Texas Rangers (2001)

User Rating:

5.0/10   

Director:

Steve Miner

Writers (WGA):

George Durham (book)
Scott Busby (written by) ...

Release Date:

30 November 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Western | Drama

Tagline:

Count Your Bullets.

Plot:

A ragtag group of youngsters band together after the American Civil War to form the Texas Rangers, a group charged with the dangerous, ruthless duty of cleaning up the West.

Plot Keywords:

Texas | Texas Ranger | Mexican | Cattle | Law Enforcement

Cast

James Van Der Beek	...	Lincoln Rogers Dunnison
Rachael Leigh Cook	...	Caroline Dukes
Ashton Kutcher	...	George Durham
Dylan McDermott	...	Leander McNelly
Usher Raymond	...	Randolph Douglas Scipio
Tom Skerritt	...	Richard Dukes
Randy Travis	...	Frank Bones
Leonor Varela	...	Perdita
Brian Martell	...	Jean-Pierre Marsele
Alfred Molina	...	John King Fisher
Billy Morton	...	Abajo
Kate Newby	...	Henrietta Dukes
Robert Patrick	...	Sgt. John Armstrong
Gordon Michaels	...	Mariachi Guard
Joe Renteria	...	General Cortinas

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for western violence.

Runtime:

90 min | Argentina:89 min | USA:110 min (original version) | Germany:86 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Portugal:M/12 | Iceland:16 | South Korea:12 | Finland:K-15 | Argentina:13 | Germany:16 (DVD rating) | Spain:7 | UK:12 | USA:PG-13 | Australia:M | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Brooks, Alberta, Canada

Company:

Greisman Productions

Trivia:

Unused score composed by Marco Beltrami

Goofs:

Continuity: In the camera shots between Lincoln Rogers Dunnison meeting George Durham and arriving in Brownsville, Lincoln's facial hair changes as his sideburns get thinner and change shape.

Quotes:

Older Ranger: [hesitantly watching King Fisher and two men approach] King Fisher... What?s your business here?
John King Fisher: I've come for my beaves.
Older Ranger: This is a public auction, Fisher. You?re welcome to bid when the time comes.
John King Fisher: I bid fifty.
Auctioneer: [confused] Fifty what?
John King Fisher: Fifty of them.
[fifty of Fisher?s bandits ride in behind him, weapons drawn]
Older Ranger: [afraid] I can't let you take these cattle.
John King Fisher: Draw!
[Fishers bandits slaughter everyone]

Who to blame?

Who do you blame for a movie like this? When you watch a movie you can easily blame an actor for not putting in a good performance, a writer for a flawed script, or a director for not getting the right job out of an actor, or a casting director for a miss-cast. In this movie you can blame all of them, but, the bulk of the blame goes to one certain group: the producers.

Alan Greisman and Frank Price must step up and take most of the blame for what is wrong with this film. This was a get-rich quick scheme that got what it deserved. When you set out to make a movie only for the money, and not for the movie, and there is no heart in it from the producers, this is what happens. There must be an undying passion from a film maker for it to show up in the final product on the screen. Here it just didn't happen. No heart in no heart out.

Money talks and bullshit walks, and if you look at the following numbers, you can figure out which one this film is:

Production Budget: $38,000,000

Total US Gross: $623,374