Billy the Kid: Showdown in Lincoln County (2017) User Reviews

Best if You're Drinking

[llthomas-58141 · 1/10 · 21 June 2017]

This movie was so bad that it was good. It has everything: bad acting, bad lighting, bad camera work, a terrible script, and cardboard guns. I was looking for a comedy I hadn't seen before and decided an action movie would suffice, not knowing that I'd soon be laughing so hard at the unintentional comedy in this movie I'd be crying. So, in the end, our family had a great evening. In order to increase your enjoyment, we suggest a drinking game where everyone takes a shot whenever one of the following happens: the top of someone's head is cut off in the frame; another character is added with no explanation or purpose; you can't understand the mumbling actors; someone asks for/says they need a job.

Even though we had fun I won't be renting this movie again. Ever.

You have been warned.

Absolutely painful watch

[fredharlow-13815 · 1/10 · 29 May 2017]

Holly hell. How did this even get into Red Box. Number one, the editor should never touch film again.He should watch a few movies and learn. or just watch his pwn work as a lesson of what not to do. The lighting was the damned of most of the scenes. The sound. The effects.The shaky camera work gave me motion sickness. Oh hell. Bottom line, I want my rental money back. But most of all, I wish I could get back the time watching this. Only way to appreciate this film, is if they said at the start,that it was a low budget amateur film. I feel Like Red Box Tricked me.

Ughhh

[pamelascotwarband · 1/10 · 12 June 2017]

The worst movie I have ever seen in my life. Do not waste your time or money on this one. Plot? Nonexistent. Acting? Like junior high school students. The only way to have a good time watching this movie is to get drunk and laugh at it. Yes, it is that bad. I read the credits so I would be sure to avoid anything by this so-called "director" in the future, and I noticed that one of the actors ("Emma") also was the hair and makeup person. Wow.

OMG

[lassiter-42025 · 26 October 2021]

This movie is horrible. Like, it's so bad it's like I directed it, filmed it with my flip phone and casted all my cousins with no acting experience. Im all for trying but oh my this is horrible.

WTF

[bojan-horvat4 · 1/10 · 5 January 2021]

One of the worst movies I saw in my life. And I saw a LOT of movies. Team who created this crap should be sued and banned for life from movie business.

Don't even bother

[mickerick-48434 · 1/10 · 9 June 2017]

Watched it for 5 minutes saw a man get shot and while he was down put his hat back on that was enough for me.Why do they make this kind of rubbish and say its good,The guns made more smoke than a steam engine going full throttle. The one cabin that i did see was something out of a luxury caravan park without windows not an old log cabin made by hand. Please if you're going to have a go at making a western look at pictures from the 1800s

Not worth your time or money

[luckiestguyever · 1/10 · 2 July 2017]

This movie was horrible. Poorly acted and directed. The only thing I saw that was note worthy was that the actor that played Billy actually kinda looked like him. Half the male cast have long hair so it looked like a bunch of bikers playing cowboys (not historically very accurate.) If you love history this movie hurts. If you love a good western this movie hurts worse. I love westerns and grew up with quality. What happened? I want my money back.

Just wasted 80 minutes of my life.....

[tannert-846-35954 · 1/10 · 27 September 2017]

I have to comment on this movie, hope to safe some other people the regrets i am sitting with right now... I looked it up at google, because i was certain that it was some kind of sick joke or something... This is, no doubt about it, the worst crap i have EVER seen, my TV bleeds... I can never get the 80 minutes of my life back, don't put yourself in my shoes... Just run and don't look back....LOL :-D

Very poorly acted.

[afriendinreno · 1/10 · 2 July 2021]

Probably the worst movie I ever wasted time on, I couldn't finish it!!

The acting was very painful to watch. Someone would speak their line, total silence, then the next line, total silence, then the next line, total silence--all the way through, no such thing as a normal dialog and the acting itself has awful!!

The costumes were a joke, too modern clothes then they added a vest.

The sets were a joke, way too modern, modern doors and hardware.

Really bad. It would be a great training movie on how not to make a movie!!

"You just gotta talk to people with the language they understand."

[classicsoncall · 2/10 · 26 June 2021]

The tag line for the movie here on IMDb states that it's 'The true story of how and when Billy The Kid became an outlaw'. Don't believe it for a minute. It's as if scattered facts about the historical Billy the Kid were written down on pieces of paper, placed in a hat, and flung in the air with each snippet randomly inserted into the story as they fell to Earth without regard to chronology or accuracy. The funniest thing was the mention of the Smith-Warren gang at the beginning of the movie, with the name 'Warren' later changing to 'Weston' and used interchangeably thereafter in the story. The only positive thing I can say about this picture is that the landscape photography is excellent, and I'll throw in an honorable mention for the song lyrics, which if you listen closely, they are kind of cool. But the script, acting, dialog and even the sets beg for a modicum of credibility that is sorely lacking. Interestingly, as I come to this movie here on IMDb, every single one of the seven reviewers to comment on it give it a '1' rating. The thing is, I've seen two other Westerns by director Christopher Forbes titled "American Gunslingers" and "Wyatt Earp Shoots First", and hard as it is to believe, this one is twice as good as those two. Which is why I give it a '2'.

An Utter Piece of Trash

[castolon-93467 · 1/10 · 6 March 2022]

A complete waste of film/video/whatever was used.

This kind of trash needs the ability to rate zero (better yet, negative) stars.

No quality, no acting skill. No redeeming value whatsoever.

Nada.

Dang, if this guy did it, so can I.

[orkanumurhan · 1/10 · 13 February 2022]

This film inspired me to take up directing.

Haven't laughed so hard in my life, and my 7 year old wants to watch it a third time now too. I had a hard time explaining how people came back from the dead and what stuffing pages of the Bible into people's mouths has anything to do with anything.

The movie produced by those who never watched a movie

[david-4930 · 1/10 · 2 June 2022]

There is nothing good about this movie. Nothing. It is the sort of thing you get if a group of people who never studied film production got together to make one. Every aspect is truly wretched: Script (please, learn what the word "true" means), acting, lighting, sound, costumes, props, and on and on.

Wtf

[jerrynloriann · 1/10 · 2 March 2022]

This movie suck big time the action in it is so bad and it is so bad I couldn't ever try to watch it it looks like it shot it old school video camera there is nothing good I can say about this horrendous movies don't waste your time for a minute of your life watching this movie.

This film is deader than a brick

[Woodyanders · 1/10 · 27 December 2021]

Notorious outlaw William Bonney (a.k.a. Billy the Kid) finds himself the target of various bounty hunters in Lincoln County.

Boy, does the schlockfest strike out something fierce in every possible way: We've got ham-fisted (mis)direction, a meandering story that unfolds at a plodding pace, terrible acting from a lame no-name cast, ineptly staged gunfights, and a seriously cruddy and dissatisfying limp noodle ending. This film is so incredibly bad and shoddy, it plays like an unintentional comedy throughout. A total clunker.

I...I..just don't know what to say...

[drstroud · 1/10 · 26 January 2023]

...but I'll try. Came across this on the "this" cable station and thought, title sounds good, lets learn a little about Billy the Kid. A local community acting company in a backwoods town of 500 people can act better than those in this movie. Just awful. How this made it as far as it did? Question for the ages. Definitely was a loss of all money invested. Watch it and I guarantee your life will not seem as bad as you thought. Did I mention the awful acting? And bad lighting, bad camera work, heads cutoff in the scene...and bad acting. I cannot emphasize enough how bad the acting is. This would be tough to accept as a high school play.