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Diablo (2016)

January. 08,2016
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4.5
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A young civil war veteran is forced on a desperate journey to save his kidnapped wife.

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Humbersi
2016/01/08

The first must-see film of the year.

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Bergorks
2016/01/09

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

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Jenna Walter
2016/01/10

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

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Rosie Searle
2016/01/11

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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mtownsel2
2016/01/12

I was not expecting a movie with such a perfectly, horrific presence and reality check of the horrors of war. I love the transition between the Scott Eastwood and Walton Goggins faces of El Diablo. It was so well done that I almost missed the obvious. How could Ezra keep pace with Jackson unless they were one and the same?I loved how Lawrence Roeck used Benjamin Carver, DannyGlover's character, to finally weave the two (Jackson and Ezra) into one person. I take my hats off to Carlos De Los Rios and Lawrence Roeck for designing a character so flawed in his own perception of the world; so lost in his own wickedness, and so far grace and humanity. Of course, Scott Eastwood's fair-face portrayal of Jackson plays into building upon your sympathies. We have all bought in false realities and if we were lucky, lived to regret it. In this movie, you also see a character, an excellent soldier, affected by his own engagement in the U.S. Civil War. There is no doubt that Erza is suffering from emotional effects of war on him as we know of them today as PTSD and other acute war-related syndromes. It's no surprise, once you understand the distress that soldiers experience during war, that they find it hard to be the same, emotionally, ever again. There is do doubt that war fatigue could turn the mildest of people into mentally traumatized killers. We all wrestle with the nature of our souls at times and we are not solder or we're never in the military. Jackson has not lost his soul. It's been possessed. His own dead brother appears before him as proof. The imagery was hauntingly relevant.Carlos De Los Rios and Lawrence Roeck have simply updated the reality of surviving the Civil War with accepted knowledge of the symptoms of psychological damage of being forced them to kill. In the case one peculiar consequence; a monster is born: Diablo - It's one Hell of a movie!

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mmartinez-04028
2016/01/13

One must wonder what some reviewers are talking about when they pan this film. Eastwood was accused by at least two of bad attempts to mimic his father's mannerisms. Perhaps he picked up some of his father's behaviors, as sons sometimes do and perhaps as he is an individual those mannerisms have his own touch in them. So perhaps, instead of accusing him of trying to look and act like his father, but failing, we could understand that he is not his father though he looks and acts somewhat like him. One reviewer took the movie to task for the fact that "they couldn't hit him from 30 feet. I wonder if that person ever fired a pistol at a person they know to be a deadly killer who had the wherewithal to return fire. I myself have not. I'm fairly deadly to a paper target from 30 feet. At 50 feet, with something to rest the gun on and plenty of time to aim, I'm not a bad shot. I can't help thinking as decent a shot as I am, I cannot say with any confidence that I could shoot and kill a killer gunman who was shooting back. That scene at the farm yard, The shooters were I'd guess, at least fifty feet from Jackson(Eastwood), a long shot for a pistol with a target that does not pose a mortal peril to you. That reviewer should read up on his wild west history. The shootout at the OK corral? Lawmen & outlaws were around 20 feet of each other and I forget how many bullets were recovered for the Earp's murder trial(they were acquitted) but it was a lot and those men were all very proficient with handguns. The most unrealistic part of the movie as I see it is the peyote trip. I have eaten peyote and the portrayal of the hallucination Jackson had was ridiculous. It looked as thought he was just darting his eyes round and round and up and down very rapidly amidst the trees. In fact the only things accurate in that whole scene is that some Native American peoples do use it for ceremonies, and you usually throw up a while after you eat the buttons, right about the time the trip is getting started. Peyote trips last for hours. Very shortly after Jackson runs from the sweat lodge to hurl, they decide he is evil and so must go immediately, yet as the boy leads the horse to his stashed gear he is no longer tripping. I love that they portray what must be PTSD. I thought to myself, I don't remember Another film dealing with it from the civil war. It's reasonable to presume it afflicted soldiers then as now, they maybe called it something else or didn't call it anything. In WWII and The Korean war they called it shell shocked. The reviewers who ripped on this movie with invective and hyperbole should calm down before they give themselves a nose bleed. Diablo might benefit from a little better direction, But the acting was excellent. What can one say about the inimitable Walton Goggins? Bravisimo! It was a good story, creative and somewhat original screenplay. It has beautiful scenery. Not sure where one reviewer got the idea that it was supposed to be California. Jackson said they took the trail down to New Mexico. No trail in Cali goes down to NM. Sure, the scenery Doesn't look like country I've seen in Colorado, which I have traveled in a bit, nor indeed NM, which I have lived in for the vast majority of my life. It's called suspension of disbelief, people and if you find that short leap too difficult, if that is something that "Ruined" or "rendered in-watchable,' this movie I'm afraid you have many more disappointments in store if you continue to view movies. One reviewer said it isn't a western, but a horror story. He and I obviously have divergent definitions of Horror story. As I say in my summary, Diablo is a psychological thriller in western clothing. Don't let the naysayers throw you off. Give it a watch. You'll be surprised (unless You read a spoiler).

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trashgang
2016/01/14

Isn't it dangerous to follow into the footsteps of your father? They will always compare you with your father. Just watch this western. Scott Eastwood is playing the leading role. Immediately you will think of the old spaghetti westerns with Clint Eastwood, Scott's father.Sure, Scott has the looks and sometimes he even has the same expressions as his father but does it make a good western.I found it hard to follow. The script is simple, save your wife being abducted by Mexicans. But it didn't work out as the old school westerns. The editing was terrible. Just look at faces how they are different between cuttings. Not only that, it even remind me of Police Squad. There's a shoot-out going on and people are maybe a few meters from Scott and still they can't hit him. Even the ending is awkward. Another gun fight and what is happening when they pull the trigger is never shown. Weird western that do has it moments but also has it flows.Gore 1/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

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scott_e_klein
2016/01/15

Somewhere between the 9th and 12th scene, E/Jr. is riding in the foreground and looking over his shoulder at a modern day town. True, when I stopped the movie, and looked, all cars and trucks were out of sight, but still...no single man on horseback would blow off coming into town without stopping by for a drink: either for his horse or himself. Im not sure if this qualifies as a spoiler alert, but its the scene prior to his meeting up with Danny Glover's character for the first time. What I hate about cheesy westerns, is that the director can't be bothered to show a cowboy bringing along feed in a bag for the horses, nor can he be bothered to show a colt .45 shooting only 6 shots. Burt Reynolds, in his autobiography "But Enough About Me" says "I guess that's why its called a colt 45, cuz the Director lets you take 45 or so shots before reloading." My family is native American on my mom's side, and horse wrangling ranchers on my dad's. So, yeah, this really bothers me. Get it right, guys, or I will stop renting your crap at the video store.

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