Boring and pretentious

Rating: 4/10 (12 March 2011)

What a boring movie. My kids wanted to see this, and their general opinion was "well it was OK I guess". Maybe this is a good movie for the 12-15 male crowd. My wife fell asleep, thank goodness she doesn't snore. I'm going to skip how the plot doesn't make sense, or how the "bad guy" rattlesnake doesn't get any comeuppance, or any of the other zillion plot holes, and I'll concentrate on the character. In particular, I didn't feel that the title character was interesting at all - In the beginning he was just a wannabe actor. But by the end he was... well, the sheriff, but all it took to change him was a chat with Clint Eastwood. There was no real catharsis. One minute he was an actor, and the next, nerves of steel.
My advice: Don't see it unless you like formulaic boring movies. And it does play the formula.