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Starts slow, putters along, then falls apart completely when the writers run out of ideas and resort to sheer hackneyed sadism, where the characters make every wrong decision. Then there's more sadism and then more and before you know it you're wondering how this thing got made. Then you fish around and learn that the actress's mother directed The Piano, which explains some part of the thing's genesis but not all of it. If u haven't rented this, don't because it's so bad it's frustrating as hell. The acting ain't bad, the actress is cute enough, but the script is abysmal and the directing lacking. Run.

This was simply awful. It's nigh impossible to take the entertainment phenomenon of the century and make it virtually unwatchable, but Opie has done that. This thing is such a mountain of overviewed uninspiring footage that you have to think Howard was making a last grasp for guilt by association hipness. It was just shockingly bad, nothing unique or insightful or worth watching. The only new footage was of the wpvi tv anchor, Larry, can I sit her, Kane. That was interesting. But three anecdotes do not a documentary make. Every single anecdote, clip, interview has been seen endless times. And to try to goose it up with a few meaningless cut aways to forgettable modern industry wannabes, including the dreadful arrogant Whoopi Goldberg (the very emblem of cultural appropriation), does nothing for it. Deeply disappointed.

How do u take a solid Elmore Leonard novel and jui Jitsu it into an awful Hollywood cliche? Well watch this movie and you'll learn. The screenplay writers took a good book and reworked it to add every stupid Indian movie trope. This thing had everything but a singing cowboy. Despite that, there are one or two good scenes. But it's an overall disaster from the puffed up hairdo's to the 11th hour bad guy requested parley where the good guys cite the marquess of queensbury rules and refuse to kill the lead murderer when he's standing right in front of them. Paul Newman could have made this watchable, instead he's given the star treatment and it just gets worse from there. Watch Valdez is Coming. Now that's a western. Thank you.