Overview
- Released on June 13, the film marks Richard Gray’s return to Westerns and pays tribute to midcentury B-Western style.
- Pierce Brosnan stars as Sheriff Gabriel Dove, whose measured authority offsets Samuel L. Jackson’s flamboyant drifter, St. Christopher.
- Brandon Lessard portrays Henry Broadway, a young man drawn into a vengeance mission that unravels through shootouts and hidden gold.
- Reviews diverge sharply: Variety applauds its nostalgic action sequences, while The Washington Post criticizes its slow pacing and underdeveloped plot.
- The story centers on themes of revenge, justice and shifting moral allegiances in a frontier town, though some critics contend it leans too heavily on genre clichés.