Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

eventmarketing There's a reason why you've never heard of this movie despite it starring four notable Hollywood names. Just so bad and nonsensical. Only reason I gave it three stars was cuz i'm a sucker for westerns...it deserves about 1.5. Actually, probably less given the limited action in the action scenes...

thecode-07392 Yeah, I hated it. The script is pathetic. Yelling, incidentally, does not equal acting.

sergelamarche It is kind of a joke but not all that funny. It's more like a kid version of the far west. The guys in this are all a bit sissy. Several reactions are literally not natural. It makes us think though that in real life, the far west might have been more like this than tough guys films we usually see. This film has violence and blood but not over the top à la Tarantino. Girls have funny roles. The whole what somewhat enjoyable. It was not as offbeat as I would have liked, in fact.

sddavis63 It's intriguing that I found this to be an interesting movie, considering that for the most part I thought it had some difficulty trying to establish what it wanted to be. Certainly it's a western - gunfights and horses and a marshal. It often feels as though it wants to be a comedy. The scenes with the drunken preacher wanting to "save" the town of Denton were humorous, as was a lot of the interplay between the various characters. It's most certainly a revenge story. Paul (Ethan Hawke) is out for blood after the killing of his beloved dog. And don't forget the dog. One of the cutest dogs and most talented dogs you'll ever come across in a movie - it upset me when she was killed partway through. So this is going in a lot of different directions all at once, and yet ... it does work. It's not great. It's not going to win an Oscar. But it works.Hawke was good in his role. He was believable as the lonely drifter seeking revenge after his faithful companion was taken from him for no particular reason. James Ransone as his main adversary Gilly didn't hit home quite as well with me. He was all right. I was more taken with John Travolta as the marshal - who also happened to be Gilly's father. I've seen some criticism of him - suggestions that he was miscast - but I thought he handled the part pretty well, and to be honest I was sympathetic to his character. He didn't do anything. He let Paul off the hook when he could have taken him in after he and Gilly got into a fight to start the whole thing. He told his son and his buddies not to go after Paul - and he wasn't happy when they defied him and did it anyway. He didn't deserve his fate.It's not a lavish movie. The sets are pretty barebones - and the opening credits were bizarre. They reminded me of the opening credits of a 1960's TV show somehow and kind of lowered my expectations from the start of what I should expect. But the movie exceeded those expectations once it got started. I also appreciated that in the end there was no attempt to introduce a romance into the story. Had there been one it surely would have been between Paul and Mary Anne (Taissa Farmiga.) The problem would have been that Mary Anne was supposed to be 16 years old. I suppose in the context of the Old West a romance between them wouldn't have been shocking - but given the current climate in Hollywood, it's probably best that the movie didn't go in that direction. This just turned out to be a pretty decent and interesting movie. (6/10)