This review contains spoilers.
I am a fan of Westerns, and I did enjoy this one, in spite of the problems mentioned in other reviews. Gary Busey and Jeff Fahey are good here, as usual, and I liked Jenya Lano as well, even if her role was lifted right out of 'The Quick and the Dead.'
My main complaint involves the whole 'ghost' subplot, which was somewhat confusing...How DOES Savannah interact with the other characters if she's dead? And my own personal preference, if you must have the ghost angle at all, is to have Johnny really die at the end, so he and Savannah are both ghosts and can be together.
Even better would have been to not kill Savannah in the opening, and simply have her and Johnny show up as live people to avenge those who'd been killed 20 years before,
As for the Marshals sent for by the bartender...How incompetent were these guys? I found it hard to believe they could be slaughtered so easily.
And one more thing...An earlier review mentioned that straight-razor cuts would bleed heavily--what about the clueless outlaw whose hand is cut off? If he even survived such an injury, how likely is it that he would then be able to cross the desert barefoot?
Ah, well...I enjoyed the movie for what it was, a low-budget Western that tried to be different. Overall, I feel it succeeded.
I am a fan of Westerns, and I did enjoy this one, in spite of the problems mentioned in other reviews. Gary Busey and Jeff Fahey are good here, as usual, and I liked Jenya Lano as well, even if her role was lifted right out of 'The Quick and the Dead.'
My main complaint involves the whole 'ghost' subplot, which was somewhat confusing...How DOES Savannah interact with the other characters if she's dead? And my own personal preference, if you must have the ghost angle at all, is to have Johnny really die at the end, so he and Savannah are both ghosts and can be together.
Even better would have been to not kill Savannah in the opening, and simply have her and Johnny show up as live people to avenge those who'd been killed 20 years before,
As for the Marshals sent for by the bartender...How incompetent were these guys? I found it hard to believe they could be slaughtered so easily.
And one more thing...An earlier review mentioned that straight-razor cuts would bleed heavily--what about the clueless outlaw whose hand is cut off? If he even survived such an injury, how likely is it that he would then be able to cross the desert barefoot?
Ah, well...I enjoyed the movie for what it was, a low-budget Western that tried to be different. Overall, I feel it succeeded.