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‘Gunslingers’ Review: A Posse Seeks Stephen Dorff’s Neck in High-Body-Count Western
Brian Skiba’s Kentucky-shot Western also features Heather Graham and Nicolas Cage among good guys fighting many baddies to bloody ends.
Edwin S. Porter’s 1903 “The Great Train Robbery” is widely regarded as one of the first major narrative films — using a then-advanced clutch of techniques to tell a real, almost epic (at 12 minutes) story rather than simply to record a vignette. The last (“Guns of Redemption”) came out just last month, and given its overlaps in theme and location, may well have been produced back-to-back with “Gunslingers.” That output’s general quality level suggests a good policy going forward would be “Slow down, pardner.” These films seem designed to check off a few standard boxes for genre entertainment, no more and no less. He finds asylum in a town called Redemption, where the entire population is said to be “wanted, dead or alive.” Their game is to fake their own hangings and burials — all duly recorded by resident photographer Ben (Nicolas Cage) — then live on under aliases following a baptismal “rebirth” from local preacher-leader Jericho (Costas Mandylor).
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