Numerootno
A story that's too fascinating to pass by...
Cody
One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
Dana
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
adonis98-743-186503
Legendary lawman and gunslinger, Wild Bill Hickok, is tasked with taming the wildest cow-town in the west. While delivering his own brand of frontier justice, the infamous gunfighter's reputation as the fastest draw in the west is put to the test. Chris Hemsworth is main star league, Liam Hemsworth? he is more of a secondary league but Luke Hemsworth? Is probably no league. This movie had no charisma, nothing was going on and why in the hell were Kris Kristofferson and Bruce Dern in here? Oh i know why because the paycheck was probably good. (F)
Ben James
WOW - some harsh words here from what I must assume are disappointed fans.
Some reviews are almost hateful!
But in all honesty this film is not that bad by a long stretch. It has some great moments for sure and some great shootout and fights. Yes I will agree it does fall flat in some places or feel somewhat unfinished in others and at the half way point I did consider stopping the movie and moving on.
However I am glad I stuck with it because after a somewhat lack lustre start the movie picks up and races to a satisfying conclusion.
If you love westerns give it a shot or 2!
tpasa-1
Sometimes you take a chance on a movie you never heard of and you find a little gem. Other times, you end up wasting an hour and half of your life like you do when you watch this movie.It's rare that I watch a movie where the writing and direction is so bad that I actually looked up who the writer (Michael Lanahan) and director (Timothy Woodward Jr.) were for no other reason than to make sure I never watch anything from either of them again. It's almost like the director read the script, knew it was going to suck, then decided to see if he could one up the script by directing a jumpy movie with no flow. The writing was so bad that you could almost feel the actors not wanting to say the lines. some of the scenes were so stupid you had to actually laugh, like when the bad guys shoot up Wild Bill's house, throw a stick of dynamite in there, then when the dynamite gets thrown out by Bill, one of them goes, "We must've got him!" Sure buddy, most dead guys throw dynamite back. Then there was the rip off of Gladiator where Trace Adkins' character brings his fiance and son in for a little questioning before eventually smacking them both. The makeup person, who may have also been the director based off the ridiculous "black eye" they put on Cameron Richardson after getting smacked, seemed to want to one up the other ridiculousness by putting on a "black eye" that basically made it look like she got hit by a 2x4 across the side of her face.And who did the casting? Luke Hemsworth looks nothing like Wild Bill Hickok and I'm telling you, he's definitely the worse acting Hemsworth and that's saying something. Kris Kristofferson has a look on face in every scene like he knows he's just phoning this gig in and Trace Adkins just is not a very believable bad guy. Maybe it's those commercials he does for Wounded Warrior. It's hard to take him as a bad guy and he doesn't have the acting chops to pull it off.Bruce Dern? His yellow teeth were the best part of his role. He was also involved in one the dumbest scenes of the movie and that's saying something. Hickok tries to distract the kid (who was randomly shot when some guys come into town shooting their guns) by telling him some dumb story while Dern (the doctor) takes a bullet. It might have made more sense if the doctor actually took the bullet out while the kld was being distracted but no, he waits until the story is over and then the kids screams in agony as the idiot takes out the bullet.Want to know why the movie gets two stars vs one? There's a nice sunset scene with a train in the beginning that fools the viewer into thinking this movie might be decent, but alas, it's mirage as you soon enough will be inundated with dialog a 10-year old might write for his school play. Oh, and there's a nice side boob scene with Cameron Richardson. That's about it!
generationofswine
I'm sorry, the movie has talent behind it. It also has talent familiar with westerns.But the direction stinks and the entire film in hampered by poor production values.It looks not unlike a movie of the week, if the movie of the week had half the budget of a single episode of a reality TV show.Here and there you can spot a clever lighting trick, something that adds a little bit of beauty, a little bit of photographic excellence. But those moments are few and far between, and even then you can tell that they were giving all they could with next to nothing.The sets just looked cheap, especially if you're watching it on a TV with any real resolution.Even the blood looked cheap and fake.The best thing this movie could have done was work in the shadows, make it dingy and dark in an effort to hide how cheap it all is.instead, it went for decent lighting, and unfortunately, that didn't hide as much as it should have.
