American Gunslingers (2017) User Reviews

Avoid this DUD.

[kruizer04-268-186704 · 2/10 · 16 December 2017]

I love a good western, but this isn't one of them, bad acting, bad special effects, badly put together script is just some of it's faults. The lead 'gunslinger' is by no means a leading man, his clothes were too clean, his dialogue and delivery was atrocious. Painful to watch scenes of confrontation in what (I suspect) was supposed to be 'cool', were just pitiful. Blood was the wrong color, the soundtrack was annoying and out of place, some of the sound effects were cheap and out of sync or just missing. A lot of things could have been fixed with some clever editing, while I don't think that would have made this a better film, it might have shown that the makers cared about the end product. Avoid this DUD

Drunk Rednecks Make a Movie

[imdbbeavbeavis · 1/10 · 20 May 2019]

It's 4:00 A.M. and a North Carolina ,white-trash, bar owner shut down the place for the night, locking in his closest drunk friends. In their stoned, creative mood, they cobbled together a plan to make a movie. Their aunt's $700,000 lottery winnings would fund it. The buddy who topped out with a 5th grade education would write it. The guy with the largest VHS collection would direct it. Local convenience store employees and chicken processing plant laborers would be the cast and crew. What could possibly go wrong?

You'll feel the need to call RedBox for a refund, but you'll never get back your moments of time wasted on this garbage. I couldn't watch much more than 5 minutes of it.

Horrible

[isaiahdaniellindley · 1/10 · 11 March 2018]

I was about to give it 2 stars only because it is so bad it's funny but the acting is horrible very cheaply made and im not sure if the directors know but black ball tip lip piercings probably were not very popular in the 1860's

Horrible film!!!!

[markyoung-00660 · 13 January 2018]

Someone lied to all of these people if the told them their acting was good enough to make a movie!! The story line acting and music was horrible! I'm a long time country music fan and that is the worst music I have heard in a while! Redbox should be ashamed of themselves for putting this film in their selection! Do yourself a favor and save the $1.50 , it would be better spent to just throw it away!!

Pure garbage made by amateurs country singers to expose their songs !!!

[elo-equipamentos · 2/10 · 2 January 2021]

Pitifully lately has a wave of bad westerns made by all sort of non-professional people, with a tightest budge, this one I've perceived were made by country singers, in order to expose their songs, the movie works like a vehicle to spread it, that weren't bad indeed, it was made without any yardstick, clean clothes, shinning replica guns, the sets scarcely furnished, the players are by and large assembled by amateurs, mostly they appears with well care long hair and long beard as well, also to be worst there's no gorgeous women at sight to turn the movie more palatable, but just allowing two mid ages women with sparse and effaced sex appeal, plain lack of feeling typical of the newbies, the plot wasn't too appalling at all, however too conventional, contently they shoot at several well-picked spots when the lead role has been wandering for ten years cross country looking for the unknown soldier that burn alive his wife, in this short sequence they displayed so many wonderful landscape, whereby saves the film be dropped to lowest grade which its belong, the revenge itself speaking also is unusual at least, overall it's a pristine garbage unfortunately!!

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First watch: 2021 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 2

So bad it's funny

[richardsouza-90552 · 2/10 · 14 December 2020]

The producers had directed the cast and crew to make as campy a movie as possible. Flat unemotional lines by all the actors. Very nice costumes, horses and sets. Everyone is so clean! I kept watching waiting to see if it could get worse. Yes it did. Seems like they took the Producers screenplay as a guide to create this movie. I did watch all of the movie.

Abysmal from Start to Finish!!!

[zardoz-13 · 1/10 · 17 December 2017]

"Cole Younger & The Black Train" helmer Christopher Forbes' oater "The Last Gunslinger" gives westerns a bad name. This amateurish epic, complete with bland acting, forgettable dialogue, and scenes that wear out their welcome, is abominable. Mind you, the premise about a revenge-driven former Confederate searching for the dastard that burned his wife alive isn't new. Trouble is neither Forbes nor his Michael Boswell bring anything new to the tale in their retelling. By the way, "The Last Gunslinger" looks a lot like Boswell's own "Vengeance Without Mercy" (2013) that cast country western warbler Cody McCarver as Charles Holley and Jerry Chesser as Animus Smite. Chesser makes a better villain than McCarver makes a hero. Everything about this western, which is set in either Virginia or North Carolina, makes it seem more like an eastern. The production looks as low-budget as an empty bucket. The entire cast looks like they need to go on Nutrisystem. Indeed, the only thing that I liked about this eastern was its arsenal of firearms. The hardware looked authentic. Christopher Forbes is a better producer than a director. Suspense and tension are no where to be seen. The movie lacks a sense of pace. The pictorial compositions are formless. The images veer between color and black & white. The lighting doesn't add atmosphere. The gunfight at the stable had potential, but Forbes orchestrates it like a poor high school skit. One of the adversaries looks hilariously overweight. There should have been bigger clouds of powder smoke gusting off the guns. At times, "The Last Gunslinger" degenerates into a dead pan parody of western conventions. Boswell provides the non-actors here with pages of loquacious dialogue, and nobody ever seems to know when to shut up. Few of the cast members look like they belong in a period setting like this. The photography of the railroad train was okay. The DVD cover art makes the protagonist look like a traditional westerner with a face chiseled out of stone. Paunchy, pickled-face Cody McCarver doesn't conjure up any charisma. The character of Charles Holley was dressed with as was Jerry Chesser's Animus Smite. McCarver sings well, but he desperately needs acting lessons and a better director. "The Gunslinger" sheds a little blood, but the violence never becomes so profuse that you'd want to shut your eyes.

