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Lancaster plays Judge Dredd, Western style.

Advantages: A movie ahead of it's time
Disadvantages: None

LAWMAN- A Review By Addy "He gave the West justice right up to its neck…then rammed more down its throat." This is a deep action packed Western that in my opinion is aimed directly at adults due to understand the complexities of the characters. Do not let the fact this movie came out in 1971 deter you because this is no Randolph Scott style dandy Western movie. This film comes with a 15 certification, and this is probably largely due to the blood ...
...a dispersal of blood shooting into the air. One other scene see's a guy sitting on the floor placing a 45 colt under his jaw and squeezing the trigger. The result of this is crimson blood gushing out and saturating his shirt. The gunfights may be a tad graphic but I believe it is in keeping with the whole intension of the film in creating a mature, gritty, realistic, authentic Western. Also may I stress that whilst there is blood etc it is not what ...

tayloa22 28.08.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Lawman (DVD)

McNally's off to Rio Lobo

Advantages: some good acting, OK story, great music
Disadvantages: Nothing new from John Wayne

Rio Lobo sees John Wayne paying the role of Colonel McNally who is working on the trains during the civil war. He is sending a train load of gold to another town but it is robbed and he has to set about trying to find the culprits. Much to McNally’s disappointment he is captured by the enemy and he has to lead them to safety but before long the roles are reversed and McNally has them as prisoners of war. The two prisoners are immediately set free ...
...sets off back home to Rio Lobo but the other, Cordona stays to help McNally when a young woman, Shasta, comes into the bar who is being chased by the deputy of Rio Lobo. It is soon discovered that the deputy is one of the train robber but he is shot dead by the young woman. McNally decides that he must head to Rio Lobo to find out what happened to his gold and to help Shasta. Will McNally be able to uncover the truth and help Rio Lobo with the aid ...

sewbizzie 01.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Rio Lobo (DVD)

Guess What? John Wayne is a cowboy, Again!

Advantages: Lovely scenery, great music, average story
Disadvantages: John Wayne, a western

...his collection. This film being Chisum which was made in 1970. At the very start of this film we see John Chisum sitting on his horse looking out over his vast expanse of land and his cattle which are grazing on it. Next we meet a gang member and his gang who are paid by a man called Brady to go after Chisum and kill him so that his land will become available. The gang go after Chisum’s cattle and shoot it so Chisum goes to find them and after a ...
...the gang disappear. Chisum is then making his way to the town to collect his niece who is coming to stay with him but once he gets into town he finds that lots of the properties have been bought by a man called Murphy. Murphy is trying to take over the whole of the town and the surrounding land. Chisum is also introduced by Murphy to the new sheriff, which turns out to be Brady. Chisum goes to the US Calvary to sell his cattle as he has done every ...

sewbizzie 13.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Chisum (DVD)

Ultimate Cult Movie

Advantages: One of a kind. Weird and Surrealist. Undergound
Disadvantages: Graphic sexual violence. Animal cruelty. Confusing plot.

El Topo is a psychedelic, surrealist, muti-leveled, psuedo western. It was filmed in the late sixties by Chilean maverick Alejendro Jodorowsky who is notorious for never getting films made. If you are a fan of weird and wonderful cult cinema then hold your breath because this film is for you! Fistful of dollars this is not! I first heard about El Topo in the eighties, John Lennon and Dennis Hopper claimed it was their favorite film. It earned this ...
...film! After some initial weirdness El Topo is sent to kill four masters to prove his worth. One master is an armless man with a legless man on his back, another master is kind of like jesus and lives in a hut. There is plenty of bloody gunfight action inbetween theological discussions (the effects were done by the crew who did the shootout at the end of 'The Wildbunch'). Towards the end it starts to turn into a bizzare version of Tod Browning's Freaks. ...

fraz1511 16.03.2007 · Read full review
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Review of El Topo (DVD)

Hard time for Harrison

Advantages: great 1970's Western
Disadvantages: i dont understand Sioux

...with no more respect than a wild animal, and badly treated and beaten, eventually given to a squaw to use as a workhorse. Hence the title ' A Man name Horse'. John befriends another lost sole Batise, who was also captured by the Indians some 5 years earlier, and who is treated in a similar manner. Batise has come to learn the Sioux language, and is able to help John learn and survive, together they plot there escape. But as John comes to learn ...
...potential viewers, but the is a superb western, The effects when John is put through a tortures initiation ceremony are cringing to say the least, Most of the language is spoken in Sioux, but this doesn't detract anything from the film, if anything improves the realism. The director also seems to have got it right, the brutal manner and portrayal of their laws and practises gives you an understanding into the lives and ways of the Indians. Richard ...

dreamscancometrue 05.01.2006 · Read full review
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Review of A Man Called Horse (DVD)