Review by planktonrules

"Tom Horn" is Steve McQueen's second to last film. I saw some folks call it his penultimate movie--which is true, but how many people know that penultimate means the same as second to last?! In the movie, he plays a real life character--a gunman in the west that was a hired gun and reportedly killed a lot of people. However, when he's hired by a cattlemen's association to stop rustling and chase sheep herders of the land, he's way too good at it and kills quite a few folks. Because of this, it caused bad publicity and a desire to hang him as a scapegoat--at least that's what you see in the film. In reality, there's quite a bit of debate as to whether or not Horn was guilty, though there did seem to be a bit of a rush to judgment considering that the evidence against him was minimal.

This is a rather straight-forward sort of film. It is pretty violent at times and has some slow moments, but otherwise it's well made and interesting. Not a great film but a very good one.