Gunfight at Rio Bravo

This is 21century My Darling Clementine and John Wayne's Rio Bravo and The Searchers.

Exquisite camerawork, masterfull acting, that even Stanislavski would belive to be real.

No really, the acting is out of this world... Alexander Nevsky signature technique is recognized right away, film's director makes a cameo worthy of Alfred Hitchcock's cameos, Joe Cornet's penetrable sight takes a breath away and almost makes you feel like a guilty puppy.

Extremely happy to see ''the one and only'' the legendary Olivier Gruner making a dramatic return to a big screen.

But my favourite part of the picture is...hands down... the mesmerizing and ''the beast of a man'' Matthias Hues. Let me tell ya.... this dude is the epitomy of masculinity and character acting.

He took the best from Charles Bronson, Chuck Norris, Amayak Akopyan, Brad Pitt, Samuel L. Jackson, Soso Pavliashvili and sir Nikas Safronov.

This is a truly terrible movie. The acting is extremely wooden - if they'd employed high school drama students they would have done a better job. The plot was nothing but western action movie cliches, strung together one after the other, without any development of tension. The only point of the movie seemed to be to see if Ivan Turchin can be the next Arnold Schwarzenegger. And the answer is - No, he can't. While Arnie was wooden at times, he always appeared to have a sense of humor bubbling away in the background. This movie takes itself totally seriously, and it's so bad it isn't even funny.

East Texas is piney woods. The topography in this movie is more desert southwest. Could be west Texas, but no way is that east Texas.

That aside, I was expecting this movie to be a kind of a reboot of the John Wayne classic "Rio Bravo". It wasn't. Not really. The 2 movies do have similarities, but I don't think it could be considered a reboot.

I'm not a huge fan of westerns, but did like a few of the classics with The Duke and a few other classic western actors as well.

This movie was ok, I guess.

Now I'm just filling space in my review. I mean, who requires a minimum number of characters for a review. The administrator must be a high school English teacher.

This is a comedy Western.....isn't it? Surely it's not meant to be serious. The dialogue and acting are indeed laughable but the writers forgot to add the intentional jokes and left in the unintentional ones. Every cliche, every plot point, every character, every attempt at conveying emotion.....all been done before and better.

The multi-lingual cast may be fantastic actors in their natural language. But if they have learnt this dialogue phonetically, as appears to have happened with this movie, it really doesn't help the action or the story.

You know the phrase "so bad it's good"? Doesn't apply- it's so bad, it's worse.

Im a big Western fan so I indulge in some of the low budget films. This one is better then most. Very basic story but one that has worked well over the years. A good pace with lots of action - no big special effects but some enjoyable action scenes. There was decent acting and characters you bond with. All this packed into 80 minutes. Very enjoyable if you go in with an open mind and view it for what it is. If you under some delusion that this low budget TUBI movie is going to be a classic - well of course you will be disappointed. All in all for me it was an enjoyable experience and would recommend this to any Western fan.