Cowboys & Indians (2011)

Powerful

Fantastic!

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Lighting is bad. In the same scene, some skin tones were washed out while others were almost totally unlit. The sound is bad (speech is similar to 'projecting' high school stage actors before rehearsals are complete)The amount of stereotyping is shocking; Native American war chants and 'whooping' are only one example. Actors seemed totally unconvincing. At the date of this review, there were 13 ratings of 10/10 and some reviews were written in decent English but were totally accepting of the nearly unprecedented-for-even-modern-TV flaws (November update, the trend continues: out of 139 ratings there are now 18 ratings of 10/10. Making this more suspicious, there is only 1 rating of 9/10 and another 2 ratings of 8/10. On the 10 point scale, the median rating is a more representative and honest 2/10). My guess is that the cast, and the directors etc, solicited friends and other friendly people to watch and vote on, and in some cases review, this mess (The November update data above suggest that that guess is still on target).

Would give it one star but the sheer horrendous nature of the film gives one at least a little bit of fun mocking it.Where to start.The acting and script are beyond bad. It seems like they were almost trying to be more campy than the old racists Westerns from the 50's and failed. I an shocked they were able to find that many really horrible Amerind actors. I've seen third grade plays with more depth to the characters.Set and costuming: Okay I get that they have no budget but honestly the anachronisms were over the top. Surely there must have been someone around at the time that could have dug up some props that weren't entirely composed of shiny new plastic. None of the weapons, be they native or European, were period and the costumes seem to be entirely composed of items the director had found in the back of his closet. I imagine the beads were probably left over from the previous years Mardi Gras celebration.Would not watch again. Wish I hadn't watched in the first place.

"Leading my men up there would be sheer suicide." A type of "peace" has existed between the white man and the Indians mainly because they have avoided each other. After a little skirmish breaks out a woman named Patricia (Maloney) has been taken by the Indians. When no one is up to the task of rescuing her it is up to a former officer Captain Bugle (Cowan) to go in and get her back. There are some movies that are better then you expect them to be based on your expectations. The same goes for some that you hope to be good but when they aren't as good you say it's disappointing. Then there are movies like this one. The kind that is exactly what you expect. I expected absolute low-budget lameness and that's what I got. The acting and the action (seems like they are using walmart bows) are laughable but I will admit that I kept watching just to see what they will come up with. I again am left wondering though why the western genre has fallen off lately. I wish they would make more then one good one a year. Overall, a laughable western that kept me watching just to see what awful thing they will come up with next. I give it a C-.

A BURK BROS Film.This western is so true to the traditions of the Wild West,The real west not the REEL west .There is a desert,Real deserted not a effect and real horses and a real ghost town setting,See it can be done even with the little budget allowed for this film.The star is nicknamed 'Bugle' and he can get in a duel or two or three…The fights are really the best scenes,A Gun duel with 3 mean cowboys and a sword duel with a Mexican captain and a tomahawk duel with a real Indian.That's another great point their are authentic( got tired of overuse of real) indians Playing the indians,Imagine that in a Hollyweird Western,Won't happen ever .Great effort,Hope it gets picked up for distribution somewhere,Deserves to be seen as a reference for bigger budget films.Oh,And in the grand tradition..'Bugle' is played by a former pro footballer like John Wayne and Alan Autry were former footballers…Something in the game reminds us of The Real Wild West !