In Reply to: Entertaining, but not much... posted by mkuller on October 5, 2008 at 12:45:37:
The 2 leads are just fine as the usual laconic tough-as-nails gunfighters. The evilness of the bad guys is established at the first scene, so you know exactly where this is headed.
But it meanders a lot. The climactic gun battles are rather short and anti-climactic. A movie like this is such a known quantity for anyone who's grown up with the movies, there should be a visceral thrill when it all goes down. And there wasn't much of one. As far as well written dialog, it's not terrible, but a single episode of Deadwood beats it handily. The leads are good though. Worth seeing for them.
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Follow Ups
- I pretty much agree... - tunenut 17:24:07 10/05/08 (1)
- Meandering is Parker's writing style - read Spenser, they're bettter...(nt) - mkuller 17:36:54 10/05/08 (0)