I am disgusted that it is a western
356713
This is not worth the $1.60 spent to rent it at Redbox. I am disgusted that it is a western. Kurt Russell does the only good acting and I cannot believe he agreed to be in this film. How embarrassing for him. What a waste. Cardboard used for a splint, really. A man with a broken leg trying to rescue his kidnapped wife from cannibals. Ughhb.... The movie is very fragmented and at times, I thought someone was just videotaping something like a home movie. Stupid premise.....cannibal Indians....really. Completely ridiculous. Don't waste your time.
4104376
This movie was absolutely the poorest excuse for a modern day western or any genre I've ever encountered.  No value whatsoever and continual bad language made it really unbearable to watch.  If I were the producer or director--and I think you know who I mean--I would be SO embarrassed for releasing such garbage!!  The picture on the front of the DVD was terribly misleading!!  Only wish I'd known.  IMDB was NO help!!
4934827
A bunch of white dudes try to beat a white chick to this secret cave where there is a secret treasure of indian gold in 1869 Texas. The acting is terrible, the script is laughable and the ghost wolf looks like a cheap halloween costume. Typical low budget mistakes, trying to do a horror with no money and using non actors. I paid 99 cents for this movie and I think I overpaid by about 98 cents.
3723571
Ok: fictionalizing history a bit for the sake of entertainment is ok but this is rediculous.
This movie is an insult regardles of the grandeur of it's cinematic scope or it's swollen
cast of movie stars. The west was won by thievery. The west was won by brutalizing the
native inhabitants. The west was won by murder and genocide and lies not this poppy-cock
American myth. OK OK I know it's hollywood entertainment but the sad thing is: too many
Americans watch stuff like this and think this is how it all went down.
Anyone who watches this movie should follow it up by reading Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee.
I dare any of you to turn off the high-def 40 inch TV for a couple of days and read some real history.
It'll hurt a bit but it's worth it.
420794
I kept waiting for it to get better and then one scene got so overly graphic we had to turn it off. It's too bad, I had high hopes between it starring Kurt Russell and being a western, but this movie was terrible.
4944757
This book was not worth the time to read. I do not understand how so called authors can write a book without an ending and then expect you to buy their next book to see how it turns out. This is worse than the old serial westerns they used to show at the theaters every Saturday morning at least back then you only had to wait a week to see how things turn out.
When I pick up a book to read I expect that the book is the complete story with an ending which this book leaves up in the air, I knew no more at the end than I did when I started the read. I also don't appreciate the low regard that the author has for the Catholic Church.
871012
Often enjoy westerns, however this is just an exercise in how much gross disgusting behavior and graphic violence the viewer can tolerate. The WORST movie we have been exposed to in a long time. Total waste of time.
1388605
This "Western" is more like a school assignment or short story written for a magazine.  This would have made a good book if not for the hasty story this author is calling a book
2946057
Wow!! I can't believe this book got such high ratings. All I can say is I'm glad it was free. The writing was childish and the story predictable... Bad guy rides into town, meets up with Jess, bad guy dies, undertaker comes, Jess flips him a $5 gold coin. Jess flips everyone a gold coin.
But Jess is the 'good guy' so he never gets questioned. Pure garbage.
And there is a whole series of Jess Westerns. I like reading westerns but no thanks to this series.
586348
This is one of the worst westerns I have ever seen. It has some campy 1950's style and soundtrack to it, but clearly it is not designed to be a campy film. I have no idea who the blond woman is on the cover of the DVD and why they even show guys riding horses when clearly both were way out of their budget. In one scene, bad guy Big Ben (Jurgen Vollrath) turns to the  supposed saloon crowd and tells them to get about their business. You never see any crowd. They didn't have any extras. Sheriff Mason (Peter Whittaker) is handcuffed to outlaw Hubert (Ian Quick) in the desert. They were mistakenly left there to die instead of being killed outright. The sheriff's wife is forced by Big Ben to be a PG saloon girl.

