I grew up watching western tv shows and movies with my dad. This is a classic type of western movie and in my opinion well worth the watch. Good vs bad and as always good wins but not without a struggle.
It was boring,boring,and more boring…..
Sadly forgettable movie, a good cast but they barely interact. Most of the movie just happened to the cast they don’t get a chance to act.
This entire film becomes uninteresting and forgettable. which, considering the stellar cast, is strange to observe. The soundtrack, cinematography, and camerawork could all use some improvement.
What is Waltz doing at the moment. First „The consultant“ now this?
The cast was star rated. The best acting though was by Benjamin Bratt. Dafoe and Waltz are great actors but the script really want that great. The Spanish spoken parts were better, almost like the film was written for a Spanish speaking audience and then converted the "gringo" parts to English. The script leaked otherwise with mostly horrible western cliches.
The cinematography was terrible also Low budget nowadays can produce some spectacular views in films but this was like they gave a second thought to lighting. The sets are just too bland, like made for a black and white movie. Throw backs to old TV westerns that just leave the film lacking big screen appeal.
The only saving grace was the cast, proving talent can take a turd and make it look like a stone, but never get it to a diamond. The story was great, supposedly based or inspired by a true story. With the wild west, who knows? Just a real shame since the story was a good one. Need a better screen writer. The script just lacked luster at every turn.
6 because of the cast. Only way you really love this is if you were addicted to black and white TV westerns.
Don’t understand the bad reviews. I enjoyed it. Very well played, nice story, a few surprises.
The lack of budget is, curiously, what hampers a good part of the virtues that this homage to the classic low-budget western developed by Bud Boetticher could have. He has good ideas about the inevitability of fate, as Joe Cribbens (Willem Dafoe) says: "Besides, there's no avoiding it." It could be said that only the female character, well played by Rachel Brosnahan, who somehow manages to escape hers. But there are only notes from Walter Hill's mastery, sketches that fade into the uniformity of digital cameras.
Boring storyline! The acting was just terrible! Save yourselves! DO NOT WATCH!
Shout by Tyberious CalhounBlockedParent2023-01-06T17:14:43Z
Despite the loaded cast, this film wasn't good. It had the aesthetics of a Hallmark western. It looks as though the budget was spent on the cast, and very little was left for a quality cinematographer. I like quite a few Walter Hill films, but he hasn't done quality stuff since the Deadwood pilot almost 20 years ago.