Review of The Rider

The Rider (2017)
6/10
Tried Too Hard
19 February 2019
This movie feels like it was filmed in a near-perfect simulation of the modern day Wild West. I say "near-perfect simulation" because it works when it lets the actors act like cowboys but when dialogue is brought the film falls apart. The acting when the characters are just acting like cowboys and not talking to each other about their problems is phenomenal. The problem is that this isn't a cowboy documentary, it's a drama. Most of the cast, to my knowledge, are actual cowboys so naturally they act well as themselves. Unfortunately, the script comes off as unnatural often. The story itself isn't bad, it's just the little lines of dialogue here and there that are disingenuous and they are so frequent that it has a negative impact on the movie as a whole. The cast did a fantastic job almost everywhere else in the film.
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