Red Stone

Wow, just wow. This movie was a complete waste of time. I was expecting it to slowly build it up for the ending, but NO. Sat through the whole thing, to see... That. Sloppy writing, horribly directed, bad pacing - real amateur hour. Damn shame for McDonough, though. Man can act really well, and at times I saw he tried, but the writing just wasn't there to make it work.

I suggest you skip this one, watch something else.

So found this one along and thought it looked like a modern western and it has one of my favorite actors in Michael Cudlitz - Shout out to Gross Point Blank- McDonough is always fun as a baddie.

POSITIVES; The cinematography was awesome. It was gritty and had a weird red vibe. It was old school with long shots and let the actors act. The sparse action scenes were cool and the f/x were solid and old school. This was definitely a love letter to old gangster films. The acting for the most part was great. Loved the Hutch role. Billy Blare was awesome.

NEGATIVES; It was billed as an action film. An article I saw said it was a western film too. It is not either. There is action in it and it was made in Texas, I think. But it's not a western. It's closer to a dixie mafia type film. Or like Justified without the action.

I didn't like the music. I appreciate what they were doing but it wasn't my favorite.

The film moves slow and that's okay for some people. But I think the way the movie preview made it look, some will think it's more action.

Overall really cool little gangster film. Some gritty moments too.

7/10.

I was surprised to watch BOON and then this one to discover that the same actor played the very same character, what a coincidence. This is an agreeable action flick with an ambivalent lead hero, as the same character will be in the sequel BOON. But the ending of this one seems to be the actual sequel and not the sequel which on the contrary seems to be the prequel...Follow me? Good directing, and as I said for the other film, don't be too hard with this kind of production, it s smooth and not without a certain charm, a B rural western thriller, action thriller. I will get tired of this kind of stuff.

OK, the good points:

1) great camera work 2) good music 3) some great actors

the bad points:

A) shockingly poor story B) totally unbelievable characters C) WAY too slow D) simply nothing to get invested in.

How on earth did something this bad every raise the budget to get made?

Who makes this stuff?!

Low budget amateur hour effort from people who should have known better.

I just can't believe it.

These people should stick to whatever they were doing before they decided to make movies because they sure don't seem to have the talent for this field.

An absolute embarrassment.