This is an acceptable movie, but not a great movie. It isn't "Tombstone" or "The Outlaw Josey Wales"... but the stars really look good. "Attractive TV stars join the Texas Rangers and bring law to the West." The bad guy is really bad, the young idealistic good guy is really good, and the haunted, cynical mentor of the young idealistic good guy is kinda mixed.
Not too many surprises: I think the reason I am not rating this movie higher is the elements of political correctness that have crept into this 1870's era Western: The idealistic young woman who wants to know if the Texas Ranger asked the names and served warrants on the accussed before using deadly force, the wisecracking black ranger doing an Eddie Murphy "Beverly Hills Cop" imitation as he crept up on a camp of vicious outlaws... in these cases, I lost my "suspension of disbelief" and said to myself "no one in this situation would have said or acted like that"... it was distracting. Welcome to 2001.
Dylan McDermott was good as the angst ridden Captain... there is some good action scenes and the scenery is excellent. If you like Westerns it is worth your time. You won't feel bad about going.
Not too many surprises: I think the reason I am not rating this movie higher is the elements of political correctness that have crept into this 1870's era Western: The idealistic young woman who wants to know if the Texas Ranger asked the names and served warrants on the accussed before using deadly force, the wisecracking black ranger doing an Eddie Murphy "Beverly Hills Cop" imitation as he crept up on a camp of vicious outlaws... in these cases, I lost my "suspension of disbelief" and said to myself "no one in this situation would have said or acted like that"... it was distracting. Welcome to 2001.
Dylan McDermott was good as the angst ridden Captain... there is some good action scenes and the scenery is excellent. If you like Westerns it is worth your time. You won't feel bad about going.