War movie, frontier movie, gangster movie, ROUGH MOVIE!

Rating: Null/10 (13 May 1999)

In the middle of watching this movie, I wished my brother had been alive to see it. He liked spaghetti westerns, and Tristan certainly resembled a spaghetti western "hero". The Colonel was a typical Anthony Hopkins character right up to a crucial point and then became a typical "grizzled old coot" western character.
Is it a war movie? A western? A gangster movie? It is all, it is none. It is just ROUGH, as Tristan's character is rough, as the Colonel is rough; nothing can abrade them, nothing can break them, nothing can tame them; the Colonel was somewhat civilized from the beginning, but never tame; and the final showdown is all one could hope for.