Counting Bullets

The landscape was rugged, beautiful, and made a perfect background for the men who struggled for their lives.

I started watching this and became intrigued. Good scenes in the fort, and as a veteran I knew guys who were often in trouble - drunk too, usually - but had combat service records to be proud of and depended upon.

Michael Estridge was a good green officer and did a fine job of acting as such.

And then the surprise/shock of who "the Indians" were ... rather like Jaws not being horribly discovered until well into the film.

The weapons looked to be of accurate vintage, although in one of the final scenes Lt. Lowe was shot at point-blank and somehow missed. (This *can* happen, but it didn't help screen credibility.) And as others have observed, the location was as unsparingly glaring as it was beautiful.

And no, I'm not related to the production company. :-) A decent flick.

I'm not a relative nor was I paid to leave a "good" review. I am someone who understands this particular genre and style of movie making. It's not a multi-million dollar production. It was meant to be the product of artists working with a limited budget and it works in that perspective.

The acting is good (great in some parts) and not so good in others but always worth watching. The scenes of the trapped cavalry and the desperate situation they were in was well staged, well acted and the shots were well directed.

If you want Big Jake or Stagecoach, go see them. I enjoy these movies for what they are. Many, like this one, are a collaboration of artists working together to make something worth watching.

Wow, this movie was horrible, at first I thought it was a farce, like a mock comedy western, but it was quickly apparent that not much time was taken into the making of this film.

The actors are horrible, the physical acting is unbearable to watch and cringeworthy. The actors characters/lines are barely put together and lack depth.

Where's the action?

This film is well done. The scenes are impressive. The characters understandable, and the whole show is believable.