Taken from Rio Bravo

Once again - it's too damn short! I know it's zero budget and etc, but I was spoiled by classic masterful B-movies and sydicated long running TV shows.

Pros:

• Some scenes are beautiful (riding through landscapes, knife fight and shootoot with mexicans),
• The continuation of story and lore (I like when characters remember what they said earlier),
• Cynthia and Don had nice little roles,
• It's kind of campy (sometimes, it's a plus for me),
• I can't deny that Joe Cornet gets better with directing and acting.

Cons:

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Have I told you it was too short? In my perfect world of dreams these characters (Ivan Turchin and Co.) have a TV show of 3 seasons 22 episodes each. I give it 10 out of 10 because Alexander Nevsky is controversial figure and amount of professional haters is pretty large. For me Alexander is a man who tought me through his books to avoid any steroids in sports. Looking forward for more sequels.

Now, the synopsis for the movie actually sounded interesting enough to make me decide to sit down and watch the movie. Usually I am not particularly keen on Western movies, but do watch one every now and again. However, I have to say that I had some expectations to the movie from what the synopsis presented. However, writers Craig Hamann and Alexander Nevsky dropped the ball here, because the movie proved to be a massive swing and a miss.

Granted, I have not watched the 2023 Western "Gunfight at Rio Bravo", so I don't know how much of this 2024 sequel was lost on me as I didn't know what transpired in the first movie.

Of the entire cast ensemble in the movie, I was only familiar with Don Wilson, Matthias Hues and Cynthia Rothrock. The acting performances in the movie were for the most parts fair enough, but then there was Alexander Nevsky.

Right, well Cynthia Rothrock as a woman in 1874 performing martial arts didn't exactly come off as being a particularly realistic or plausible thing. It was just such a poorly mixture of martial arts and Western, and it didn't work. And having Don Wilson, whom is part Japanese, play a native American, well...

Director Joe Cornet didn't deliver an impressive Western experience, and this was a movie that will just as quietly fade into oblivion as it quietly managed to sneak in under the radar. Not even if you are a diehard Western fan then I wouldn't recommend you to sit down and watch "Taken From Rio Bravo".

My rating of this 2024 farce of a Western movie lands on a very, very generous two out of ten stars.

Its so bad i cant even tell you about the story whitout laughing, the actors are so bad and stiff that a robot would do it better !!! And the people behind the camwra how in gods name did they get this job, please join workers at McDonalds ! They should pay me for this time I never will get back looking at this sh..t !!! Who put upp the money for this turkey of a "movie" and the same people should put up more money for acting lesson for the 2 main caracter. And even more money to send the director and producer to a doesent school and learn how to make a dessert movine, beacuse this is not, do something else instead like put yourself on fire feels better !

It felt like watching porn, sans the smut. The actors really were so bad, I expected them to throw off all clothes and get down to business any second.

It could've been fantastic in it's own genre, had they done so.

Still giving it a rating of 2, because in some twisted way I enjoy suffering through a really bad movie.

Toward the end, things speed up and it's all very anticlimactic. Seems like everyone is tired of the whole mess, can see there's no way to make the movie any good and just want to wrap it up and call it a day.

To my horror, after it's over, they reveal that there are more movies featuring the same, wooden Russian character as the lead. They're just as bad as this, I'm sure.

I'll probably watch them, when I'm in the mood for some punishment.

It would be mean to spoiler and deprive you of the watching joy, thus i limited my reviews to points which became better:

1. The plot - elaborated and consistent - great work.

2. Landscapes filming - just magnificent panoramas.

3. Shooting scenes - inheriting the best of westerns 4. Operator work (i rate some sequences better than in John Wick) 5. More first-class actors and new faces 6. Sudden comeback of some previous characters 7. English of the starring Alex Nevsky

One star less since the movie has too much flashbacks to the Gunfight at Rio Bravo.

The fan base knows the original by heart. And if you don't know it, just watch first.