In this movie I saw at least 10 great character actors whom I've seen in other movies, and their previous movies were pretty good.. when I read the cast-list for this movie I thought: "WOW, MAN!...this ROCKS!" - so I decided to see this so-called "Exciting Western"... And boy, was I disappointed...words cannot express my feelings of misery after watching this completely meaningless carnage... All these excellent actors, with all that potential, and what are they given?... a handful of cliché-lines, and then getting shot - usually some place where blood can spurt out in gallons, so there's something for the gorehounds!
Well, Mickey Rourke (Angel Heart) did a nice enough job...he portrayed their heinous criminal gang-leader very well, and did all he could do with this generic "Ten Little Indians"-inspired script..
Dermot Mulroney (Young Guns) as the second-in-command was somewhat decent in this role too...very sympathetic guy. Steve Buscemi (Reservoir Dogs) ...aw, man... my favorite actor in this semistar-studded cast... I thought his character had some interesting background-information (wearing the army hat and rambling about their previous adventures), but we never really get a chance to know his character before he "exits" (it was fairly obvious, as soon as he started to talk about his "Hacienda" and his future plans, etc).
Keith David (The Thing), plays a seemingly cool guy, but suddenly he turns crazy for some reason, I didn't understand what the hell happened to him... the movie had this sense of "mystery" throughout, as though Rourke's character had supernatural abilities.... Not quite "The Quick and the Dead", but more like "The Superfast and the Soon-to-be-Dead".
John C. McGinley (Scrubs), I've always liked this guy...but he doesn't make sense in this movie either.. why does he have to be a 'knife-man'... when he NEVER even uses the knife for anything, other than accidentally cutting himself...and the 'traitor'-part...money out of the window? Such a stupid script.. All the others are great actors, but they're all totally wasted in this feeble adventure... the sheriff, the banker, the possé, EVERYONE gets it...except...well, you figure it out for yourself.
Other great actors in this flick: Ted Levine (Silence of the Lambs), Daniel Quinn (Scanner Cop), Gavan O'Herlihy (Lonesome Dove), Richard Fancy (Seinfeld), Paul Ben-Victor (Tombstone), and many more!
But in some sense, I still liked it, because of the great locations, and some good scenes (where people die, of course)... They probably won't make a sequel to this, but a PREQUEL would certainly kick more ass than this did! A movie where the gang of these intriguing characters go berserk and raid banks and stuff, and how we get to see their development, etc.
I orginally gave this 5/10, but will up the rating to 7/10 because....well, because I liked the cast, and gore is always somewhat entertaining.. and cowboys are so rugged and cool!
Well, Mickey Rourke (Angel Heart) did a nice enough job...he portrayed their heinous criminal gang-leader very well, and did all he could do with this generic "Ten Little Indians"-inspired script..
Dermot Mulroney (Young Guns) as the second-in-command was somewhat decent in this role too...very sympathetic guy. Steve Buscemi (Reservoir Dogs) ...aw, man... my favorite actor in this semistar-studded cast... I thought his character had some interesting background-information (wearing the army hat and rambling about their previous adventures), but we never really get a chance to know his character before he "exits" (it was fairly obvious, as soon as he started to talk about his "Hacienda" and his future plans, etc).
Keith David (The Thing), plays a seemingly cool guy, but suddenly he turns crazy for some reason, I didn't understand what the hell happened to him... the movie had this sense of "mystery" throughout, as though Rourke's character had supernatural abilities.... Not quite "The Quick and the Dead", but more like "The Superfast and the Soon-to-be-Dead".
John C. McGinley (Scrubs), I've always liked this guy...but he doesn't make sense in this movie either.. why does he have to be a 'knife-man'... when he NEVER even uses the knife for anything, other than accidentally cutting himself...and the 'traitor'-part...money out of the window? Such a stupid script.. All the others are great actors, but they're all totally wasted in this feeble adventure... the sheriff, the banker, the possé, EVERYONE gets it...except...well, you figure it out for yourself.
Other great actors in this flick: Ted Levine (Silence of the Lambs), Daniel Quinn (Scanner Cop), Gavan O'Herlihy (Lonesome Dove), Richard Fancy (Seinfeld), Paul Ben-Victor (Tombstone), and many more!
But in some sense, I still liked it, because of the great locations, and some good scenes (where people die, of course)... They probably won't make a sequel to this, but a PREQUEL would certainly kick more ass than this did! A movie where the gang of these intriguing characters go berserk and raid banks and stuff, and how we get to see their development, etc.
I orginally gave this 5/10, but will up the rating to 7/10 because....well, because I liked the cast, and gore is always somewhat entertaining.. and cowboys are so rugged and cool!