Well-filmed and acted, but ultimate a very frustrating movie. This movie is an extended metaphor that quite suddenly veers off into the bizarre with the appearance of several characters that are clearly not human in the last 20 minutes of the story. What starts out as "The Outlaw Josey Wales" or "Jeremiah Johnson" turns into "El Topo" or "Medicine Man" with no apparent rhyme or reason.
All the usual clichés are here...ex-Civil War soldiers with revenge in their hearts, stupid outlaw sidekicks that get picked off one by one, guy with a huge knife who is more than a match for two or three guys with guns, the little girl on the ranch who feels sorry for the poor horse thief, etc. It's just a matter of sequencing and how long you wait to get to them.
Let me repeat...beautifully filmed and well-acted. You may find it worthwhile for these reasons alone.
All the usual clichés are here...ex-Civil War soldiers with revenge in their hearts, stupid outlaw sidekicks that get picked off one by one, guy with a huge knife who is more than a match for two or three guys with guns, the little girl on the ranch who feels sorry for the poor horse thief, etc. It's just a matter of sequencing and how long you wait to get to them.
Let me repeat...beautifully filmed and well-acted. You may find it worthwhile for these reasons alone.