The two handcuffed men return for revenge in a movie which boasts a cast of nine people. The final shoot out involved 6-shooters being shot dozens of times without a reload. They had CG fire coming out of the nozzle of the gun...when they showed it. Normally they shot the scene with the nozzle end cut off, so all you got to hear was the noise of the gun. Poorly acted, poorly written, poorly directed, poorly funded. Cliche filled. MST laughable.

No bad language, sex, or nudity.
4913272
I think the director, actors, writers and just all involved should be ashamed.  This is not worth looking at.  The title should be "Ashamed".  Almost no dialogue and all the shots are actors back and butts, give me a break!!!  And turn down that ridiculous soundtrack !
2777285
Gritty harsh realistic western. When I saw the actually copyright date I thought this would be lame. If the wild bunch and high plains drifter had a baby This would be the result.  Why did I like it? The west has been glorified a lot. Good or bad you knew what was what. The line is so blurred here you just want the lead to kill and survive. Edge is not what you call a good man but you know from the first chapter why.  If you are looking for a good western series you have found it.
739369
One of the poorest acted, directed, and set westerns of all time.  They begin the land rush in a region that LOOKS NOTHING LIKE the geography of Oklahoma....instead of the flat grasslands, they shot the scene in an area surrounded by steep mountains!  Absurd.  Also, much of the dialogue is cartoonish and simplistic, maudlin.  The Oklahoma Land Rush is indeed a great subject for a film, but this ain't it.  If any movie BEGS to be re-done, this is one.  Not worth anyone's money.  And, it doesn't do any justice to the book, either.

One scene is enough to make my point.  The cartoonish drunk and the stereotype "doomed drunk" have a shooting contest at two bottles which the "evil" cartoonish drunk forces a man to hold.  The movie is SO dumb they have Ford's pregnant wife as apparently so stupid she stands behind the guy holding the bottles!!!  In other words, she's too dumb to know to get out of the way.  What drivel.
2300675
This movie was made in the days before film-makers realized that people were sophisticated enough to recognize corn when they saw it.  Horz Bucholz's impetuous kid act was just total corn.  Talk about bad acting.  Robert Vaughn deliberately affects some kind of bizarre weakling voice quality.

 The whole premise of the movie was that the villagers were wothless cowards but Bronson goes off his head proclaiming how brave they are because they're dirt scratching farmers.  The 40 banditos ride into the village and the hired guns(the seven) expose themselves in positions where they could easily be shot by less than half of 40 banditos.

The banditos get the drop on the seven when the seven return to the village and the ultimate in movie absurdity happens.  The banditos let the seven go on their merry way AND give them their guns back.  Any self respecting Mexican bandito would have slit their throats, but not in this fantasy universe.  This is truly one of the worst westerns I've ever seen.  I just don't understand why this movie has gotten the hype that it has.  Probably simply because it had Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen in it.
4530982
..but this movie is surely one of the worst I know. The plot follows, friendly speaking, "conventional lines": cannibalistic "savages" kill more or less innocent settlers, a husband on his literally last leg tries to save his wife and succeeds, in the end all bad people are dead.
And don't get me started about the very nasty "tasty human meat" scene near the end - you really don't want your children to see that, neither is it the funny "Quentin Tarantino" type of killing.
While there're indeed not many good westerns today - stay away.
2704764
F*this and F*that not quite correct for a western movie that took place in 1880. A couple of laughs but not much. I can see why it didn't last long on the big screen.  Don't waste your money wait until it is free then you won't feel bad when you shut it off in the middle of the movie.
3205931
This book wreaks. I cannot remember ever reading such a poorly researched and horribly written diatribe on one of the old west's most colorful and interesting characters.

Doc Holliday, according to authentic old west historians, was a very complex, multi-faceted man. Roberts would have you believe that Holliday was nothing more than a one-dimentional Saturday Morning cartoon character; shame on this author.

The utter trash that gets published these days, incredible. Worse than that, I was dumb enough to buy it.