Best movie of this year hands down!

That was an excellent one.

Excellent but underrated film

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

A lot of great actors and great performances. Mediocre script. I kept thinking the writer must have watched Coen Brothers Blood Simple one too many times (if that is really possible). Ian McShane is great and the movie is literally loaded with good actors and actresses but it just doesn't quite hit the mark. Worth watching but not great.

I was breathless many times during the viewing of this film, not through excitement, or surprise, but exasperation. How could anyone make such a poor film, insult so many audiences, and still not be aware that his favourite blithering idiot could have done a much better job. It kept disappointing on so many levels, that you could have been forgiven for believing, he was after the worst picture of the century award. Believe me he needn't have tried so hard. It was a blatant copy of several modern westerns of the same genre. It won't be sited for plagiarism, for the simple reason that no one in his right mind, would turn up to court for the fear of derogatory association. From continuity, choppy shot changes, meaningless transition of plot, it had all the ingredients of" Arthurs" burnt cake. On second thoughts he may have been trying to impress his favourite blithering idiot, I have news for him, he walked out after the first reel.

By the end of the movie I realized that something was slightly amiss with the females in this little story. The men are written wrong also, but it is the women that caught my attention. They are all vapid and corrupt. The have no personality or motivation aside from their obedience to the men in the film. They do not show any signs of horror or disbelief in the actions of their men and they are absolutely willing to do what ever they are told. Their only reaction is to the possibility of loss to themselves because of losing their man.Either a woman or an extremely feminine man wrote this. Viewing it from that perspective, the film makes sense. The men are stereotypes of men as seen through feminine eyes.The women are not liked by the writer and therefore are more chiseled than living. The men react in the same way women, or very effeminate men would react. This isn't a hate comment, it is simply putting the voice of the film in its proper perspective.

This film had to have included some of the most unpleasant characters in recent memory. The gist of the story is that a decent sheriff in a small border town tries to bring law, order, and decency to a community that is beset by crime and anarchy.Patrick Wilson has the unenviable task of trying to develop the character of Sheriff Wallace and interact with the repellent townspeople. Marla, the woman he loves and whose life he is attempting to save from a ruthless Mexican cartel, is demanding and insensitive. The lack of basic human values is apparent throughout the film. Even when Wallace loses his hand in a scuffle, Marla's callous reaction is to say that now, "you can't even write a ticket"!!! Most of characters appear to reside in the town's trailer park, which is the seat of criminal activity in the transportation of much-needed ammunition for the guns of the Mexican cartel. The local ringleader of the crime syndicate appears to be a used car salesman named Shep (Jim Belushi). John Leguizamo plays the role of "Atticus," who has two look-alikes (doubles) who figure in the convoluted and unbelievable plot.It is difficult to imagine how this film could be any worse than it is. As if to add insult to injury, the filmmakers tack on a ridiculous short scene before the closing credits that makes the story and character developments even more preposterous.This was was filmmaking at its worst with a nasty agglomeration of characters.