How many great westerns have you watched & can remember the soundtrack theme ? Almost every great western uncannily has a great soundtrack... this films music is well made & from a talented composer, yet is utterly forgettable while also often intrusive & overblown.
This is certainly one of the worst 'westerns' I've ever seen.
(after seeing 300+ Spaghetti/Euro & many 100's of American ones)
I am only reviewing it here as a warning to others who love Spaghetti/Euro Westerns (which this film is a drab imitation of), classic westerns ...& films in general !
This film is the dregs... an overload in stupidity, that could have been entertaining if it wasn't so utterly humorless & predictable. I only sat through it to test my endurance levels & grimace at the dire script, which is seemingly written by a person trapped in a world of z-grade cartoon fantasies & TV trash.
The idea for this film is another RESCUE mission with a bit of bounty hunting & revenge thrown in. It has been done many hundreds of times already, and there is nothing original in this film to add to anything, despite its lesbian arch enemy played by an almost incomprehensible Juliette Lewis. I had to put sub titles on to comprehend what anyone was mumbling during this.
Nothing about it is memorable apart from its incredible unbelievability, & poor filmatic choices. The Direction is bland, the characters rubbish, even Dinklage's, which had some promise at first.
Compare this films to any of the Spaghetti Western 'gems' from 1964-74 (ish) . The Great Silence, California, Four of the Apocalypse, for example, which all have similarities with this film yet ultimately they are different creatures.
This may all seem like a personal/subjective dismissal reliant on simply my TASTE in films, although if you consider the ridiculous events in the opening scenes my disgruntlement should be universal for discerning movie-viewers.
Here are the notes I made of unbelievable stupidity in the film-
1- daft girl stands unmoving in the middle of the road, while a motorbike drives at speed straight towards her from over a distance of about half a mile.
2- the Motorbike can drive at speed on SNOW & ICE !
3- Barge-keepers don't maintain or check their equipment. Have no weapons for defence. Have a single strand , thin rope for barge pulling.
4- Barge puller continues trying to wind the rope while a stand-off is occurring.
5-The grandfather allows a vicious gang to approach his family & tells them they will have to wait until he's used the barge .
6- Granddad pulls a gun on the gang leader who he knows has a vicious reputation....
...then he shoots at the leader of gang while her back is turned.
...and misses from a few feet, only skimming her ear.
7- She isn't deafened by the shot.
8-He puts his gun down, then says he isn't armed while she shoots him.
9- The boy tries to stop a lynch mob... & gets knocked out.
10-Town Boss provokes a fight over $1
11- Sends gang after Dinklage over a deserved humiliation knowing how skilled Dinklage is.
12- Dinklage & mate are short of money, yet leave a horse after killing its rider.
13- The F-WORD swearing is tiresome, unimaginative & unrealistic , people never swore like that until later in the 20th C .
Better curses could have been used without needing to resort to that DEADWOOD tactic of anachronistic EFFECT over FACT.
14- The stupid kidnapped girl can't fire a gun at point blank range to shoot the gang leader that killed her grand-dad & (as far as she knows) her brother.
There's more, but the BROTHEL RESCUE scene is possibly the most preposterous. Looking back on it, there are so many stylish ways it could have been done by a skilled film maker & script. Instead the idiot Christian Hypocrite protagonist takes her through the main bar area & tries to walk out of the main doors !
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