rocinante-two
Another revenge flick where the protagonist is a wronged woman, the villain is a religious psycho-bigot, and the "good man"/sidekick supporting role is both "colorful" and subordinate? **That's** original. (sarcasm_off.)I can hear the pitch now: "It's like Django, but with a chick - and I can make it for just 7 mil!".Also, I wonder how many "Mad Men" fans and X-Men fan boys (yes, I know how it's spelled, but IMDb's stupid spell-checker won't let me enter it *correctly*) will buy a ticket just to gawk at JJs boobies - and still take their girlfriends with them to see it. ("What? Honey, it's a *feminist* revenge flick!") Lol - it's a two-fer!"You see, this is what I don't understand: I don't understand how so many people with so much talent can spend so much money and make so much crap." - Senator Jay Bulworth (Warren Beatty)
kosmasp
January Jones plays the main lead in this and she is really great in this. Ed Harris also has a blast and the movie overall is a nice addition to the western genre. It has all the right ingredients (with added female nudity, which isn't something that is a given of course) and was obviously fun to shoot.The movie itself which was playing at the Fantasy Filmfest in Germany when I watched it, is predictable because of the known story line (even without me saying where this is going, you'll see it coming from a thousand miles). But the fun you can have with it, is still there, especially if you have a soft spot for Western movies in general
Theo Robertson
In 19th Century New Mexico Miguel Ramirez gets in to a feud with religious zealot Josiah . When Miguel fails to return to his home his wife Sarah suspects that Josiah may be behind her husbands disappearance This went straight to DVD in Europe which is somewhat surprising because it does contain relatively well known names in Harris , Isaacs and Jones . That said reading the comments on this page you are struck as to the number of comments that describe the film as being " funny " but I should qualify this by saying it is funny in the same way as Al Swearengen is funny in DEADWOOD because this is black comedy at its most brutal and uncompromising along with role reversal revenge fantasy and you can see why it might have been a difficult film to market It's not a very well paced film and some scenes seem to go on for too long and the fact that there's not a lot of incidental music to these scenes means they seem longer than they really are . That said it's probably the effect the director wants because SWEET VENGEANCE concerns it self with mood rather than narrative and is a very moody revenge thriller . One does notice that the cinematography is rather murky and fails to make the most of the New Mexico landscape , especially when you get the instinctive feeling that there's a subtext of man - or more specifically woman - versus nature going on there somewhere but this aspect comes over slightly confused and isn't as well developed as it could have been . Regardless of that if you enjoyed DEADWOOD then you might just enjoy this blackly comical violent Western
rrcharpe
Although I hugely enjoyed the movie I had a curious thought about the way Hollywood has been presenting Christians the last decade or so (during the same time period as the progressive left wingers have taken control of our country). Why is it that in many movies produced in the U.S.A. Christians are portrayed as radicals on par with Islamic terrorists. This movie uses a demented Christian pastor as the evil villain and a Hispanic man and his "White" wife as the put upon good people. What ever happened to the millions of decent Christian people in America's history who helped the poor and "turned the other cheek" amongst the many good things that Jesus stood for in his day and Christians today stand for? I did really like the movie but can't Hollywood find someone else to kick around than Christians? Just a thought. StocktonRob
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