Excellent but underrated film

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Its got a pretty face, one con man, a hardened marshal (Sam Elliot) and miscellaneous one-time deputies. Just another boilerplate western with very little creativity in the plot or anything else for that matter. What would Sam Elliot be without that unique voice who is better at voice overs, than anything else? (Beef, its whats for dinner) Lots of customary shootouts with people dropping from a spray of bullets. It gets five stars because its as mediocre as a movie can get. Not good and not bad. Here's the thing. I got a Sam Elliott "western collection" at a yard sale and this was the first of the three movies I watched. I'm going to read the reviews on the other two movies before wasting my time on another mediocre movie.

Linda Fiorentina develops from sexy seductress in The Last Seduction into a merciless killer in this effort, and it's a world away from Jessie the happy cowgirl from the Toy Story films. She'll blast your brains out without so much of a second glance, and she wears them Western clothes like she was born in the outfit. Partnering with a smart mouthed confidence trickster, she's on the run from the always excellent Sam Elliott, who plays a grizzled old sheriff. She committed the unpardonable sin of killing his son (Who she was married to, and he knocked seven bells out of her, hence the reason for her slaying him) so needless to say, this lawman is slightly more persistent in pursuing his target than most...There are no signs of this being a straight to video effort, as the productions values are decent throughout. There are also some well staged and fast moving shootouts, but in terms of gore this ain't no The Wild Bunch, so the 18 certificate is a bit of a mystery. Like the film I last watched, The Kentuckian, this is hardly going to go down in history as one of the genre classics. But it'll pass 85 minutes, and you won't feel you've wasted your time. Which is good enough for me. 6/10

This movie seems to have been written under the shade of Unforgiven - the beating of a woman justifies over a dozen murders. I didn't see it that way. Throughout the movie, my sympathy (unlike that of Mr. English who also reviewed this) was with the marshal (as rough as he was) in catching and hanging the murderer - and her partner. The movie was very well-done though - and a particularly wonderful and surprising beginning.Note the wonderful chimed music when things get most exciting. It's worth seeing. Linda Fiorentino is superb - and Elliott was born to play westerns - and does this wonderfully - with great restraint.

I don't like westerns, and I absolutely hate Sam Elliot, beyond words. But, I actually enjoyed this. One of the few feminine westerns out there. All westerns usually seem so macho pig, with no story line, and gunfights galore. All the acting was pretty good, except for Sam Elliot, who I don't see why everyone says he's so good, and I'm not saying Frank Whaley was bad in this, but I did see hints of Swing Kids, every so often. But, overall, it's good, and worth watching even if you hate westerns.