dhalterm
It took some fortitude to make Outlaws And Angels, and I'm glad these movie makers went ahead with the project. Blending an all-too-familiar but taboo subject into a gritty, adult western resulted in a very entertaining flick. I would compare it to the many novels known as"page turners."
Of course there will be detractors of such a bawdy and detailed presentation, proving that there should be warnings to ward off prudish and uninformed adults from viewing movies like this. In reviewing the movie, these people simply spoil it for others by dragging down the ratings. Face it folks...in its many forms, sex is here to stay.
david-546
Criminales e Angelis! That might as well have been the name of this film that oddly pays homage to the classic Spaghetti Westerns. Unsavoury characters, ultra violence, twisty plot, offensive scenes it had it all. You couldn't like any of these people. Even the supposed lawmen were unsavoury. One almost expected everyone in the film to be dubbed except for a few main characters. Dubbing might have helped (or subtitles) as it seemed that almost everyone mumbled but you got the drift. A band of outlaws (criminales) rob a bank in some dusty unnamed western town complete with hoods. Innocent people get killed (they are just bystanders after all). They escape but one of them is hit as they leave town. From there on its a rough ride as they wind up holing up with a christian family and everything becomes twisty, and ugly with gore and scenes enough to make you cringe. But the sets are great and the feel of being trapped in a place with a band of outlaws, a screaming christian mother and the very unsavoury minister of a father with their two daughters. To give it even better feel of a being a spaghetti western there is the Clint Eastwood connection. Clint's former live-in Francis Fisher plays a somewhat hysteric christian woman while the daughter of Clint's and Francis's years together Francesca Eastwood is the the Angeli of the title. And what an Angeli she makes. Francis Fisher also played Ruth Dewitt Bukater, Rose's mother in Titanic and Strawberry Alice in Eastwood's Unforgiven.As gore piles upon gore and cringing scenes pile on cringing scenes and the body count rises one is reminded that others can do what Tarantino and Peckinpah have done before. You can't like any these characters but you do admire the way the actors play them making it all seem too real. Just like the old spaghetti westerns.
SnoopyStyle
It's 1887 Cuchillo, New Mexico. Masked men escape after a bank robbery. There's a bounty on them for killing a well connected man. The leader Henry (Chad Michael Murray) ruthlessly kills an elderly couple after being told the news of the bounty. They are pursued by Josiah (Luke Wilson) and his posse. Henry and the remaining two barge in on George Tildon and his family on their homestead.This is drawing inspiration from the harsher exploitation elements with the western genre. It's doing too much hand-held and panning around. I'm not sure Wilson and Murray fit in this more brutal movie. They are too Hollywood with a certain personality. I keep thinking a Tarantino would infuse this with better dialogue and more intense thrills. He would have elevated the tension when they are staying in that cabin. It drags on and on despite the wild revelations. It's trying for a lot of things but it's not fully satisfying. There is value in trying but it keeps missing. I question why they don't kill George right from the start. He's a big guy who seems dangerous in a hand to hand fight. This movie tries hard at times but keeps playing a flat note.
movie1994
Who knew such innocent words, like I want to watch a movie, would lead to scenes I'll never ever never forget in my life. I'm not recommending this movie to anyone, because if I do, and you think it's horrible, you will think I'm twisted for liking it. In my defense, I haven't really been watching movies for years, maybe this is how they are all made these days Out to shock you as much as humanly possible I went into this movie knowing absolutely nothing about it. And I had to close my eyes and cover my ears more than once. And I'm pretty tough when it comes to things like that. It was rated really low on IMDb And I understand why. The acting was laughable. The lines were completely stupid at some points. It tries way too hard to be an old western, but I think that was part of the point. Even the film style looked like an old one. So you literally felt like "oh I'm just watching an old film like my dad would have watched." "And look, there's Clint Eastwood's daughter, isn't that sweet." But it's definitely not sweet. And I absolutely loved it.
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