Cassidy Red

I get sick and tired of all the arm chair film critics who think they are God's gift to the film industry but actually know nothing. I think some people give bad reviews on every film they see just for the hell of it.

Cassidy Red is a film with a simple storyline. It's not a piece of great literature but it works. It's not meant to be an all action film along the lines of The Magnificent Seven, it's a man telling a young woman down on her luck a story which turns out to be a personal experience.

The locations are great, the photography is great, the dialogue is adequate to tell the story and the action sequence at the end is good.

Its an hour and a half of escapism and after a while it gets you hooked to know the ending, until you guess the ending. Yes it has some flaws, but then which film doesnt. If you are going to pick the nits of every film you see then what is the point in ever watching one, you wont ever enjoy seeing one, you'll just enjoy getting a list of faults and feel smug. If that is all you care about you need to get out more.

Relax, sit back and watch it for some light entertainment.

I loved it and would watch it again.

We often wonder, and talk that there could heaps of great artists hidden, not getting the chance and encouragement.

Well, whoever did the camera work for this movie, the edits, and sound design, well those guys are absolute top-notch. I was astounded to see aesthetic sense and the chiselled and well thought of camera work. The sound design was so well done.

The actors were not bad at all. Surely, you don't expect such intricacy from a low budget movie.

We have watched many a movies which are done pretty pure. This movie deserves a watch and the artists, some appreciation.

Watch it to appreciate artistry.

The firecracker daughter (Abby Eiland) of an alcoholic gunslinger and a prostitute makes an enemy of the local mogul in southern Arizona (David Thomas Jenkins). When her beloved is captured under trumped-up charges and feared dead (Jason Grasl), she has to turn to her lousy father (Rick Cramer) in order to set things a'right.

"Cassidy Red" (2017) is an artistic Indie with a reverent tone, great score, nice cinematography, decent no-name actors and authentic Southwest locations. This was Matt Knudsen's only film as writer/director; he usually works in the camera/electrical department. Despite its kickstarter origins, the movie worked for me as a moving arty ballad rooted in a romantic triangle with an Old West milieu.

Despite the nod to "Hannie Caulder" (and its unacknowledged remake, "6 Guns"), the story & style smack of originality with the setting switching back-and-forth from 1899, 1874 and 1863, although 1874 is the main setting described above.

Eiland does well as the no-nonsense protagonist. Also notable on the feminine front is Lola Kelly (Rowena), Jessy Knudsen (Quinn) and Alyssa Elle Steinacker (Young Joe).

The film runs 1 hour, 31 minutes, and was shot in Old Tucson and the nearby Sonoran Desert with some stuff done in Santa Clarita, north of Los Angeles.

GRADE: B/B-

Good acting, good history and good aesthetic. Good lighting, good music, good photography, that's innegable. Only who don´t know nothing can say other thing, or only a hater.

Perhaps it is not the best movie in the world, but it has all the ingredients for seeing it and enjoying it.

It's a little off for your typical western, but I really enjoyed this movie, and the story especially. Worth the watch if you're into westerns