NekoHomey
Purely Joyful Movie!
Solidrariol
Am I Missing Something?
Keeley Coleman
The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
McQualude
Dead in Tombstone (yes that Tombstone, as in OK Corral) has Mickey Rourke, Danny Trejo, Dina Meyer, and Anthony Michael Hall; so someone might be tempted to watch it because of them but just swallow that temptation and don't. I'm guessing they agreed to this in lieu of paying gambling debts. They put about as much effort into "Tombstone" as they might asking for a donut. Except Danny Trejo who is all in, probably because this movie gives him more dialog than all his other movies combined and you'll soon figure out why those other movies were right and this one is wrong. If you are really curious what it is about, Danny Trejo leads a group of outlaws that double cross him for gold. (the real Tombstone had a silver mine, not gold, but whatever) Mickey Rourke plays Satan and gets a lot of bad lines which he delivers with mild boredom. A.M. Hall is the "bad" bad guy. Dina Meyer is the sheriff's wife. About the only notable thing about D.i.T. is that bodies just disappear from the shot moments after people are killed, it's so obvious it's bizarre. There is no reason as far as I could tell other than sloppy movie making.
bowmanblue
'Dead in Tombstone' is about an outlaw, Danny Trejo, who gets doublecrossed by his gang and murdered, only to find himself out of the frying pan and into the fiery depths of hell himself. However, not wanting to spend the rest of eternity having his skin ripped off by the devil (aka Mickey Rourke), he makes a bargain to deliver the souls of the gang who murdered him. Not wanting to get into the reason why the devil agrees to this (baring in mind he's immortal and therefore could simply choose to wait until the gang dies before collecting their souls that way). But, anyway, the devil grants Trejo a day to shoot them all dead and deliver their souls.If you've seen the advertising, you may notice that Mickey Rourke - naturally - second billing, suggesting he's in it equally as much as Danny Trejo. However, he is sadly very underused. Fans of his may need to know he's not in it as much as the advertising may suggest he is.There's no shortage of action in the film, all of which is surprisingly stylishly directed. However, the uber-quick editing may annoy some people after the millionth cut. It's basically a revenge-western with a small helping of supernatural added into it when the plot requires as such. There may not be a 'romance element' to the film, but that doesn't stop Dina Meyer getting herself kidnapped every chance she gets.It's not a bad film. Everything is okay and yet never seems to spill over to either 'really good' or 'really bad.' It could well be the most 'on the fence' movie ever made. If you like Danny Trejo, you should enjoy this, however, like I say, Mickey Rouke fans may be left-short-changed.
Michael O'Keefe
Saddle up or strap it down! Roel Reine directs this rough and raw romp of cowboy greed and revenge. If you can't get what you want, don't just stand there and bitch about it. A ruthless outlaw gang takes over a small mining town; and when it comes time to decide on the division of a fortune in gold, the leader, Guerrero(Danny Trejo), is murdered in a gang bang of bullets led by his own half brother Red Cavanhaugh(Anthony Michael Hall). Red renames the town Tombstone and his gang rules with fear and a heavy hand. Guerrero doesn't languish in hell too long before he meets Blacksmith/Satan(Mickey Rourke)and strikes a deal. If he goes back to Tombstone and kills the rest of his former gang single handed; he escapes a lifetime of sharing hell with Blacksmith.Some strange, but impressive camera work and plenty of action when the half brothers go against each other. Bloody bullets and carnage galore. Trejo and Hall are excellent. Rourke is absolutely outstanding. The beautiful Dina Meyer shines as the sheriff's widow. Rounding out the cast: Richard Dillane, Emil Hostina, Edward Akrout, Radu Andrei Micu, Ovidlu Niculescu and James Carroll Jordan.
zardoz-13
"Dead in Tombstone" is a rewarding western fantasy shoot'em up with Danny Trejo as a murdered outlaw and Mickey Rourke as Satan. This imaginative oater is blood splattered and sprinkled with nudity. Anthony Michael Hall is cast as Danny's half-brother; according to Hall, they shared the same mother. "Death Race 2" director Roel Reiné and scenarists Brendan Cowles and Shane Kuhn have contrived a thoroughly formulaic sagebrusher with something in common with the Clint Eastwood western "High Plains Drifter." As the chieftain of the Blackwater Outlaw Gang, Guerrero (Danny Trejo of "Con-Air") and his gunslingers rescue half-brother Red Cavanaugh (Anthony Micahel Hall) from the gallows and he tells them about a western town where a legal dispute has occurred involving a mine filled with gold. The sheriff of Edendale confiscates the gold and locks it up in his office vault. Guerrero, Red, and the Blackwater gang ride into town. Red double-crosses Guerrero and turns his gang against him. They blast him to smithereens in a saloon, and he wakes up in Hell where he persuades the Blacksmith (Mickey Rourke of "The Expendables") to let him return to Earth and harvest the souls of his treacherous half-brother and his reprobate gang so he can secure his release from Hell. In one scene straight out of "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," our mustached anti-hero assembles a gun and blows his adversary away. The CGI special efforts are pretty seamless for this straight-to-video hellraiser that features better than average production values and good cinematography. Trejo is appropriately gnarly.