Gunslingers

Saw Gunslingers. In a world where horrible modern day movies like Novocaine and Death of a Unicorn exist, Gunslingers is a much needed friend, an old school Western/Action shoot em up with sibling rivalry plot lines and a hilarious and awesome NICOLAS CAGE performance. You may ask why the negative mainstream reviews? That's because they don't respect B action films. They'll only sell you the latest Timothee Chamalet drek. If you can appreciate the efforts of a small film giving it their all, you'll enjoy this film. Sure, it's not perfect but you can appreciate it, flaws and all. Kudos to Lionsgate for delivering these films to the community of action lovers.

This action-heavy Western is among the worst films I have ever seen. If it was not for my sorely tested allegiance to Nicolas Cage, my favorite actor, I would never have watched five minutes of this. Alas!

This is honestly one of his worst performances, although it might work for you if you are only in it for the memes. He's doing an indescribabe voice, that somehow manages to be raspy, high-pitched, and squeaky. He wears bizarre folk rock costumes costumes and speaks nonsensical lines like, "There's fire in Hell, Mary! Haaaaawwwwwt fiiiiiiire!" Pretty sure his character has somehow already discovered cocaine, but Cage is barely in this, so don't get too carried away!

The action is made nearly incomprehensible by horrendous editing. I slowed an early gunfight down to 1/4 speed to try to discern what had occurred, but I was still left at a loss. The camera breaks the 180 degree rule constantly, even during gunfights where a person is shown firing their weapon in one direction followed by a cut to someone reeling backwards in the same direction the shot just came from! It's really that bad!

The writers appear to have written this in a drunken haze. Nothing is reasonable or compelling. The numbers thrown out, for example, are completely implausible. There's a posse of one-hundred men coming! There's a reward of $100,000 for one man dead or alive! You get the idea.

The film also looks terrible. Like honestly one of the worst-looking films I have ever seen. I'm not sure what they did, but it looks like they shot in with an old digital camera and the brights from their cars. I can appreciate a dingy look, but this is like a throwback to the straight-to-video era.

I am trying to decide whether I should thank Cage for giving me someone interesting to watch in a film full of lightweight actors straight from the extra pool, or send him hate mail for making me suffer through dredge like this when I know he has films like Longlegs and Dream Scenario still in him. He must enjoy having the creative freedom as an actor that performing in these terrible low-budget films gets him. But, come on dude! Haven't your fans suffered enough!

At least the Madden biopic is coming!

I like westerns. I could say I watched them all. There were a load of bad ones over the years. Shalako and Soleil Rouge could be compared because those are somewhat weird too but have decent (great) actors. So those westerns got above 5 stars. This one however is a disgrace to all westerns and I am so sorry for all those actors who put their career in jeopardy appearing in this and hope they all were well compensated. Cage will be ok, I fear for Stallone though. This guy made already other westerns and you would think he would learn from mistakes.

I actually fail to understand why anyone could rate this 5 or more stars. 3 stars feels high already. It is really difficult to continue watching. The whole story could be told in 5 sentences.

Story: Poor. While I think the idea of the town "Redemption" and how it is run could have been exploited to make a much better story around it, but the general red line in this movie had no real surprises and everything happened exactly as expected.

Music: Music in westerns is important. It does not have to be Ennio Morricone, but it has to match the setting. It did not.

Landscape: This western is not much dusty, which is ok. It is pretty green. Nice landscape. Too much shots against the sun. Those pictures are good but this should be an action movie and not nature documentary. Disturbes the pace of the movie.

Costumes: Too clean. Feels like a TV show and not like a movie.

Acting: I actually think they really tried and those actors were all good, but either there was no directing at all or they just always took the first take. Cage character is a joke and seems he didn't care much. Dorff did good but at some point he seemed bored as well sometimes. Others probably did not get any feedback on how/what they are doing.

Dialogues: Half of them were not necessary (not even language set in 1907) but then the movie would have taken 25 minutes if some unnecessary action scenes would be dropped too.

Shooting: All action scenes were poor. The cuts were ok but angles didn't work out and if someone got shot it was either in the heart or it was a full miss. The pistols were nice and you could recognize some of them, some of the rifles even had an accurate sound. They could also count to six in this movie, so it was not all total nonsense. While the movie takes place in 1903-1907 they however talk about a cartridge invented in 1935.

Humour: None. There were no funny dialogues or funny szenes at all. Unless you could laugh about the movie in general.

Not worth to watch twice and not recommended. Watch a western of the 50ies or 60ies you haven't seen yet and you'll be entertained more.

I am a big fan of gritty westerns which is what this looked like in the trailers, but it is deinitely not. Within 10 minutes I realized the acting was pretty bad. There were moments of believabilty in the characters but mostly seemed like none of them were rehearsed professionals. I really blame the directing that made the whole story predictable and plodding. The effects were on par with 1970's films; bright red blood, punching sounds. By far the worst I've ever seen of Nicholas Cage. His characterization was ridiculous. So, I gave it 2 stars only because I didn't have pay to see it in a theater.

It's trash. Anyone who says it's good is literally lying just because they glaze Nicolas Cage.

The movie is literally a (try not to quit) challenge. It struggles a lot. The editing and the way some of the clips are put together feels like something from a director who's just starting out, like one of those indie projects you'd find on YouTube, but with a much higher budget. Some of the costumes look a little cheap and unpolished.

I was excited for this! But this is honestly the weakest western I've ever watched. Give the movie a chance if you wanna laugh at how off it is, but if you're watching for pure enjoyment, I'd probably stay away.