Review of Joshua

Joshua (1976)
5/10
Western vengeance with unstopped pursuit starred by a king of blaxploitation, Fred Williamson
16 November 2007
Warning: Spoilers
After a savage massacre of his mother and kidnapping a girl, the black rider (Fred Williamson) , a civil war veteran , set out a personal vendetta and a rescue against a band of outlaws . He carries the vengeance in his heart and goes after the baddies in an interminable pursuit . Former rules of the code of West are dated and he's is guided by unrelenting revenge . He embarks on a bloody reckoning and during his quest helps a beautiful Mexican woman (Isela Vega). The black rider travels the Soutwestern territories and crosses paths until finding nasties .

This is an average Western revenge plenty of violence , riding chases , shootouts, grisly killings and results to be quite entertaining, in spite of some slow-moving scene s. The chief excitement lies in seeing what new and amazing victim can be executed by the revenger black rider, as the nasties are beheaded , hanged , dropped a rattle-snake or bombing by means of dynamite . With similar plot to Italian Western , whose main argument being ¨revenge¨ and likeness to ¨Chato¨ where Charles Bronson revenges , one by one , the killers his family . Displays extraordinary landscapes with glimmer cinematography like is well reflected on the breathtaking outdoors filmed in natural parks of Monument Valley . This Western with lots of action packs a boring and repetitious musical score by synthesizer . The film is starred by Fred Williamson , one of the first African-American male action star of the Blaxploitation of the early 1970s , including his filmography the followings : ¨Black Caesar¨ , ¨Hammer¨ , ¨The man bolt and Black eye¨ ; besides , Isela Vega who played Western for Cantinflas in ¨Por mis Pistolas¨ and Sam Peckinpah , in ¨Bring me the head of Alfred Garcia¨ . The motion picture was regularly directed by Larry Spangler , director and producer of ¨Legend and soul of Charlie¨ , again with Fred Williamson . The film attained lukewarm reception by the public and achieved limited success .
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