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Clintie
Reviews
Dollar for the Dead (1998)
Unbelievable - in the bad sense.
I had hoped that this was a badly made spoof, but alas no.
This is not a good western. Emilio Estevez simply does not look the part in the lead role. Having him being part of a group of teen bandits may have worked, but as a supposed a 'mysterious stranger' it does not.
Estevez grimaces, squints and scowls in all the right places but he just seems like a college kid on a day trip to the country. The first gunfight in a bar was quite amusing in places, though this was probably not the directors intention, as he desperately tries to paint Estevez as a highly skilled and near god-like gunman of the Wild West.
You are led to believe that Estevez can drop his whisky, pick up his gun (which seems to be some sort of automatically reloading sixty-shooter), shoot people though walls and doors with the aid of some kind of X-ray vision, and catch his whisky before it hits the floor.
The plot revolves around a chase for a hidden fortune, which is a fair basis for a western, like Sergio Leone's brilliant The Good, The Bad and the Ugly starring Clint Eastwood. Even Clint Eastwood has to reload _his_ gun once in a while.
But towards the end I wasn't involved enough to care if they ever got the money.