When I reviewed modern-day Western Let Him Go I said it could, with different presentation, have been a social realist drama. And in a way that's what this is, with its Big Country setting, loner hero and what-a-man's-gotta-do themes: social realism with shades of the Western.
It's made with skill and commitment, and it really is a relief to see anything these days that is just about normal people living normal lives and is not working some political angle. But the drama needed to be developed more - it almost feels like a story with no middle - and it's just desperately, depressingly sad: sad, for me, right up to the somewhat unconvincing and inconclusive end.
It's made with skill and commitment, and it really is a relief to see anything these days that is just about normal people living normal lives and is not working some political angle. But the drama needed to be developed more - it almost feels like a story with no middle - and it's just desperately, depressingly sad: sad, for me, right up to the somewhat unconvincing and inconclusive end.