Timegate: Tales of the Saddle Tramps (1999)
While visiting a historic Western town, two women (Amy Lindsay and Kim Yates) are transported back in time to the Old West. After being mistaken for new recruits for the local brothel, the women hook up with some cowpokes. But their erotic escapades end up ruffling some feathers, and when the deputy winds up dead, the posse's hot on their tails for answers. Now, they must get back to their own time before they wind up jailed or worse.
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In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?
This review contains spoilers.In this early Surrender Cinema softcore offering, Kim Yates and Amy Lindsay get transported back to the old west. They become prostitutes, have sex with a priest, get thrown in jail, and escape. None of those things are actually related though.There are seven sex scenes. Six are boy/girl and one is boy/girl/girl. All of them are good. I thought the two scenes with Kim were the best. In addition to Kim and Amy, we also get an eyeful of Amber Newman, Shannon Malone, and Taimie Hannum. Since this is a Surrender release, the only thing you hear during the sex scenes is music. The sex isn't as hot as some of Surrender's better releases, but it's much better than their worst ones.
With its preposterous name and inane plot (modern women accidentally travel back in time to the wild west where they are mistaken for prostitutes), this movie seems like campy fun. But it's not. The creators take themselves very seriously and briefly attempt to touch issues of racism and violence. The end result is a movie that isn't funny, isn't campy, and is painful to watch. If you're looking for something cheesy to watch, look elsewhere.
I knew that the real reason I rented this movie was because of the title. Who can resist Tales of the Saddle Tramps as a name? I should have known better, and I will never rent movies like this again. The acting was unbearable, the lame sets were something out of Wild West Town, and to top it all of, it was borderline soft pornography. The best thing about this movie was returning it back to the video store where I got it. Do yourself a favor, and don't bother with this poor excuse for a movie.