Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Wizard-8 It's kind of hard to believe that "Sweetwater" was an official entry in the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, given that it's not only packed with bloody violence and sexual elements, its storyline is more or less just that of another revenge western. But if you've read plenty of my other user comments, you'll know that I welcome a movie with plenty of violent and/or sexual touches. And while I have seen plenty of revenge western plots in movies, I am still open to seeing another one as long as it's done well. I will admit that in this particular telling, it does move a LOT slower than what you usually get. And there are no real surprises along the way to really shake things up and get the viewers guessing what will happen - you'll be able to predict what happens long before it does unfold. But the performances are good (Jason Isaacs makes for a great hateful villain), the movie is well produced for what had to be a real low budget, and I admit that I was not bored at any moment, even during the really slow portions. This is not a movie that will make you think, and it doesn't have any real artistic intentions, but if you are in the mood for a revenge western, it does satisfy.

Rich Wright Every good revenge thriller needs a decent villain, and Sweetwater (known as Sweet Vengeance here in good ol' England) has a great one: a thoroughly despicable, corrupt preacher who uses the cover of his profession to get away with a multitude of sins: including murder, sexual abuse, stealing... the list goes on. It's difficult to know what version of the Good Book he's studying, since I'm quite sure there are no passages advocating racism, prostitution or lying either. If he was born nowadays, he'd likely be confined to an asylum for the rest of his sorry days. But since this was the God fearing 19th century, he's seen as a pillar of the community, and is allowed to get away with his wanton criminality.Fortunately, a new sheriff has just rode in, and doesn't fall for the alleged man of the cloth's film-flammery. You see, the preacher's men have unwittingly killed two friends of his, and he wants to find out the cause of their disappearance. Meanwhile, the insane religious nutjob has got designs on a redhead farmer AND her land... and is prepared to go to any methods to grab what he believes should be rightfully his. Including of course, disposing of her Mexican husband. Unfortunately, after destroying her life, he awakens in her a monster. Let's just say Charles Bronson is about to have some competition for the highest body count...And as the predictable slaughter gets underway, you can hardly help but get involved as this irredeemable bible basher, along with his uncouth gang of reprobates, are annihilated by our wronged lady in ways which can only be described as thoroughly deserved. There has been so many contemptible things done by these miscreants up till now, that maximum satisfaction is guaranteed as they're blown to smithereens. January Jones is a marvel as the feisty focal point of the movie, and Ed Harris with Jason Isaacs offer invaluable support as the unshakeable lawman and the eminently hissable bad guy, respectably.Number one with a bullet. 6/10

Theo Robertson In 19th Century New Mexico Miguel Ramirez gets in to a feud with religious zealot Josiah . When Miguel fails to return to his home his wife Sarah suspects that Josiah may be behind her husbands disappearance This went straight to DVD in Europe which is somewhat surprising because it does contain relatively well known names in Harris , Isaacs and Jones . That said reading the comments on this page you are struck as to the number of comments that describe the film as being " funny " but I should qualify this by saying it is funny in the same way as Al Swearengen is funny in DEADWOOD because this is black comedy at its most brutal and uncompromising along with role reversal revenge fantasy and you can see why it might have been a difficult film to market It's not a very well paced film and some scenes seem to go on for too long and the fact that there's not a lot of incidental music to these scenes means they seem longer than they really are . That said it's probably the effect the director wants because SWEET VENGEANCE concerns it self with mood rather than narrative and is a very moody revenge thriller . One does notice that the cinematography is rather murky and fails to make the most of the New Mexico landscape , especially when you get the instinctive feeling that there's a subtext of man - or more specifically woman - versus nature going on there somewhere but this aspect comes over slightly confused and isn't as well developed as it could have been . Regardless of that if you enjoyed DEADWOOD then you might just enjoy this blackly comical violent Western

petarmatic This is how we like our Westerns in Europe! Lotsa guns, lotsa dead men and a prostitute who wins! Yeah baby, give it to us! The only problem is that we kinda do our own fights here in Europe with many more dead people, we kinda like to copy all that 45 caliber. Yumm! What do you say about film like that, then excellent! Acting very very good! Scenery very very good! Costumography very very good! All in all a helluva Western! Pull that 45! Many times over! ;)