Judges (2005)

User Rating:

2.5/10   

Director:

Stephen Patrick Walker

Writer:

Stephen Patrick Walker (writer)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Western

Tagline:

There is no peace, only good and evil...know what side you're on!

Plot Keywords:

Biblical Allegory | Action Hero | Comic Book | Sergio Leone

Cast

DJ Perry	...	Buddy Colt / Jack Creed
Paul Ricioppo	...	Sonny King
Terry Jernigan	...	The Barber
Sean Michael Doherty	...	Iron Joe Parelli (as Sean Doherty)
Trent Brock	...	Danny Strong
Kera O'Bryon	...	Lila Wolfe
Patrick Walker	...	Blackjack Mulligan
Eric Feldman	...	Will Creed
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jose Acevedo	...	Barber's Man #1
Tyler Allen	...	Young Buddy Colt
Thomas Anthony	...	The Clerk
Cyril Augustin	...	Barber's Man #2
Andy Batemen	...	Speechless
Karen Beckner	...	Lisa Lonelyheart
Bill Bishop	...	Skinny Pete
Laura Cerdas	...	Temple Patron
John Coleman	...	Temple Patron
Leah Damon	...	Gina
Salvatore DiSalvatore	...	Temple Patron
T.L. Edwards	...	Temple Patron
Lindsey Fileccia	...	Sally
Alexis Fowler	...	Temple Patron
Larry Fowler	...	Temple Patron
Bob Galewski	...	Frank McBain
Mary Glynn	...	Temple Patron
Trevor J. Hands	...	Temple Patron
Richard Helsby	...	Temple Patron
Dave Hobbs	...	The Preacher
Craig Hoffmann	...	Barber's Man #3
Paul Huber	...	Barber's Man #4
Sylvia Hutson	...	Temple Patron
Walt Irby	...	Temple Patron
Ante Ivancoviec	...	Himself
A. Nick Jones	...	Temple Patron
Elizabeth Jones	...	Temple Patron
Lynn Kenny	...	Penny Strong
Sarah Lautenbach	...	Temple Patron
Todd Metzker	...	Crunch Matthews
Tim Morton	...	Deadhead
Antonio Moscatelli	...	Barber's Man #5
Lindsey Mott	...	Temple Patron
Chris Nelson	...	Davey Boy Smith
Oscar Quiambao	...	Irish Pat Kelly
Kwame Rakes	...	Harlem Brown
Peter Sashell	...	The Afrodeeshiac
Chris Savage	...	Temple Patron
Russ Stine	...	Father Kane
Todd Teagarden	...	Paleface
Kendal E. Tuttle	...	Shorty Armstrong
J. Darin Wales	...	Tex McKenzie

Runtime:

USA:90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Newport News, Virginia, USA

Company:

Rizzo Productions LLC

Movie Connections:

Edited into Behind the Scenes of 'Judges' (2006) (V)

Maybe a "B" Movie!

The acting was not believable. The music was as if the composer just bought GarageBand and wanted to have every genre of music in the movie. The sound effects are out of place (probably came from a CD of sound effects) and are overly done. The only interesting character is possibly the barber (who tends to remind me of Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday in Tombstone). As a student of film, I would have turned this movie off in the first 10 minutes since I requested to watch the whole thing, I did. The dialog was predictable and anticlimactic. I am not sure if it was my copy of the DVD, but there were lots of breaks in the audio that made it seems like its on the editing end. The voice dubs were noticeable with no ambient sounds in the scene to blend them in. One thing that stood out was the sounds of the footsteps, which there were a lot of. The movie should have been called Footsteps, because that's one thing I will remember - the shuffling of feet across gravel, the creaking of the wooden floors as someone was walking across, etc. These should have been blended in more with the editing. According to IMDb this movie was made for $150k. I have seen better movies made for less. It appears they, and I mean the director, writer, producer and editor (which is all the same), were trying for a Firefly type of story (minus the space travel and foreign languages - which given more money they probably would have had in there). But seeing how this is Mr. Walker's first full length feature movie, I imagine he will grow from it and learn from the mistakes and improve. Not sure if a sequel is needed.