Forsaken

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Wayne K Oct 17 A fairly routine Western about a man who’s renounced violence being forced to pick up the six shooters again, Forsaken is elevated from mediocrity by the strong performances of its leads, the fact that it treats its subject matter with gravitas, and explores some interesting township dynamics. You have the hired gun who’s just there for money, the greedy landowner with a broken moral compass, the sadistic henchmen who take a sick pride in the bloody work they carry out, the innocent townspeople who don’t want to get involved for fear of inviting consequences upon themselves, and caught in the middle is our hero, a war veteran who’s seen so much death and destruction that he can’t bare to experience it again. Kiefer Sutherland really sells the performance, creating a character that we empathise with, get frustrated with and end up cheering for. The climactic gunfight isn’t anything special, in fact it’s made to look all too easy, and the whole thing wraps up a bit to conveniently, with a concluding narration that appears nowhere else as if the budget ran out and they had to explain rather than show what happened next. Issues aside, it’s an enjoyable watch that doesn’t overstay its welcome and does what it can to make you care about its characters. In an era of soulless, bloated movies, it’s a refreshing change of pace. See more Glen W Oct 1 Fairly predictable story of the gunfighter who hangs up his guns, but has to come out of retirement just one more time. See more Ken B Jul 20 Terribly underrated western. Much closer to classic westerns before nihilism, moral ambiguity, and parody corrupted the genre. Of course modern critics did not like the movie. How could they? Their zeitgeist traps them in their historicity. Great acting. See more Frans B @FransB Jun 22 Such a stellar cast but a bit hollow in the inside. Feels like this movie needs some meat around the bones. Cast all convincing in character. The narrative has been around since the beginning of time but it is still possible to make something exciting and entertaining of it, this movie seems to fail there. A bit stale. Cinematography is good. See more Filmy M Mar 10 Nice ride till the end. See more Randy M Feb 18 Father and son , put on a clinic !!” See more Read all reviews

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