尾以为会出来结果藏在彩蛋
这有什么拍两个半小时的必要吗，而且这个原著也挺不适合拍成电影的，影像还是有很多地方达不到文字那份细腻的。剪辑和演员都很有割裂感（喜欢的小子役长大了点更会演了，比丝丝演得好👍🏻。桃李给小女主擦嘴那里演得好，很有一份隐忍在里面。李相日的电影画面很好很意识流但剪辑和剧情还是一如既往的稀碎，不刷手机很有可能看不下去的一部。
人们只能看到想看到的东西。善意被曲解成恶意，理解会变成误解。（流星演技进步很大甚至有一点点心理阴影…）
作为群众，我们当然知道自己看到的不是全部，我们可以让舆论环境不一边倒，也可以不去过多释放恶意，但我们本质上无法近距离地接触真相。那是否应该质问司法和媒体又做了些什么，男主的生理疾病是一点线索都查不出来吗？没有一个能靠近案件的人觉得事情有蹊跷吗？其次，合理身份的关系者给女性造成的伤害确实有可能比不合理的关系者多，但是这里面缺少对暴力的控诉，反而用温情去化解，看得人特别难受。最后呢，一个女孩从小就受了各种社会性伤害，她通过和一个年龄不对等的男性进行相互救赎，就可以达到精神抚慰，忘记伤痛了？又是一种主体移位的感觉。表演方面感觉普普通通，甚至每个人都有种漂浮感。导演应该拍了很多吧，各种幕后片段未公映片段，总体风格又慢又暗又长。
质感很上乘，故事倒是比想象中简单得多，穿插过去的故事也容易与现在区分开，大家演技都挺好的。更纱真是有够苦，始终没有归处所以才会更想念自由自在时陪伴的阿文，倒是阿文才是真的从以前就喜欢更纱吧。
甚至没能好好讲一个故事，四年了，你就给我这个？
不知道导演想表达什么，想看书。
——那接着，再流浪向别处就好。”
看出导演的野心了，世界观上，还有大场景上。但是怎么说动作戏终归要回归动作，魔女2比1弱的地方，第2个魔女台词少，动作戏也少，靠念力的地方太多了，场景很壮观，但是人物就显得单薄了，反倒要靠文戏去填，因此新人演技能展现的空间也少了吧。除此之外整体台词都很多废话。在魔女1的短评里还说女主的演技有点过，现在的多美已经成长为非常成熟的演员了。还是会看第三部，希望剧情能撑住。
镜头是有加分的，冗长的时长里没有实质性的内容很减分...
非常悲伤和致郁的电影，切入的视角相当独特，当大段铺陈把两人的情感羁绊煽情到顶端时，以为他们要排除万难终将一起流浪时，意外的逆转，瞬间前面积攒的纯粹和凄怜统统荡然无存，对于痛苦的根源莫大的讽刺：他并非没有欲望…
前半段：电影真好看！后半段：？？？ps.流星说因为演了变态DV男，ins狂掉粉.....我看完只觉得演的真好 爱了爱了
电影版确实拍得非常令人无语……人物、情感爆发、叙事因果都一塌糊涂……本来很期待阿文和小更纱-大更纱的对手戏表演，结果看得火大
这种故事应该拍得再拧巴再变态一点才会显出美感。
三星半。没看过原著，现在这个故事挺好的，重点放在“事实”和“现实”之间如同月圆月缺的关系，这个喻指很喜欢。缺点是节奏太慢，人物设定过于文艺化。
第一部的屠龙少女开始有点像恶龙了
李相日还真是偏爱有缺陷又敏感的边缘人群，不过这一部的情绪总是上不来，就让人感觉有点磨叽且矫情。
7.5
故事稍微没有第一部精彩，特效和动作场面升级了。不管之前看上去多牛逼最后都得变炮灰的设定很带感。连续看的魔女2和犯罪都市2，感觉韩国商业动作片的观赏性完全可以碾压好莱坞了。
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