User reviews

I enjoyed the movie. The cast is fantastic, featuring Brandon Lessard, Samuel L. Jackson, Pierce Brosnan, and Veronica Ferres. The plot follows a classic Western theme where a son seeks revenge for his father's hanging by a corrupt sheriff. However, it includes some intriguing twists and well-rounded characters. There's no clear-cut villain; everyone has their own justified motives. I particularly liked the character development of young Henry Broadway (Brandon Lessard), who is innocently drawn into the adventure and faces constant moral dilemmas. Samuel L. Jackson's portrayal of the dubious St. Christopher is also a standout.

The film's setting in Montana is stunning, with innovative camerawork in the fight scenes. It has some humorous moments and isn't overly violent. While the story has minor plot holes and some characters develop (too) quickly and make irrational choices, these don't detract significantly from the overall experience. Some critics mentioned the varied "dialects" due to the international cast, but the movie explains each character's background well enough. Considering the diverse immigrant population in the 1870s West, this aspect feels authentic and isn't a dealbreaker.

Thoroughly enjoyed this film, set in stunning Montana in the 1880s. Well cast characters who bring their own backgrounds to the story and add to the authenticity of a young USA still developing. I especially appreciated that the actors and actresses used their own natural accents to emphasise that the USA back then was even more a land of immigrants than it is now, with no homogenised American accent, so Veronica Ferres spoke with her own German accent, Pierce Brosnan with his Irish brogue and Samuel L Jackson with his deep south accent.

The story line made sense with interesting twists and turns to keep the audience paying attention, with enough humour to lighten the load, and violence to keep people alert.

All in all a very good film.

I know it is matter of taste, however if be fair this movie does not earn more than 3*

Probably Samuel L Jackson has far more the best performance from the rest of the main characters, however as the story was very badly executed (although the story was not too bad), he could also not able to save the film. I really do not want to be very harsh, therefore I'll not mention about the performance of the rest of the casting crew.

Other problem was that the dialect of English. Of course except Pierce Brosnan, Samuel L. Jackson and Brandon Lessard, dialect was terrible. I had never have a feeling any part of the movie that they shot this film in USA, although knowing that location was at Rocky Mountains, however because of the lack of quality of the costumes and dialect you feel like location was somewhere in Europe or England.

Picture quality was also not good especially there were some shootings where you can see easily the corruption of the color in the sky.

I'm terribly sorry to write this above, however this is as it is from my side. If someone likes this movie, I'm fine with that as said it is matter of taste.

Cheers,

Hope Zurich/Switzerland.