Lasso

What an awesome surprise! We just watched the premiere at the Oakland International Filmfestival and were blown away. This movie will be an instant fan favorite ... in its deviousness reminiscent of Tucker & Dale and Peter Jackson's Braindead it delivers the most outrageous kills with sardonic consequence .. anything you can imagine doing with branding iron, cattle prod and horseshoe - the movie has it and more .. 2 points aubtracted for the cringe worthy dialogue .. it feels surprisingly sloppy given the overall care that has been put into the film (direction, camera work, production design and F/X are excellent). All in all a very funny romp. 8/10

In your average type horror film you usually have the bad guy or guys, chasing the scantily clad young woman or women and possibly a guy or 2 but they'll die first. In Lasso, a truly different gore-fest, you have women, seniors, a seemingly helpless young guy, and a cowboy with one arm, all running and fighting for their lives. Throw in a rodeo clown with rainbow striped suspenders and this is a very enjoyable thrilling, horror film. You don't exactly know who is going to die, which is great, it's suspenseful and also witty and having seen it twice, it's memorable. It definitely deserve much higher than it's current 4.7 rating.

I found this movie the other day. What a find. Lots of Blood and Gore. I Luved It. It did start out a bit slow, I was beginning to wonder if this was a horror movie. Usually these movies start out with a killing. Once the movie picked up, it got better. Good story and special effects. I would say it was pretty original. Glad that I saw it. I wouldn't say that for much of the horror movies that I see. Average horror movies rank at a 3-5, this is much higher. Check out this one.

It's undeniable that "Lasso" resembles a movie and there are even examples of the movie having some style, care and love put into it. But it's also a stupid movie. Characters, though somewhat interesting, often act stupidly, violence is over the top (which doesn't match with the serious tone movie is trying to have) and the whole thing just lacks polish, atmosphere and talent to be better than it is. We have a main character that looks and acts like an illegal son of Enrique Iglesias and he is often irritating because his personality is that of a weak and scared city boy who is incapable to man up and face the situation until, predictably, the very end of the movie. And I know that's the point, but it doesn't make it any less irritating. His female counterpart isn't any better and manages to be a less engaging character than him, for whom we at least care for because the majority of the movie is based on his perspective. While the movie isn't so bad you will cheer for it to end (movie has a cool ending scene with a good song), it's just not what I would call a good movie and I fail to see how one of my fellow reviewers could give it 8/10 with a clear conscience while praising the unpredictability of the victims among characters like it's some kind of a monumental achievement. All in all, I think "Lasso" has an appropriate score on this page and that's why I will give it 4.5/10! It can be a onetime watch for genre fans and provide some entertainment, but it's ultimately a below average horror movie.

So "Lasso" delivers the goods in spades with gore and some gnarly scenes. Psychotic Cowboys. A novel idea! Yes? A group of Seniors and a few stragglers on a field trip end up at a rodeo that is revealed to be anything but routine. Soon they end up on the proverbial chopping block.

The movie is a brisk 90 minutes and cuts to the chase... We don't get any backstory on the baddies. Nor do we get much backstory on the victims either. I was hoping for maybe more chase scenes. But overall It's no dealbreaker for me. Still it would've been nice to get just a little more story on both parties. Why are the Rodeo workers doing this? Who knows!

The film also looks and sounds great. The calibrated weapons of choice are also a nice touch. On paper a roving gang of homicidal Cowboys sounds silly. But it makes the most of the absurd premise. It plays it fairly straight.

Still with it's very minor flaws the film is pretty enjoyable. Shakespeare this is not. Rustle up some grub or a brew and enjoy the show Hoss. Yeehaw!