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That was an excellent one.

A lot of fun.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Western featuring a great main and support cast , though this sat on the self for almost two years dealing with events happened after American civil war , a decade later it ended , the prior Texas Rangers had disbanded to fight for Confederacy and the Union Army was occupying Texas , charged pmainly with defending Texas from defectors depredation and Indian attacks . Texas governor asking for help McNelly to form a company of Rangers to defeat the banditry along the Mexican frontier . Some cheerful greenhorns who volunteer to fight outlaws along the Rio Grande in 1875 Texas . As youngsters ,Jamen Van Der Berk , Usher Raymond , Jon Abrahams and Ashton Kutcher , band together and enlist the famous Texas Rangers commanded by the mysterious McNelly : McDermott. All are robbed of their families by the bad guys led by the really nasty Alfred Molina . The demanding mentor teaches them to shoot and kill at whatever mean . Then , Van Der Beek to avenge the death of his family and becoming an aide to the unit's enigmatic commandant against the rustling racketeers who continue committing daring robbery raids and bloody massacres. This Western is not bad , but its script is derivative , plain , superficial , and simple . The picture has fun thanks to the breathtaking battles , noisy action and moving raids .There is a long passel of shootouts , assaults , attacks , hanging and slaughter , but taming the West takes a backseat to deep drama centered primarly about ailing starring's fate in this vengeance oater .Beautifully edited widescreen with impressive photography in Panavision by Daryn Okada , along with rousing musical score by Trevor Ravin .Casting is pretty good but hindered by weak screenplay and filmmaking . Acting honors go to Alfred Molina playing magnificently a sneering villain .After sitting on the self for 2 years , yella-belled studio exects denied the stale oater an advance screening , well aware of its weak appeal. This western revenge actioner was professionally directed by Steve Miner , in spite of failing at boxoffice .Other films concerning about Texas Rangers are the followings : Texas Rangers 1936 by King Vidor with Fred McMurray , Jack Oakie ; The Texas Rangers ride again 1940 by James Hogan with Jon Howard , Broderick Crawford ; Streets of Laredo 1949 by Leslie Fenton with William Bendix , William Holden ; Texas Rangers 1951 by Phil Karlson with George Montgomery , Noah Beery , Gale Storm .

Before this cardboard farce the worst movie ever made about the Texas Rangers was King Vidor's 1936 sandbox play like. Then came the 1951 carnival sideshow starring George Montgomery. But that was not blasphemy enough. Now we have asinine coupled with patently absurd. Hollywood has nothing but absolute contempt for reality. This movie is the nailed down, undeniable proof. The problem is Hollywood is proud of that fact. First of all, when a man decided he wanted to join the Rangers he came to them with a good horse, saddle and tack. He also brought a rifle, a pistol and a big knife. This movie has urchins with only the clothes of their backs welcomed. Ranger badges did not even exist during the time period this picture is about. To show Ranger hopefuls taking target practice at Ranger badges is less real than them shooting at Ranger badges with ray guns. Everyone connected with this movie should be forced to watch Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde" three times a day every day for 10 years to understand what B.S. really looks like.

I never heard of this film before seeing it listed on Showtime. I thought it was a fairly decent film...even when I saw "Dawson" and then "Kelso" come on the screen. Nevermind Usher being there too. I thought..Oh great...this will be so lame. Not so. It could have had less scenes where the good guys were riding hell-bent for leather across the plains...it was shown over and over..I wondered if the same areas were used for each of those scenes? It was some what predictable most of the time too...of course you knew the Mexican girl wasn't dead...the attraction between her and Lincoln was too obvious for her to die so soon. I was surprised that Aston could do serious acting..his stint as Kelso seemed to be the extent of his screen talents in my opinion...sorry..he isn't a big deal to me as far as Hollywood "stars" go. Being married to Demi means na-da..big deal. Anyway...I liked it..enjoyed it...and wished it had been a stronger movie all around. The characters needed more depth..we needed to know when, why and how they came to all be where they were. The director, producer and others cashed in on the two main stars being so hot at the moment when this film was made. With a little more effort it could have been a HUGE film...which I think it should have been. Instead..it ended up on a video store shelve somewhere and of course..offered for free on channels like SHOWTIME. Pity. I would have paid to see it on the big screen if it had been showcased as a blockbuster.

Who do you blame for a movie like this? When you watch a movie you can easily blame an actor for not putting in a good performance, a writer for a flawed script, or a director for not getting the right job out of an actor, or a casting director for a miss-cast. In this movie you can blame all of them, but, the bulk of the blame goes to one certain group: the producers.Alan Greisman and Frank Price must step up and take most of the blame for what is wrong with this film. This was a get-rich quick scheme that got what it deserved. When you set out to make a movie only for the money, and not for the movie, and there is no heart in it from the producers, this is what happens. There must be an undying passion from a film maker for it to show up in the final product on the screen. Here it just didn't happen. No heart in no heart out.Money talks and bullshit walks, and if you look at the following numbers, you can figure out which one this film is: Production Budget: $38,000,000 Total US Gross: $623,374