Sometimes you find some nice little gems on the streaming services, but this wasn't one of them. Many times I'll question a film's low rating here on IMDb when I thought it merited a higher one, but I think this is the first time I've run across a movie that rates higher than it deserves. This seems to be confirmed by the low number of viewer ratings (as I write this), eighteen of which rate it higher than an '8', and only eleven that give it a '6' or less. Mine will be in the lower portion.
The first thing that stands out is the unevenness of the episodes. There are four, which vary in length at 21, 30, 21 again, and 19 minutes. It's a total of ninety one minutes which makes you wonder why it just wasn't made as a full length picture. The budget could have been a problem without knowing anything about that. There are also continuity issues in play, like the time Deputy Boyd McAllister (Chad Thackston) asks a member of his two man posse to go to town to advise 'Clarence' to be on the lookout for outlaws Luke Young (Brian Elder) and Lem Sinclair (John Hall). But the guy he sent off is in the very next scene as if he didn't leave at all. Later on, while on the run and in hiding, Luke knocks over a wooden crate creating a disturbance heard by one of the deputy's sidekicks (the one who was sent to town). But when the man goes to investigate, the building Luke and Lem are hiding in are some distance away, far enough that the noise made wouldn't have been heard in the first place. Probably the weirdest was the inclusion of a new and ominous character at the end of the third episode named Mason (Bentley Mitchum), but after that, he never showed up again!
So all in all, this isn't one of the finer Western series or movies you might turn in to, and I have to presume that the ten viewers rating this picture a '10' never saw "Unforgiven", "High Noon", "Shane" or "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". If they had, the difference in quality would have been more than apparent. This can all be best expressed by the promoter in the third episode right after the Asian martial arts guy Arthur/Ace (where's his credit?) knocks out Luke in that street fight - "That's it ladies and gentlemen, fast and embarrassing!"
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