I like a good revenge story, I also enjoy an atmospheric tale about the wild west. What I don't like is being conned by pretentious cinematography and overly 'earnest' acting.
This film has all the ingredients required for the makers to congratulate themselves around the table at a dinner party... but has gaping holes through which the audience find little hope of finding entertainment.
'Revenge' stories are difficult to set up. The trick being to make the 'baddies' rotten, but believable. The 'baddies' in this set up, are cliché ridden, and the 'goodie' is skillful, clever and grossly incompetent all at the same time. In short... the set up is irritatingly implausible.
Good actors then engage in a roundabout of 'serious' stereotypical mugging. and the 'ending' of the film becomes obvious in the first 20 minutes.
It's not that it's a bad film... it's that it is a 'project'. The sort of film that we can say we've seen... but only in hope that someone will think we are film buffs, as a result.
The set up is preposterous. The manipulated sense of evil is absurd.
Quite what Eric Cantona is doing in it is beyond me. I like him... but he has made better adverts than this.
This film has all the ingredients required for the makers to congratulate themselves around the table at a dinner party... but has gaping holes through which the audience find little hope of finding entertainment.
'Revenge' stories are difficult to set up. The trick being to make the 'baddies' rotten, but believable. The 'baddies' in this set up, are cliché ridden, and the 'goodie' is skillful, clever and grossly incompetent all at the same time. In short... the set up is irritatingly implausible.
Good actors then engage in a roundabout of 'serious' stereotypical mugging. and the 'ending' of the film becomes obvious in the first 20 minutes.
It's not that it's a bad film... it's that it is a 'project'. The sort of film that we can say we've seen... but only in hope that someone will think we are film buffs, as a result.
The set up is preposterous. The manipulated sense of evil is absurd.
Quite what Eric Cantona is doing in it is beyond me. I like him... but he has made better adverts than this.