A cold-blooded killer provokes a legendary gunslinger into coming out of retirement to see who's really the fastest gun in the West.A cold-blooded killer provokes a legendary gunslinger into coming out of retirement to see who's really the fastest gun in the West.A cold-blooded killer provokes a legendary gunslinger into coming out of retirement to see who's really the fastest gun in the West.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Jim van der Woude
- Joshua
- (as LimVan Der Woude)
Kwame Kwei-Armah
- Rastafarian
- (as Kwame Kwei Armah)
Stephen Joseph Scott
- Lieutenant
- (as Lorenzo Wilde)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDirector Giovanni Veronesi stated in an interview that David Bowie answered to his proposal to take part to the movie in 48 hours, telling him: "you are crazy proposing me this movie, but I'm crazier because I'm accepting". Bowie's only condition was to have an accommodation without barking dogs within a radius of 3 kilometers, so they had to do a sort of raid around the countryside and same Veronesi adopted some of the dogs they picked up.
- GoofsThe telegraph office has what appears to be a reel-to-reel film projector, some time before the beginning of the twentieth century.
- SoundtracksEveryone Wants to Be
Written by David Marley and' Stephen Marley'
Music composed by Ziggy Marley/Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
Vocals by Wyclef Jean (as Wycleff)
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How do some of these things acquire a shooting budget?
One wonders if this film was actually directed by a single human being with a creative thought process. The spectacular Tuscan mountain region doubles nicely for the big sky country of America, providing the only genuine energy in this moribund production. It feels as if the screenplay was generated by some sort of computer after being fed with the essential plot points of the Hollywood western. The film lurches along awkwardly, trying not to miss any of the preprogrammed beats. It's rather a grubby combination of far far better films such as "Shane", "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", "The Shootist", "High Noon" or even that evergreen, "The Angel and the Badman". "The Gunslinger's Revenge" even throws in some "Dances With Wolves" moments among the local population of amazingly genial and chipper Native Americans. Presumably the computer weighed the variables and inserted a solid percentage of egalitarianism.
The performances -- if one could call them that -- of the actors are at the very best uniformly bland. One would hope this can be attributed to the script which relies on every Western gunfighter cliché ever produced and handcuffs the actors to characters without any range or depth.
And speaking of Lee Marvin's brilliant performance as the vile, mentally unhinged Liberty Valance...
What cinematic genius suggested that David Bowie try the ghastly pseudo-Southern dialect as the mentally unbalanced gunfighter who tracks Keitel to his hometown? One could blame the computer again. It sorted through the data and decided in lieu of being able to dress Bowie as former Nazi officer (always a quick way to establish a character as a freelance sadist), they would opt for a Confederate officer instead. Of course, it all makes perfect sense -- just like the rest of this appalling film.
The performances -- if one could call them that -- of the actors are at the very best uniformly bland. One would hope this can be attributed to the script which relies on every Western gunfighter cliché ever produced and handcuffs the actors to characters without any range or depth.
And speaking of Lee Marvin's brilliant performance as the vile, mentally unhinged Liberty Valance...
What cinematic genius suggested that David Bowie try the ghastly pseudo-Southern dialect as the mentally unbalanced gunfighter who tracks Keitel to his hometown? One could blame the computer again. It sorted through the data and decided in lieu of being able to dress Bowie as former Nazi officer (always a quick way to establish a character as a freelance sadist), they would opt for a Confederate officer instead. Of course, it all makes perfect sense -- just like the rest of this appalling film.
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- hipbone
- Aug 10, 2006
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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