Director:
Kieran Darcy-SmithGuión:
Matt CookCámara:
Jules O'LoughlinMúsica:
Craig EastmanReparto:
Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, William Sadler, Alice Braga, Raphael Sbarge, José Zúñiga, Emory Cohen, Jason Carter, Felicity Price, Giles Matthey (más)Sinopsis(1)
Texas, 1887: un lugar lleno de leyenda, tradiciones y violencia. El profético Abraham Brant (Harrelson), conocido por todos como El Predicador, tiene un control, casi de culto místico, sobre los habitantes de la localidad fronteriza de Mount Hermon. Historias relacionadas con la guerra, asesinatos y lo divino le acompañan a dondequiera que vaya. No muy lejos de esa aislada población, en las orillas de Río Grande, empieza a aparecer un gran número de cadáveres arrastrados por la corriente. David Kingston (Hemsworth), un Ranger de Texas, harto de la guerra, recibe el encargo de explorar la zona de Mount Hermon para tratar de localizar el origen de los misteriosos asesinatos. Por un capricho del destino, Abraham fue el hombre que, en un sangriento duelo, mató al padre de David cuando este era un niño. Con sentimientos encontrados hacia el personaje, David y su hermosa mujer Marisol (Braga) llegan a la idílica localidad de Mount Hermon. Pero, mientras David se siente dividido entre su deber hacia la ley y un poderoso deseo de venganza, no tardan en descubrir que nada de lo que conocen acerca de Abraham, Mount Hermon o los asesinatos es lo que parece. (Divisa Home Video)
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Awfully boring. Also, pretentious and so terribly long...
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A lot of western movies have emerged in America lately. They probably feel that it is time to go back to this genre, so they found a couple of screenwriters who embarked on the revival. From the beginning, The Duel allures you by the historical locations, just so it can then bore you to death with the plot of the movie, where nothing interesting happens at all. Woody Harrelson plays a very interesting character, but what’s the use of it when he plays it in a film that is shot in such an uninteresting way. He cannot save the film either and then all that is left for me is to leave it with the average three star, which is saved a bit at least by the ending.
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I found it almost unbelievable how much Woody Harrelson resembles Michael Berryman, and I don't mean that as an insult to either of them. What got me even more was the slow pace of this fantastic western, fantastic mainly because something relatively new is added to the classic theme of revenge/manhunt. It works and only confirms that the western genre has got the green light again after 2010.
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The umpteenth variation of the same thing, a modernly conceived western that honours archetypal traditions, but at the same time tries to refresh the genre with a more modern script concept. That is to say, Woody Harrelson is not a classic redneck leader, but a head cleric who has everything in his district under control until the peculiar and soft-spoken ranger Liam Hemsworth arrives. The incomprehensibility and uselessness of the side characters may shatter the film a bit in its genre purity, but the final carnage, like in Bone Tomahawk or Salvation, saves it quite decently, although of course the clichés cannot be absent.
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