Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story (2016)

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

This is a unique film in that acting ability is inversely proportional to where the actor is ranked in the cast. Trace Adkins' bio is extremely heavy on his singing career, which ought to tell you his strengths do not lie in his acting ability. His performance as Nate Reed is consistently flat, one dimensional, and loud -- seems the sound mixer cranked up the mic volume for each of his lines. The unhinged marshal's female sidekick (a fetching blond) is equally one dimensional, but just plain evil; the mix of her looks and personal qualities strains the imagination. Story-wise, you can almost predict the next scene based on where you are...almost. We have a few of the "Three weeks before," "One week later," etc. helper screens that serve no purpose other than confuse you. However, about 10 years pass between when "the boys" have a shootout with the marshal and his mate, and Nate Reed is reunited with his wife long thought to have been killed in the battle. They now have a son about 10 years old (she was pregnant at the time of the shoot-out), yet nobody else has aged, and the wife looks better than ever. Perhaps most puzzling is the last few minutes of the movie, when the final showdown occurs and the bad vanquish the even badder. The good marshals show up to apprehend the bad marshal & company, and the scene cuts to Nate Reed leaving church with the family, he and his remaining stage-robber buddy now full-fledged law men. Crops are saved, nobody remembers, and all is forgiven. The more I think about it, the few stars I can give.

RELEASED IN 2016 and directed by Terry Miles, "Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story" stars Trace Adkins as a former stagecoach robber who turns over a new leaf and marries, but feels forced to turn back to outlawry when a one-eyed marshal tries to apprehend him (Judd Nelson). Kim Coates and Claude Duhamel are on hand as his gang members.Adkins makes for an iconic Westerner, as witnessed in "Traded" (2016) and "Hickok" (2017). The difference between "Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story" and those two is (1.) Adkins plays the main protagonist and (2.) it's noticeably inferior in overall filmmaking, even though it cost approximately the same amount to make. In other words, as low-budget as "Traded" and "Hickok" were, they worked quite well as made-for-TV (or direct-to-video) Westerns, all things considered. "Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story" is almost amateurish by comparison.Nevertheless, it has some points of interest for those who don't mind slipshod productions: Adkins is a likable protagonist; the one-eyed marshal was the dope-smoking rebel in "The Breakfast Club" (1985); Michelle Harrison is stunning as the protagonist's redheaded wife, Laura Lee; Helena Marie plays Bonnie, a striking tall blonde deputy with a penchant for killing; the British Columbia locations are effective; and there's a quality moral about not trusting people of dubious character, particularly LIARS.THE FILM RUNS 1 hour, 30 minutes and was shot in British Columbia (Mission and Maple Ridge). WRITERS: Dan Benamor and Matt Williams.GRADE: C/C-

I thought the story line and acting was OK, my only real complaint is the guns when fired sound like cap guns, six shooters are lot louder. So if you don't mind six shooters not being loud, good short movie to watch, at least it's not made in a desert, I like seeing trees in a western.

Alright, I love western movies and when I saw who the stagecoach driver was I was pretty optimistic (Kim Coates). However, the writing was poor and the acting lacked realism. I only made it 23 minutes which is after the first major shootout in the movie. Trace Adkins character takes a bullet in the shoulder and he proceeds to stand there and do nothing...they escape the house without anyone following even though they claimed there were 6 deputies outside (you never see them) and then that night Trace pulls the bullet out of his shoulder in about 3 seconds with a knife blade (which comes back to view with no blood on it) at this point I was done.