Right, well I was lured in to watching the 2021 movie "Buckskin" from the movie's cover/poster, as it definitely had something interesting appeal. And it seemed like this could be a western with a very different approach to the genre.
So of course I sat down to watch the movie, despite never ever having heard about it prior to getting to sit down and watch it.
Well, writer and director Brett Bentman definitely did deliver an unorthodox Western here with the movie "Buckskin". Just a shame that it wasn't a change in the Western genre that was for the better. Nay, while "Buckskin" does differ from the archetypical blueprint you see lots of Western movie follow, then it wasn't a wholehearted movie.
The storyline told here was just too mundane and didn't really have enough contents to it to support a feature length movie. Sure, there were aspects to the storyline that were interesting enough, but they just were washed away amidst all the mediocrity and slow pacing of the rest of the movie.
I must admit that I was expecting a bit more action, gun fights and the typical stuff you see in Western movies. But no, that was not what writer and director
Brett Bentman had in mind for "Buckskin". Instead we get to follow a tracker venture into these apparently forbidden forest in search for some people. Yeah, and that was essentially the heart of the story. It was so incredibly boring and slow paced to watch that one character mill about in a light forest that definitely had no foreboding or ominous feel to it.
Now, I am not familiar with lead actor Tom Zembrod (playing Wesley Porter), but he actually did an okay job with his performance, despite of having virtually nothing to work with in terms of a properly entertaining or interesting script.
I had hoped that "Buckskin" would prove to be a different Western movie, which it also actually was, but not in the good way, sadly so.
While I managed to sit through the entire ordeal, and yes "Buckskin" was an ordeal, then I can't claim that I was particularly entertained nor enjoying the movie all that much.
If you enjoy a good Western movie, don't waste your time, money or effort on the 2021 movie "Buckskin" from writer and director Brett Bentman.
My rating of "Buckskin" lands on a rather generous three out of ten stars.
