Matt Kelly (Robert Ryan) is a jerk and when the film begins, he's being released from jail in Alaska for poaching. Soon, he's reunited with his friend, Jim (Brian Keith), who is able to convince his fellow salmon fisherman to give Matt a chance. As for Matt, he takes this opportunity to betray his friends and nearly killing several other them and ends up being hated by all because of this. Is this all? Nope...Matt then joins forces with the local baddie and he spends much of the rest of the film stealing, burning, and killing until he ultimately has an inexplicable (and nonsensical) change of heart. The end.
The story is bad. Matt is 100% awful and basing a movie around this character made it difficult to care about him or the movie. His 'redemption' at the very end is also confusing. After all, he is EVIL...and here, inexplicably, he changes sides. It's all very confusing and boring. Good actors wasted with a bad script.
The story is bad. Matt is 100% awful and basing a movie around this character made it difficult to care about him or the movie. His 'redemption' at the very end is also confusing. After all, he is EVIL...and here, inexplicably, he changes sides. It's all very confusing and boring. Good actors wasted with a bad script.