Sweetwater
October. 11,2013 RIn the late 1800s, a fanatical religious leader, a renegade Sheriff, and a former prostitute collide in a blood triangle on the rugged plains of the New Mexico Territory.
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It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
Movie average movie, with the mixture of religion, action.I liked - 1) The cast. 2) Direction. 3) dialogs.Not-so-much-liked - 1) Every next scene is predictable. 2) Action is very simple it should have been little more thriller.The script is not that good. This is a revenge based movie where in initially the villain is violent powerful but suddenly he becomes worthless and easy pray in that hands of actress. There seems to be more than 10 shootouts, all of them were like a child's play with a toy gun.One can watch this movie if you don't have much options.
I came across this movie on Netflix streaming movies. It has a fine cast, all of them are good. Ed Harris can play a role like no other, it is what we have come to expect from him. But Jason Isaacs as the half- crazed Bishop and Prophet Josiah gives an award-caliber performance. It is set in the 1800s and filmed in beautiful New Mexico. A former prostitute and her Mexican husband are settling in to start a new life, but their neighbors are a self-proclaimed "prophet" with a band of loyal thugs and a group of submissive women. Conflict first arises when some of his sheep are grazing on unfenced land and destroying some crops. This "holy man" has his own form of justice and it is brutal.The old, grizzled sheriff comes into the region to look for two men who disappeared while on a trek across New Mexico. He suspects the prophet and digs around to establish his evidence. Ed Harris is Sheriff Jackson, January Jones is the former prostitute Sarah Ramírez and Eduardo Noriega is her husband Miguel. Brit Jason Isaacs with an authentic American old west accent is Prophet Josiah.I also want to mention one of my favorite and very versatile actors, Stephen Root as the dishonest banker Hugh. Root has appeared in quite a variety of roles, always developing an excellent character. I first noticed him in "Office Space" where he played the dim-witted paper shuffler who had been fired but still came to work. Anyway the story is set up with really good possibilities but it seems that the script writer didn't have a good way to pull it all together and the last few scenes just represent a killing spree. It took the luster off an otherwise nice story.SPOILERS: The Prophet had indeed killed the two men the sheriff sought, for having trapped and cooked one of his sheep. Later he killed Sarah's husband because he had raised the issue of the sheep grazing on his land. When Sarah found her husband's body, and got the Prophet's men to tell her what all happened, she shot and killed them, the dishonest banker, and tracked down the Prophet. The last showdown is in the sheep pen, and the Prophet and the Sheriff end up shooting each other. Sarah gets wounded but she puts another bullet through the head of the Prophet for good measure. With no witnesses left, I suppose she would go free.
Sophomore helmer Logan Miller's frontier tale of vengeance "Sweetwater" is a solid but savage horse opera that doesn't bite off more than its low-budget can chew. Basically, this Arc Entertainment oater concerns revenge that a young wife exacts when she discovers that a malevolent minister has slain her husband in cold blood. January Jones plays Sarah Ramírez, and she is an exceptional marksman, far better than her spouse. During one scene when they are shooting at targets, Sarah out-shoots him. Before she married her husband Miguel (Eduardo Noriega of "The Last Stand"), she was a painted lady like her mother, Madame Bovary (Amy Madigan of "Streets of Fire"), who raised her to ply the same trade. Although neither Logan Miller nor his twin brother scenarist Noah Miller explain how Sarah wound up wedding Miguel, Sarah and her husband borrow money from a lowdown local banker, Hugh (Stephen Root of "Red State"), to buy land and build themselves a house. Nearby resides a hypocritical Morman, the Prophet Josiah (Jason Isaacs of "Green Zone"), who has two wives, a daughter, and several ranch hands who have followed him from Utah. The Prophet raises sheep. The symbolism is rather obvious but nevertheless apt. One day, the Prophet catches two trespassers on his land who have killed one of his flock and cooked it. Levi (Logan Miller) and Jacob (Noah Miller) are brothers. Levi's wife is related to the Territorial Governor so when they disappear without a trace, the chief executive dispatches Sheriff Jackson (Ed Harris of "Appaloosa") to find them. Mind you, Harris doesn't play this western lawman with the usual stoic quality with which lawmen are usually depicted. Instead, Jackson is extremely eccentric, if not a little touched in the head. He conducts his investigation and learns that the man who killed Noah shot him with a homemade bullet that contained zinc. The crazy Jackson brings the corpses to Josiah's house and thoroughly enrages him. What Jackson eventually learns is that Josiah murdered not only Levi and Noah, but also that he killed Miquel. After he killed Miquel, Josiah raped Sarah. Life has been rather tough on Sarah. After Miquel disappears, she loses her baby before she could deliver it. Sarah sets out to punish Miquel's killer. Single-handedly, she tracks down all Josiah's men as well as his confederates and guns them down. He gives the man who runs the general merchandise store a lead suppository after she catches him in the act of masturbating while peering through a hole in the wall of his customer's dressing room. Earlier, the storekeeper admired Sarah's form until she poked him in the eye with an umbrella. When Sarah rides out for revenge, she has dressed herself up as a prostitute again.Inspite of its low budget, "Sweetwater" is a handsome looking western with substantial production values. The characters are memorable and vivid, particularly Harris' looney sheriff and Isaacs' crazy prophet. "Avengers" lenser Brad Shield has photographed this entertaining but offbeat distaff western so you can feel the dust, sweat, and violence. Logan doesn't let any grass grow under his feet. Clocking in at 95 minutes, "Sweetwater" qualifies as an above-average sagebrusher. If you love to watch women toting guns and shooting at men, "Sweetwater" is ideal fare for you.
Long-haired religious nut (Jason Isaacs) kills the husband of former prostitute-turned-farmer (January Jones). Violent revenge western dressed up with quirky types and some fairly weak attempts at profundity. Cast is solid with Ed Harris in particular having a good time with his role. However, it's one of those movies where everybody acts like characters instead of people. A little bit of that goes a long way. January Jones has a topless scene so boob lovers can check her off their list. It's all pretty by-the-numbers and there are no real surprises. Harris is the best part. I can't really recommend it but if you are forced to watch it, it won't make your eyes burn.