Writer and director Brett Bentman was on the right track here with the 2022 Western movie titled "The Bounty Men".
However, while the storyline was interesting enough, it just felt that there was something lacking from it. The movie was a bit too mundane and slow paced, and sort of lulls you into a stupor. Writer Brett Bentman just didn't spruce up the storyline with enough events to make it a particularly thrilling or action-packed Western. A shame really, because there was certainly potential to the storyline.
The movie have a relatively small cast ensemble, and it works out well enough because the actors and actresses are fair at portraying their characters on the screen. It was nice, though, to see Tom Zembrod in the movie.
There is a good atmosphere to the movie, because it definitely felt like a Western movie. Nice sets, nice wardrobes, nice props and all that. However, one thing did puzzle me, and that was why no one caught the fact that they had reversed some of the footage, because as the Bounty Man was riding through the small town, the signs on the buildings were shown reversed.
If you are a hardcore fan of the Western genre, then I believe there is something to be enjoyed here. I, however, am just a casual viewer visiting the Western genre once in a while, so I didn't find "The Bounty Men" to be a particularly outstanding movie. Sure, it was watchable, but it was a bit too uneventful and slow paced for my liking. So this is most likely a Western that will just slowly fade into the mists of oblivion and never come out to be seen a second time.
My rating of "The Bounty Men" lands on a four out of ten stars, mostly because there just wasn't enough happening in the narrative to keep the movie all that enjoyable and entertaining.
