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Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

What? You know that something went wrong in marketing a movie if it has 3 titles on an internet search. The Mountie, the Lawman, Way of the West. Perhaps the first is the best.. but there goes any chance of a US audience. Maybe it would have been better to keep that title and market it with subtitles to a world audience. Comments from others indicate they were expecting an American Western which it is not. Some can't get the mix of cultures. Well, the film is set shortly after Alaska was acquired from Russia; and guess what- the land was sparsely populated. FYI Yukon almost 150 years on still has a total population under 40,000 in a land area approaching that of Texas.Awful poetry read by a child? Well, the words are those of Robert Service, the unofficial poet of historical Yukon. If I had expected a "Western" I would have been disappointed. But thankfully I had a review from The Toronto Globe and Mail appear thanks to Google which was intriguing. Google it under "The Mountie". Looking for an "operatic" theme movie more in the tradition of Quebec cinema. This is it.

I suppose this movie was made for television. And even for television it is not good enough. It starts okay but the further you get into the story the clearly it becomes that this is a mediocre movie. The last half hour is even disastrous to me. The script is not good at all, the actors are mediocre, their lines are so cheesy you wonder who comes up with something like that. The only good thing about this movie is some nature landscape shots. For the rest I would avoid this as the pest. The good reviews it gets on here are clearly written by people that had something to do with the movie. And those reviewers will fool you. They prefer lying then telling you they failed. Don't waste your time with this one.

This incredibly good and very entertaining movie has three titles: Lawman, The Way of the West and The Mountie. What the heck ever its called its the best thing to come out o Canada in many a year. Straight forward but without sentimentality it tells the story of Western Canada in its lawless years when the British Columbian province was full of Russians, who brought their Cossack mentality with them. The brutality shown in the film is appropriate to the situation that the people find themselves in. I have read most or all of the reviews on this film and I feel there is a prejudice against Canadian film-makers by Americans who perhaps were looking for more of a Clint Eastwood take on this story, but this is the wilds of Western Canada in the late 1800s or perhaps early 1900s, I don't think it is mentioned. The man playing the Mountie is excellent and the woman with the scar is a great actress who says a lot just with her eyes. The casting in this movie was fantastic. If you want a great movie to watch this is the one. I don't work for anyone associated with this movie and I live in California and am a Nam vet so I have seen violence. I recommend this movie above almost any other Canadian movie I have seen. StocktonRob

The first thing you have to know is that the summary for this is not only poorly written, but also fairly inaccurate. It doesn't really matter, however, as the summary only vaguely sets up the fact that there's a Mountie (obvious) and he has to fight some bad guys (also obvious). So the fact that the summary still manages to be so inaccurate is kind of baffling. As for the movie: It's a pretty good looking film almost by default because of the beautiful barren landscape where it takes place. The tone here is melodrama all the way and its effect is intensified by the wooden performance of the lead. He delivers every line with the same tone and appears to be the proud owner of a single grim expression. The rest of the cast aspires to broad clichés, to match the stilted dialogue. None of them bother to generate any chemistry as the effort probably seemed pointless for a film made of such tired beats and scenes.There are many poor choices here. We've got villains who seem to think every act of violence they commit is worth a mean chuckle. A woman who is shot in the chest, so at the end you see she now has to walk with a crutch. A child doing several mind numbing recitals of Robert Service. Basically, this is an uninspired and unambitious film that doesn't even succeed at what it attempts. Quite disappointing.