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Gallowwalkers
When a nun broke her covenant with God to save the life of her unborn son, Aman, he was cursed for life. As an adult, Aman has killed those who have crossed him. But his curse brings his victims back to life and they pursue him for revenge, so Aman enlists a young gunman to fight by his side against his undead victims.
Release : | 2012 |
Rating : | 3.6 |
Studio : | Boundless Pictures, |
Crew : | Mixing Engineer, Stunt Double, |
Cast : | Wesley Snipes Riley Smith Tanit Phoenix Steven Elder Jenny Gago |
Genre : | Horror Action Western |
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Best movie ever!
When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Just to clear an obvious misunderstanding: The movie is not about "zombies", it's about what could be thought of as "Revenants" or "Wraiths". OK? Fine, let's proceed.I think I rated "Gallowwalkers" somewhat higher than most of the commentators here, because it caught me in the right mood. I was home sick with a cold, and needed something pretty and striking to look at to pass the time.The sets, the costumes, the makeup, the photography, the music...all extremely well done and evocative. And the actors do their damndest with their thankless, cardboard parts.(Casting was excellent, too - everyone here is photogenic and charismatic as can be). So what's wrong with "Gallowwalkers"? Oh, well...it's pretty, but essentially empty. Key scenes make no sense, characters pop up out of nowhere (like "Skullbucket") are immediately disposed of again. And it drags just a little too much, here and there. I am sure the filmmakers were so in love with the visuals and the snappy, epigrammatic dialog that they didn't see the problem with all those lingering shots of bodies and sand and gore and figures on horses posed on top of dunes.It's all too much of a muchness. And in spite of the fact that it's an interesting germ of a story idea, the setting and the situation (sort of supernatural Spaghetti Western) still feels derivative and done to death. (See what I did there?) So: great movie to give 2/3rd of your attention to, or just something cool to look at when that's all you need. Or if you're willing to watch anything that reminds you of Sergio Leone.
I managed to get through all of this film on the second attempt when I knew I was less likely to fall asleep or get so frustrated I would watch something else.The film is just incredibly tedious and boring to watch. The story just doesn't hold one's attention long enough to feel any connection to the characters whatsoever. The characters themselves are one- dimensional cardboard cutouts that move around on the screen.There is acting talent in the cast but it doesn't come through in this stylised movie. It is very rare that it takes me two attempts to get through a film - even the really bad ones. Not that this is a badly made film - it just has nothing going for it.How on this earth it cost $17 million to make I will never know.
Cowboy Cardinal? This is a grab bag of weird.You weapons... you will not need them.This movie elongates all dialog and scenes needlessly.That was unnecessary.Someone is obsessed with long blonde hair.I feel like a worse person for having watched the whole thing, but I don't blame Wesley -- he's getting back into it.
Well, this is a load of impressive looking nonsense. Style over substance just about covers it. In this Western horror effort, Wesley Snipes plays Aman who leaves the girl he loves alone one day whilst selling animal skins. During that time, she is gang-raped by a motley crew who leave her with-child. When he discovers this, he is heart-broken about what happened during his absence. To make himself feel better, he leaves her again, this time for five years, only to return to find she died giving birth. This improbable story is told entirely in flashback by Aman and is incredible in its illogical and inept oddness. The reason such a revelation is condensed in such a fashion seems to be that the rest of the running time can then be left to consist of non-eventful scenes that are massively over-choreographed, and while they are visually impressive, there is no naturalness to them whatsoever. Neither to the cast of alleged characters, who aren't introduced, aren't explained, but to make them 'interesting', speak in gruff-voiced cliché throughout.The idea of Snipes playing a loner out for revenge against a horde of zombies in the unforgiving heat of the desert is a very appealing one. The trailer, whilst very stylised, seemed to promise much. And yet 'Gallowwalkers' flounders, and what story there is is laborious and crippled by constant flashbacks, bad wigs, posturing and overtly dramatic line delivery. It's a curiously lifeless exercise – there's a handsome budget on display and some stunning cinematography, but there are no characters to relate to, no emotion and no trace of tension or scares or anything, really. In fact, if you've seen the trailer, you've seen the best of the film. My one personal highlight was noticing, quite unexpectedly, 70's children's television entertainer Derek Griffiths briefly as a heavily made-up peripheral character Mosca.Snipes had several problems throughout, due to tax problems and subsequent arrest. Perhaps the delays this caused threw the production schedule into disarray and accounts for the choppy tone of events (and for the many close-ups of Mr Snipes – many long-shots seem to feature a body double). But as to the po-faced dullness, the lack of anything for the audience to invest in, the non-existent story, incompetent lip-syncing, the absence of thrills who can possibly say? Perhaps the fact that the film was released (straight to DVD) eight years after production commenced tells its own story, which is more than 'Gallowwalkers' does. A gruelling experience.