Brothers in Arms (2005)

User Rating:

2.0/10   

Director:

Jean-Claude La Marre

Writers:

Jean-Claude La Marre (story)
Jean-Claude La Marre (screenplay) ...

Genre:

Western

Tagline:

A revisionist western

Cast

David Carradine	...	Driscoll
Gabriel Casseus	...	Linc
Saye Yabandeh	...	SALOON LADY
Antwon Tanner	...	Zane
Kenya Moore	...	Mara
Raymond Cruz	...	Reverend
Kurupt	...	Kansas
Ed Lauter	...	Mayor Crawley
Clifton Powell	...	Doc Willoby
Peter Greene	...	Burt
Jared Day	...	Wolverton's Nephew
David Gianopoulos	...	Wolverton
Idalis DeLeon	...	Sheriff Sanchez
Cameron Monaghan	...	Timmy
Lene Pedersen	...	Saloon Girl

Also Known As:

Click: Brothas in Arms (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, language and a scene of sexuality.

Runtime:

85 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Argentina:16 | Singapore:M18 | Iceland:16 | Netherlands:16 | South Korea:15 | USA:R | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Quotes:

Driscoll: No-one , I mean no-one crosses a Driscoll and lives to tell about it.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Brothers in Arms: The Making of a Modern Western (2005) (V)

Cowboys in da hoods

Rap hip hop cool western, yo! A gang of black cowboy gangstas are planning the biggest heist of their lives. A fortune is passing through a small bank in a godforsaken town ruled by a sinister tyrant and his sadistic son. The paths of the gang and the tyrant passed before, and sweet revenge or brutal death is imminent as they meet again.

Now, this actually sounds quite intriguing to me, but there is one huge problem: The movie actually takes itself dead serious, while it on the best is a big joke.

OK, I can try to ignore the girls in the movie has silicon enlarged lips, with a tattoo outliner and a nice lip gloss thrown in, looking like some random prostitutes dragged off the street, with much less acting skills than you would expect even from a female of that given profession.

I can also try to ignore the desperate attempts at trying to be new by putting every known western cliché upside down, like the women are the strong ones kicking the guys butt, the black people are the cool dudes from da hood untouched by the slavery common a the time, while the white guys at best are stupid and pathetic cannon fodder, or at best evil and rotten to the bone.

I bet the director would be sued for racism if he movie had all the black guys exchanged with white guys. Not that I care about the political correctness of a movie, if the movie is good anything flies.

But, what kind of mindless, drug abused mind have come up with the plot?? I mean, some guys come up with the brilliant plan of walking straight into a bank loaded with treasure yet with no guards whatsoever, flash a gun, take the money before some guy chasing them magically appears outside from nowhere and we have a final shootout.

THATS IT! Swallow it down with some oh so deep soulshattering philosophy about bonds between brothers are stronger than life and death, made into a joke by what is possibly the worst western movie ever made.

I thought it would be refreshing and new, but they killed everything good about western movies, and added a bunch of boring, cliché-filled, badly executed elements instead.

I will even go so far to say that I can in fact enjoy a good turkey, because it becomes so bad it is actually fun to watch in good company, but this.. This is not even that.

Don't SEE THIS MOVIE! IT IS A TOTAL AND UTTERLY WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY! If you need to see an alternative Western movie, see Wild Wild West with Will Smith again instead, it is mindblowingly better than this load of humus.