A weak 5, mostly for the try, and as an acclaim to lifting the wild west genre on the silverscreen witout too much rott gore and evilness...
but making the perfect wild western aint done in an instant, and the one thing you need most of all is patience... something this production crew didnt. I might be grumpy and meager but editing together a msequence where god almighty's big lamp, the sun , switches on and of at each cam shift, and the sky goes from clear to cloudy in an instant, that is amateurism. That happens only in vacumized and presurized containers in real life so big flaw there. The plot in itself is workable and couldve been a major hit, but its distracted bya slow nitwit dialouge of nonsense, where the toughness hangs about the moustache, and the final outcome so bleached due waiting for it all to holler off in crimson red... i think a cloths mysterious path towards a climax would be far more seeworthy than this slowfox gunshot polkadotted final.
Nick cage, well ive nothing against him, he does his part the best hes allowed to be, the child actress, is fair and square allright, the rest of the main cast and stunts aint less than c-worthy.
Every nice wild west saga made in the past have always been supported by a musical score to remember, its not that excellent, but it rises the quality of the final product.
So a tiny recommend from the grumpy old man, they try but fails alot at production and plotspeed.
