I read someone else's review of Rust

I haven't seen the movie Rust but I read a review of it on the Variety website. Turns out it's two hours and thirteen minutes long and they called it an "indie art Western". The plot doesn't sound promising but I don't think any Western plot sounds like it'd be any good. I guess there was Stagecoach which started out as a drama and didn't turn into an action film until the last reel, and there was A Fistful of Dollars only because it was a rip-off of Yojimbo. But there's just not much you can do with such a stupid genre. I became weirdly fascinated with westerns because they're so popular outside the U.S. Both the Dalai Lama and Josef Stalin liked them. I can't imagine what they saw in them. It seems crazy that Alec Baldwin and the director, Joel Souza, had any enthusiasm for this thing.

I'd see westerns as a kid and was always on the Indians' side. They had long hair, looked like hippies and their shoes looked really comfortable, not like the stupid-looking high heeled boots the cowboys lumbered around in. The whites just looked like stodgy 1950s people. I think there was more than one episode of Gunsmoke where they talk about what a nice guy someone is and say, "Why, he doesn't even carry a gun!" Are these people you'd want to be around?

In pretty much any Western. if you see someone in jail, you know full well you're going to see them break out. In Rust, Baldwin breaks his tween grandson out of the slam to save him from being hanged. Maybe they do it in a way that's fresh and original, but I doubt it. 

But I should watch it before I express any strong feeling about it. An "indie art Western" actually sounds interesting. 

They're charging $6.99 to see it on streaming video. I'm going to have to give it a while.