A Reckoning

If you have a short attention span, as many others that left a review have, then this movie is not for you. There aren't horse chases, fist fights, or lots of gun battles. It's a simple movie about a woman searching for her husband's killer. She spends most of her time alone traveling through a largely uninhabited wilderness. The cinematography was very good. It looks to my eye to have been filmed in the northwest USA. I suspect this is a lot more true to life, during the time period it portrays, than the big budget shoot 'em ups that the other reviewers so desperately wanted this to be. It's not a bad movie, it's just a movie that todays adults, with their video game addictions, and there constant need for entertainment, can't cope with.

Wow...decent start...then nothing happens . I could not even get thru the first half hour. This women starts to ride off looking for her husbands killer..but where is she going? There are no clues to follow as far as I can see....then the next 20 minutes all you see are scenes of her riding, making a campfire, etc. Lost interest by now...shut it off. Back to Redbox...glad it was only 1.50 dollar rental.

(2018) A Reckoning WESTERN

Written and directed by Justin Lee that has Mary (June Dietrich) seeking retribution after her husband was discovered mauled. And she offers the property that she owns in exchange for a gun and a horse so she can go after the person who has done this. Lance Henrickson also stars as the mouthpiece of the tent group attempting to convince Mary not to go and do this since they already got bounty hunters and so forth to do this. He only appears at the beginning and that is it, for the rest of the movie has Mary trekking the man responsible.

Although it is a western, much of the movie takes place in the forest. It's a poor attempt to duplicating a much superior Western like "Hostiles" starring Christian Bale from 2017. The forest environment did not bother me, but the inconsistencies did, like the guy who took Mary's horse, forcing her to walk. And after she succeeds to killing him, she never bother to retrieve her horse back. And the main bad guy, Marrow (Kevin Makely), I mean, what's up with him! How come the only bullets he has are the ones on his holster? Where is his gun belt? Cannibal killers, particularly do not carry a pistol without gun belts.

Clearly one of the worst movies I have watched, and I am 60 years old!

Watch the first 5 minutes, then skip to the last 5 minutes. This is nothing more than a 10 minute movie, at best. There are more scenes of rivers, streams and oceans than anything else of importance through the middle of it.