writetopcat The worst movie I have ever seen, of any genre. The dialogue was awful, the acting was awful, and much of it did not make sense. Will Drake, the civil war sniper reputed to be able to hit a man from 1000 yards away, was hired by the owner of a bank to help protect his bank from a gang operating in the area. Will took his rifle out to practice. He set a coffee pot on a stump about 10 yards away and could not hit the thing. When he held the rifle on the target, the muzzle end was swaying all around just before he fired. He is a sniper?!?The bank owner said he would be situated a long way from the bank, and picking off bank robbers from a distance. He had sought out Will Drake specifically because he was a skilled long range shooter (supposedly). But Will set up his rifle in a hotel room right across the street from the bank. When it came time to shoot, he missed the first 5 times he fired, FROM ACROSS THE STREET!Even David Carradine's performance in this movie was bad, WAY below the level of acting he delivered in his other work. The conversations between characters is very hard to watch and listen to. It seems that they filmed one guy speaking his line, then filmed another guy speaking his line, and so on. Later they tried to piece it all together. It is disjointed. The delivery of the lines was awful also. There are some poorly made films which are nonetheless fun to watch: Plan 9 From Outer Space is one. But this film is just bad. If you have not seen it, don't.

gt65-799-292643 Combine a western and David Carradine and you would think you could not lose but this film actually manages to disappoint.Starting with the video, there is something terribly wrong. It looks like a failed class project at a film school. The transition between shots is rough and occasionally mistimed. The quality itself gives the appearance that main characters were filmed in front of a projection screen rather than on scene.The audio is horrible. It sounds as if the entire audio track was recorded in a studio and then dubbed onto the film. It does not always appear to coincide with the mouth movements of the actors. The background sounds seem to be missing and just do not sound natural.The acting is horrible with some characters appearing to simply be reading for a part.I actually bought the used Blu-Ray for $1.34 thinking I could not lose. I was wrong.

boomeranghandknits I'm not related to anyone in this movie, I myself wasn't in it, and so nobody should be able to accuse me of bias for this crummy review.The acting was bad. David Carradine was bad! The writing was something I could have done in high school drama class as a skit; the scenes were choppy and made no sense. There was one point where a "corpse" in a coffin breathed, which just made me laugh. I didn't get some of the shooting scenes. Really, one guy was had a through-and-through shot in the chest, blood spattering everywhere on the wall behind him, and he dropped like a rock, the next scene he's in he's got his arm in a sling and the bullet's in his arm. Those Civil War sharpshooter rifles were meant to be accurate, but if the shooter is no good the best rifle in the world do you any good.The horses...What can I say? The outlaws' horses looked very well-groomed and well-fed for outlaws' horses. On the up side, they were beautiful horses (aren't they always?).Yes, this was an independent film. Lots of mistakes are obvious, like the lack of sync on the voice and video tracks. Indie films are usually slightly better than this though. I can't even credit Jim Hilton with a good performance, because it wasn't good in MY opinion.I'd like to say something good about this movie, so here it is: While not entirely accurate to the period, the costumes and some props were fairly close. And the "bad guys a-comin'" music wasn't entirely awful. Not great, not awful either.On the whole, don't try it. It's not worth it.

dbborroughs Weak shot on video western feels more like dress up then a real film. The plot has a sharpshooter going west to get away from his past and ending up in with some of the wrong sort of people. David Carradine wanders through as a marshal trying to keep the peace. Set in California but filmed in South Carolina, or so the small amount of the audio commentary on the DVD lead me to believe this is a film where nothing seems real or right. The locations seem most of the buildings seem like they don't belong in the west at the time. The clothing is too perfect and of the wrong era west. The action seems staged and at half speed. Its the sort of thing you might see on stage or at a wild west show. Its made worse by the lack of excitement on the technical end (the shots seem to to have been put together in long languid takes that make nothing seem like its in a hurry even when it should be. The result is a dull unexciting film that only those who must see every western ever made will want to bother with.