"The wages of sin pay very well."

[classicsoncall · 1/10 · 13 June 2021]

This film is just as bad as "Wyatt Earp Shoots First" which I saw a few weeks ago, so much so that I had to go back and check if it was made by some of the same folks. Sure enough, Christopher Forbes directed both pictures which goes a long way in explaining things, and two of the principal actors appeared in both. Much of the same criticism applies to both pictures as well. The dialog is stilted and virtually all of it is delivered matter of factly, even in what would be considered a highly emotional situation. As for creativity, there are two federal agents in this story named Billy and Willy, how much thought do you think went into that decision? In the scene where Charles Holley (William Adams) gets the drop on Animus Smite (Jerry Chesser) and forces him into the river, it's mentioned by several characters that the river is full of snakes, so you would think a snake might figure in what happens there, but all you get is a look at a single snake slithering around as if to make it official. Folks, this is so head shakingly bad I can't understand why it was even made, let alone why it appears on Xumo Westerns. I've now been forced into the dubious position of watching back to back Westerns which I've had to rate no higher than a '1'. Be forewarned.

Come on guys. Give this one a chance.

[montana-slim · 10/10 · 13 July 2019]

Although the plot of this movie seems to be yer typical revenge, the action is very clear. And while the dialogue seems stilted and phony at first, it becomes clear that it was intentional on the part of the actors. The actors produced the movie themselves, including the music, which on its own was worth the 1:20 time spent. "The Last Gunslinger" is worth 10 stars for the audio quality alone. You can understand every word without having to strain your ears with faint whispers and heavy breathing. This movie is a breath of fresh air in an era of cookie cutter films. You will not be bored, and you may even have a few chuckles on your way to a surprising end.

More wood than a forest.

[gennymikel · 7 April 2018]

...meaning that the acting was not aweful, it did not exist. From the second I saw the opening scene I knew I should have bought a Pepsi rather than renting this. The acting is devoid of any drama or emotion to make it interesting, the opening scene did not lay any ground work for the film, the uniforms were so clean you could smell the detergent, the guns used in the war were sparkling, the corpse by the tree would not make it as a holloween prop in a pre school, especially since it was missing both legs and one arm, and this may cure me of renting from Red Box. I'm sorry, but there are people out there who just cant make a movie, and for crap's sake I had no idea decent acting was that hard. The shootout scene at the barn was hilarious, no wounds, no bullets hitting the barn, EMPTY GUNS, OMG SO OBVIOUS FROM THE CLOSE UPS THE GUNS HAD NO BULLETS, .....I yi yi. Ok, I'm done. Time to get something to drink and watch something else. I appreciate the film makers trying to make a film.....but please, get regular jobs. Seriously......actors also.

Dead giveaway!

[biddergalore · 8 October 2020]

First one is that the daughter in the very first scene has a piercing in her lip. Next scene the wife in coming face to face with the Union soldier pulls a gun for self defense with beautifully manicured red nails! Smallest quality control out the window! I turned it off at that point.

OH God!..

[damocleas · 27 December 2017]

I managed to watch about 5 minutes.

For a civil war era film, The people were spotlessly clean with clothing in perfect condition. The sending off of the character to war seemed so wierd. Half the time i felt they were directly talking to the camera. Delivery was flat. Could almost believe the lines were written on cards below the camera.

The woman's fate was evil but she hardly reacted. I could believe people dislocating shoulders and tearing there skin off trying to get unbound yet she sat there covered in oil saying stop. Didn't seem like she was making much effort to show fear or horror.

Then he comes back from the war. Still in the same clothes, Still spotlessly clean, same clothes worn for a few years away fighting there would be frayed seams,stitches split, buttons missing or tarnished. Yet the only difference from first viewing was slightly dusty boots. He's wandering around like he's at a garden party looking for the food, no impression of any emotional reaction to the fact he's calling his wife and she's not replying.

Then the tree... In perfect condition. Granted, you dont want to burn a tree for a film , especially as i suspect they were on state home grounds for a couple of days but charcoal dust up the tree could be washed off and give a bit more believable effect. Instead you a growing green tree in perfect state and at the base a pile of ash with a necklace, he takes and rubs clean a bit.. Still no real reaction. I was laughing at this point. I couldn't take it anymore and gave up.

Im guessing this is a labour of love by some reenactors but from experience of Medieval reenactment playing up to a crowd is easier than doing the same actions in from of a static camera. Might have benefited from having a live audience or more practice in from of camera. Certainly would have benefited from someone overseeing clothing and props to ensure they reflect actions and passage of time. I can't say anything about the rest of the film or the dialog since i couldn't watch anymore, Maybe it improved a lot but I doubt it.

So bad it is awesome

[mistymccrackin · 19 February 2018]

Instant cult classic. I laughed at the horrible acting, dismal plot, odvious card reading throughout the movie. If you can laugh at bad movies this is the funniest bad movie I have seen in forever. If you think William Chung was funny on American Idol, you will find this movie hysterical.