Counting Bullets

I started watching this and became intrigued. Good scenes in the fort, and as a veteran I knew guys who were often in trouble - drunk too, usually - but had combat service records to be proud of and depended upon.

Michael Estridge was a good green officer and did a fine job of acting as such.

And then the surprise/shock of who "the Indians" were ... rather like Jaws not being horribly discovered until well into the film.

The weapons looked to be of accurate vintage, although in one of the final scenes Lt. Lowe was shot at point-blank and somehow missed. (This *can* happen, but it didn't help screen credibility.) And as others have observed, the location was as unsparingly glaring as it was beautiful.

And no, I'm not related to the production company. :-) A decent flick.

Really enjoyed this movie. The word appealing seems to capture all that is true about this movie. The characters seemed real, so I cared about them and what happened to them. The story kept me interested and anxious for more.

Four fake reviews contributed by the movie makers relatives, colleagues or friends, tried to cheat people to pick out this terrible western genre garbage from the DVD garbage bin in a supermarket renting machine. Watchable, at least? If you were in jail and there's only one movie that was shown in the public roaming area, and you've got nowhere to go, then watch it.

What amazed me as a myth is why so many moronic investors would waste their money to so many horrible movies? Many production budgets were over several millions and even more, but their global box office records only shown couple of thousand dollars, sometimes, even in the 5 figure range. Why not used that money to invest in other ventures instead of making movies?

I'm not a relative nor was I paid to leave a "good" review. I am someone who understands this particular genre and style of movie making. It's not a multi-million dollar production. It was meant to be the product of artists working with a limited budget and it works in that perspective.

The acting is good (great in some parts) and not so good in others but always worth watching. The scenes of the trapped cavalry and the desperate situation they were in was well staged, well acted and the shots were well directed.

If you want Big Jake or Stagecoach, go see them. I enjoy these movies for what they are. Many, like this one, are a collaboration of artists working together to make something worth watching.

I like Westerns of the 1940s-1970s and thought that "Counting Bullets" compared well with them. I assume that most of those involved were amateurs, and if so then theirs was a commendable effort.

Another reviewer has mentioned the curiosity of the patrol not retrieving the weapons of ammunition of the killed Comancheros, and nor did it seem to take much in the way of supplies. And the two meaningful conversations between beleaguered members of the patrol went on a bit.

Good photography.

Easily worth a six, I've given it seven.