A solidly crafted piece of work that, despite its leisurely pacing, manages to infuse a respectable amount of fresh vigor into clichés and conventions common to shoot-’em-ups set during the post-Civil War era.
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Film ThreatAlex Saveliev
Film ThreatAlex Saveliev
Lee’s film never escapes its B-movie roots, nor does it try to, embracing its own pompousness.
Until Lee finds himself a story editor and a more literate, genre-savvy group of readers to workshop his screenplays, until he figures out that hitching his wagon to a star who is more “available” than charismatic, these films are never going to hide their malnourished, rushed origins.