Brian T. Whitlock (GOWBTW)
When you want a showdown, this movie is it! I enjoyed this movie very well. When you play a hero in the Wild West, it's about time you start being in real life. When a biker gang comes a rolling in your town, you gotta do what you gotta do. Act out you fantasy only with one exception, you must save the people you love, for real. Lou Diamond Phillips really played it down fast as the menacing Bart. He really went to far when he caught the hero's girlfriend who he broke up a while back and ripped open her shirt showing her blue bra. Very blood curdling. The show down was the best, when the hero and Bart do a ordinary showdown gun duel. It was no contest. He didn't kill Bart, because he knows he was being a true hero to himself. This is one of the finest western like action movie I've ever seen. Instead of regular horses, the outlaws came on Harleys. That what's makes the movie very interesting. I liked it! 5 stars! Truly original. The best I've seen!
gangelljr
This is a pretty silly movie, but it is viewable. My main interest is in Hugh Rush Dillon, who happens to be in a Toronto rock band called The Headstones, who also contributed some music for the film. It's unusual and a bit out of character for the tough guy front man, but he is what makes the film OK. I doubt an academy award is in store, but it shows his versatility.
kapecki
The "High Noon" story has been told so many ways on the screen that its hard to think that another retelling could be anything but tedious.
Surprisingly, however, "Lone Hero" is an entertaining, low-budget variant on the tale, thanks to a terrific performance by Lou Diamond Phillips as the vicious, but sardonically perceptive biker villain with most of the good lines. Sean Patrick Flanery, as the title hero, and Robert Forster, his ally with a unspoken past, provide more than able support.The plot is by the book (or is it by the screenplay?), but there is enough nicely mounted action to keep fans of the genre happy, and enough good dialog to keep most others from getting bored.This film has what so many direct-to-video action films lack--good acting with a script whose iconic characters rise well enough above the trite to make the scenes between the fights worth watching.
kelsci
This film was recently shown in the spring of 2002 on HBO. The twist to this film involves one of the participants in a local town's wild west show given to tourist. A criminalistic motorcycle gang invades the town. It is that participant mentioned above who cleverly fights off this gang, one with the help of a friend who apparently is well versed in weapondry and by getting a few of the towns participants to assist him when the gang makes its final assault to seize the town with their ultimate goal of perhaps killing innocents and pillaging the town for whatever they can use on their travels. Lou Diamond Phillips is ideal as the head of the biker gang with a mean wise guy attitude. Sean Patrick Flannery is perfect as the mild mannered participant that wards off the gang. Robert Forster is good support as the friend of Flannery and the weapons expert.There is a style to this action film that although makes it a sort of "B" film that makes it a cut above similar type films. I would say that the plot-story line is the key that is carried out very well.
AD
