Rating: - QUITE LITERALLY, A CONFUSING MINDSORE.
This mess is the remainder from a cobbled miniseries of which most, thankfully, has been left in the can, as is apparent by the billing: Jurgen Prochnow (1st) has a half-dozen or so short lines and nearly no screen time, Martin Sheen (2nd) disappears completely early on, Corbin Bernsen (3rd) does not appear at all. The screenplay is based upon the novel "The Ysabel Kid" by a popular English novelist writing as J. T. Edson (whose historically inaccurate depictions of Western Americana were researched for the most part in his favourite pub), and is replete with incongruity of dialogue, often lapsing ... Read More
Rating: - Adequate - just
As a great fan of JT Edson's scrupulously well-researched, intelligent Westerns, I purchased this eagerly. It does have the ever watcheable Martin Sheen and the excellent but underrated Chris Atkins as a very good "Dusty Fog". Unfortunately "based on" should come with the qualifier "just barely". It follows every Western cliche known to man and the plot is wafer-thin. On top of this there are two extremely unpleasant and gratuitous scenes - one of rape - that were clearly included for no better reason than to give male viewers a close up look of the actresses jiggling bare breasts; the rape scene is ... Read More
Rating: - Guns of Honour
I recently bought this video and its follow up. I am a JT Edson fan and looked forward to watching them brought to the screen. Whilst they follow the books in some way there are a number of minor discrepancies which can grate. However they are well worth watching especially for the Ysabel Kids humour. The two movies follow on from one another which is not like the books. There is also the problems that the enemy is the northern states despite the American Civil war being over. I am sure they could not kill that many cavalry and get away with it. Still as a shoot them up they are very good and I recommend ... Read More
Rating: - Great Movie
This is a great movie. It shows the dark side of war and the always grey zone that separates the winners from the losers. I loved that an Indian was a hero in the movie. There are disappointingly few Indian heroes in American movies. The story is wonderful with danger, friendship, revenge, honour and even a little romance. The actors play very good and the movie is very believable. The scenes in the movie are beautiful. The movie is very realistic about the war and the civil casualties that are in every war so this movie is definitely NOT for children but for adults who wants to see a good movie which ... Read More
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