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DVD Cowboys & Indians
 Run time: 86 min Rating: 2.6 Genres: Adventure | Family | Western Director: Aaron Burk, Tyler Burk Writers: Aaron Burk, Tyler Burk Stars: Alvin Cowan, Steve Guilmette, Katy Maloney |
| Storyline With the fate of the frontier hanging in the balance, a former cavalry officer is called back into action to rescue a beautiful maiden from the clutches a band of renegade Black Claw Indians led by a frightening medicine man. |
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| Details: Country: USA |
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"Leading my men up there would be sheer suicide." A type of "peace" has existed between the white man and the Indians mainly because they have avoided each other. After a little skirmish breaks out a woman named Patricia (Maloney) has been taken by the Indians. When no one is up to the task of rescuing her it is up to a former officer Captain Bugle (Cowan) to go in and get her back. There are some movies that are better then you expect them to be based on your expectations. The same goes for some that you hope to be good but when they aren't as good you say it's disappointing. Then there are movies like this one. The kind that is exactly what you expect. I expected absolute low-budget lameness and that's what I got. The acting and the action (seems like they are using walmart bows) are laughable but I will admit that I kept watching just to see what they will come up with. I again am left wondering though why the western genre has fallen off lately. I wish they would make more then one good one a year. Overall, a laughable western that kept me watching just to see what awful thing they will come up with next. I give it a C-.
Lighting is bad. In the same scene, some skin tones were washed out while others were almost totally unlit. The sound is bad (speech is similar to 'projecting' high school stage actors before rehearsals are complete)
The amount of stereotyping is shocking; Native American war chants and 'whooping' are only one example. Actors seemed totally unconvincing.
At the date of this review, there were 13 ratings of 10/10 and some reviews were written in decent English but were totally accepting of the nearly unprecedented-for-even-modern-TV flaws (November update, the trend continues: out of 139 ratings there are now 18 ratings of 10/10. Making this more suspicious, there is only 1 rating of 9/10 and another 2 ratings of 8/10. On the 10 point scale, the median rating is a more representative and honest 2/10).
My guess is that the cast, and the directors etc, solicited friends and other friendly people to watch and vote on, and in some cases review, this mess (The November update data above suggest that that guess is still on target).
I just got done watching this movie. I rated it as a "1" only because the scale didn't go any lower. This is, by far, the absolute worst film I've ever had soil my poor eyeballs. I have to echo the sentiments expressed by some of the other reviewers about the poor acting, shoddy camera work, and generally bad editing.
When writing a review there's a "spoiler alert" button you need to click if your review contains any. There's no worry about that with this film. The only thing that's going to be spoiled is the 86 minutes you will lose out of your life watching it. It's sad because I've seen a lot of bad movies. Most have some redeeming value that present the possibility of them becoming a cult classic in the future. There's no such hope here.
The best (and funniest) thing about the movie was reading the end credits. The two brothers sure wore a lot of hats.
This is the worst, I have seen better by a high school student. Too bad, good actors must start somewhere I guess. Who would write such crappy lines, using toys arrows, wow that was cheap. The trailer is deceiving, or misleading, it made you think it can be a decent movie. I think this movie should be shown to all future film students as an example of what not to do. This should be a fist year student, film critique project, make a list of what was good about the movie and the list would be extremely short. The woman Indian was so bad , I don't even want to give her attention even for being bad. That's how bad she is. I hope most of these people have a regular paying job, because this should not be a career for them . I would not make my worst enemy watch this.