Honra Entre Ladrões

Normally I am not one that is particularly keen on Western movies, as it tends to be far in between good ones that manage to entertain me. But as luck would have it, I had the opportunity to sit down and watch the 2021 movie "Honor Among Thieves", so I did.

Now, I wasn't really harboring much of any expectations to writer Jason Watson and director Brett Bentman's movie, as I had never heard about it prior to getting sit down to watch it. But hey, at least the writer and director had every opportunity to win me over here.

Turns out that "Honor Among Thieves" was just a generic Western movie. While the intentions might have been the driving force behind the movie, the end result was a subpar experience. The storyline was just a bit too bland for me, and it didn't really have much of any excitement or enjoyment to it. And the character gallery in the movie was about as interesting as tumbleweed bouncing by in the wind.

Sure, they had managed to get a believable enough atmosphere to the movie, but the lack of an interesting storyline just made the movie feel prolonged and it was an ordeal to sit through it to the end.

The acting in the movie was fairly wooden and rigid, lacking proper commitment most of the times. So it never really felt natural as the actors and actresses trotted along throughout a bland and generic script and dialogue.

The 2021 movie "Honor Among Thieves" is a movie that came and went without any lasting impression or anything. This movie was highly forgettable as it was so incredibly mundane.

My rating of "Honor Among Thieves" lands on a three out of ten stars.

The story had possibilities but the implementation of it was very weak. Actors were rather wooden and the action fragmented - by this I mean events occurred with little or no continuity in first of all the time line and secondly in setting the story in what was supposed to be in different parts of the USA or Mexico but the countryside looked surprisingly identical regardless of where we were led to believe the events were supposedly taking place.

One more point: the bar counter must have been the cleanest, most polished one in the entire country! Surely there was something else that the barman could found to do when he wasn't pouring a drink?

I am a fan of westerns. I am always ready to check out independent westerns and I also have to admit not being able to stay long with some of them since these is clear lack of experience in the acting and some other elements. I am often pleasantly surprised to find some that are pretty good and have actors with experience who know what they are doing. This the second surprise in a few days. The other one being named Scalped. This one shows very good acting from participant who have a respectable amount of experience. A message to those whose movies I had to bail out of, keep working at it since experience is the best teacher.

Lots to enjoy in this flick. Well directed, well acted and just an all around good story. Unfortunate cover art, because it looks like Luis Guzman, so I almost passed this up several times thinking it was a comedy (no offense to Luis Guzman, he's hilarious but I don't like Western comedies). Glad I took a stab and picked it up. Surprisingly good and very entertaining with a protagonist you can cheer for.

This movie questions so many of the same things I do. The girl was fantastic! All the other actors were good as well. Got a little lost midway but overall enjoyed the journey.