I watched another terrible Christopher Forbes western on Tubi. David Carradine got top billing although he appeared only briefly, following in his father's footsteps. It was advertised as his last appearance in a western. I looked the movie up because a website listed it as Forbes' least-liked movie.
I'm afraid I'm writing the same thing over and over.
It was unwatchable like the rest of Forbes' movies, confused and pointless. I knew vaguely what it was supposed to be about from the description. A former Civil War sniper goes West.
There's no way to convey how truly awful it was, but user reviews on IMDb try to point out the flaws, like they're trying to give constructive criticism. The sound was bad, the acting was bad, some of the sets weren't very good. Like if they corrected these things the movie would have been passable. None of those things bothered me in the movie.
But it got distribution. The DVDs are sold in Wal-Mart and it's on streaming video. Some said that film students should watch it to see what not to do, but it would be more helpful to figure out how this abomination was commercially viable.
It looks like they rented costumes, had real guns, filmed on real western movie sets, and they had horses which not all extremely cheap westerns do. That's all it takes.
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