Michael's Movie Grade: B
A highly entertaining neo-western.
This film follows various different stories that all end up tying into each other. How well these stories tie together is probably the movie's greatest asset. This is masterfully done and these stories that at first seem to have no relationship to each other all meet up perfectly. This movie also benefits from its ability to shift tones from very quirky comedy to quite serious. It does this so naturally that you often won't even think about it. The quirky tone to much of the comedy also works great. I love how unabashedly over the top the humor is here. It is often quite funny but even when it doesn't make you laugh it still has its quirky charms. The same thing can be said about the characters. These characters may not be deep or complex, but they have quite a bit of quirky charm. This charm is enhanced by a very game cast that includes Sydney Sweeney, Paul Walter Hauser, Halsey, Eric Dane and Zahn McClarnon. However, it is child actor Gavin Maddox Bergman, who steals the show as a young white boy, who believes he is the reincarnation of Sitting Bull.
As a huge country music fan, I also loved this movie for its soundtrack. Sydney Sweeney's character wants to be a country singer, and she has darn good taste in country music. Because of this you get to hear Emmylou Harris, Geroge Jones and Tammy Wynette on the soundtrack. This of course endeared the movie to me automatically.
Writer/director Tony Tost (this marks his first feature film as his previous work has been on TV series) was obviously very inspired by the films of Quentin Tarantino and the Cohen Brothers. This can become a little too obvious at times. The breaking up of the movie into chapters feels kind of pointless here unlike in the Tarantino films that inspired it. With the lack of depth to its characters and story, even if this is a good movie (which it is) it unfortunately has to live in the shadows of its influences.
Despite any flaws though this is a very fun and entertaining movie.
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