While it is true that in the 1890s and 1900s that the films were often very, very short and very mundane, this did not mean that films HAD to be that way--Georges Méliès and the Pathé Brothers were making some very imaginative films with scripts, sets and lots of imagination. So, by comparison, this film comes up very, very short. The film is all too brief--with some guys catching and roughing up some poachers--and that's all!! In fact, the film is so short and uninspired that I can only see it of being much value to film historians and lovers of dull films. It just SHOULD have been better in 1903 and showed that a gap between quality films and the rest was increasing at the time.
Review of The Poachers
