Billy the Kid (2013)

Excellent adaptation.

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

RELEASED TO VIDEO IN 2013 and directed by Christopher Forbes, "Billy the Kid" covers events when a bounty hunter (Cody McCarver) rides into the Southwestern town of Dogma intent on taking down a gang of outlaws called "The Four of the Apocalypse." Meanwhile, he meets a woman he knew years before (Kimberly Campbell) and her son, Billy (Christopher Bowman). Jerry Chesser emerges as the formidable main heavy.This movie only cost $500,000 so you have to be able to stomach micro-budget independent flicks and the limitations thereof in order to appreciate any attributes. I like watching spare-change films now and then and sorta root for them like you would a severely underdog team in sports. While there are some highlights in this film, like the soundtrack/score, some picturesque scenes and a few of the main cast members (noted above), the script needed more work because the story bogs down after the opening act. For instance, there's a lousy side plot about a goofy red-haired outlaw camping out in the town jailhouse and having a shootout with two old men. Most of the peripheral cast members aren't very good and the action scenes are okay at best, but neither would've been much of a hindrance if the story was strong and compelling. In short, without an engaging story everything else is worthless. Don't get me wrong, the plot had potential, but the script needed a lot more work. Interestingly, while the events are supposed to take place in New Mexico, the movie was shot mainly in South Carolina with a couple sequences done in Georgia and Kentucky. How could the creators possibly pull this off and make it look like the story takes place in the Southwest? Answer: They utilized several establishing shots from Lincoln County, New Mexico (with some featuring the loner protagonist). But everything else, like the lame "town" set, was shot in the East. THE FILM RUNS 1 hours & 20 minutes. WRITER: Graye Bumgardner. GRADE: D

Hmmmm where to start. Lets start with the four horsemen of the apocalypse. I have seen more intimidating geezers in nursing homes. These four old timers are gunfighters like carrot top is a ladies man. And 500,000 budget? On what the 200 dollar lumber job of a crappy town or the ridiculous fake guns? The acting was so abysmal I did not know whether to laugh or to cry. I could not imagine a lobotomy being much worse than this experience. Definitely a top 5 in worst movie of all time. Certainly wins number 1 for worst western of all time. So there is this scene where the scary bad guy ( age 80 plus) gimps into the saloon (smaller than my bedroom actually)and aside from a couple of tables and chairs the only thing in the bar is the very cheap little bar itself...and since there is no backdoor it is the lone object that the evil old fart could possibly be hiding behind. But alas our sharp witted hero and his fat helper walk in and look around then both turn their backs to the bar and start looking at the ground. Where could he possibly be? they seem to be thinking. Then...SURPRISE...gramps comes out from behind the bar and starts shooting. And here I thought that the hiphop witch starring vanilla ice was a bad movie .

One biggie of the film for people must be Billy The Kid. He's older looking than the usual and he's not the main character. This billy the kid, based on facts and fiction, draws from his years living with his mother, never knowing who his father was.I enjoyed the film for it's many perks. I do not get to see many westerns on tele or movies being away from the states, so it's nice to see them still being produced, even if it's independently. This Cody Mcarver is new to me and I applaud his tunes for the movie, although I do not like country music it fits into the movie very well. I do see that this movie has a possibility of a second and I would suggest that it involves more of the kid and his days in Lincoln. thank you.

man let me tell you this film isn't the greatest thing ever but with saying that check out its not on some young guns blazing guns and pulling grenades this more of a prequel of young guns and what happens to billy before he turns into an ALL BLAZED gangster I live in New Mexico so it's neat to see some areas i've been before but let me get back to the film it's kind of a late bloomer and dead at times like when bad actors get on the screen but to watch a movie and have a good time i gotta say this is one hell of a film and i love Clint Eastwood, John Wayne and all them blazing fools don't like the country music and the rock band kind of gets tiring after the same thing plays and plays but okay check it out