Interesteg
What makes it different from others?
PiraBit
if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
Francene Odetta
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
scarab033
Typical western script, sure. I liked the plot, the predictability, and did I mention, a western? I did have trouble getting past the horrible acting by Sage Mears. In fact, I only logged in to review because I needed to tell someone how horrible the acting was.But I made it to the end, had a few chuckles at the "acting", and enjoyed the plot.
Its a western, and the limited budget wasn't what almost made this a comedy.
Just the scene where she was out of bullets trying to shoot Lee Horn was hysterical. Couldn't do a second take? Oh well, killed a lunch hour
duzt-52804
I'm not very far in, and I'm not sure I'll make it to the end, but it's pretty obvious that this movie is Hannie Caulder except that they gave the woman two kids that also were killed. She'll learn to shoot by befriending a bounty hunter and then track down the killers. Minus the acting of Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Ernest Borgnine, and Christopher Lee. Just a shame that the entire script was heisted without mentioning the original. Just go watch Hannie Caulder. Not to say the original was perfect either, clearly she got really lucky at several turns. But luck happens. The camera work is a little better in this version, but that's about it. It feels like they tried to add in some different scenes - you could try to show more in-depth conversations with the killers.
Jason Ross
A through and through western revenge drama. Being filmed in 2010 do we expect more than we do from a classic like Hang 'Em High? Yes we do, and the film is lacking Clint Eastwood. Nonetheless taken at face value it's an hour and 30 minutes of overwrought entertainment. The woman protagonist who's family has been murdered, of course learns gun craft in less than the time it takes to bake a cake. Nice 20th century coins in the poker scene, BTW. The sheriff is a decent actor and gives the movie a bit of character, the bounty hunter is a stern father figure but is reaching. Almost all else is stilted and seems forced to a greater or lesser extent. Anyway, "bottles don't shoot back"..
mikemdp
Not sure what makes this Western genre offering from The Asylum so surprisingly decent. My guess is pure mathematics. When it doesn't have to spend money on special effects from bargain-basement CGI house Tiny Juggernaut, The Asylum can devote those same dollars to scriptwriting, direction and location scenery.This is essentially a mockbuster of the new "True Grit," with Barry Van Dyke unconvincing in the Jeff Bridges role and cutie pie nobody Sage Mears in the Hailee Steinfeld part, rewritten here as an alcoholic milf who hires Van Dyke to help her seek revenge against the bad guys who raped her and murdered her husband and children.It's not his fault, but Barry looks so much like his father Dick, it's hard to take him seriously as a rough bounty hunter. You half expect him to burst into "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" in every scene.And because he must have some sort of contract that says he appears in every third Asylum movie, Greg Evigan shows up as an old, fat, useless sheriff who only serves to remind us baby boomers how old, fat and useless we've gotten since "My Two Dads" too.It's true the weaponry here is anachronistic and the money shown in the poker game scene is too modern. And yeah, pretty much every cowboy in this movie rides his horse like it's the first time he's ever been on one. But really, even the most authentic of Westerns have always been revisionist fantasies. The Asylum isn't asking too much when requiring we take this one with an extra grain of salt.Why? Because ultimately, it works. For some reason, "6 Guns" works as a whole to create a harmless cowboy flick that's better than you would expect from the king of direct-to-DVD cheese. After all, this is the company that gave us "Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus," so I think we need to count the few blessings The Asylum throws us.
