Lone Hero (2002)

Dreadfully Boring

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

This movie was shot on the same set as "The Wild One" 1953 Marlon Brando, yeah? It really looks like it. I don't know for sure, can anyone confirm? Motorcycles, small town set, someone help me here. Even the bar looks the same. The storefronts, everything. If it is the same set, what a poor tribute to the original. Most folks these days have not seen that movie, but it is a classic. Brando with his hat skewed, 50 years before Ashton Kutcher did it on "Punk'd". Black and white movies at their best. Beers cost coins. James Coburn is a young punk. Bikers are hep cats. Can't tell if Brando is a beatnik in a leather jacket or Hollywood just wanted the best of both worlds.

When you want a showdown, this movie is it! I enjoyed this movie very well. When you play a hero in the Wild West, it's about time you start being in real life. When a biker gang comes a rolling in your town, you gotta do what you gotta do. Act out you fantasy only with one exception, you must save the people you love, for real. Lou Diamond Phillips really played it down fast as the menacing Bart. He really went to far when he caught the hero's girlfriend who he broke up a while back and ripped open her shirt showing her blue bra. Very blood curdling. The show down was the best, when the hero and Bart do a ordinary showdown gun duel. It was no contest. He didn't kill Bart, because he knows he was being a true hero to himself. This is one of the finest western like action movie I've ever seen. Instead of regular horses, the outlaws came on Harleys. That what's makes the movie very interesting. I liked it! 5 stars! Truly original. The best I've seen!

I caught this on HBO late-night. The scenario is pretty interesting. A guy in a wild west show who is a slacker and was just dumped by his girlfriend is forced to take action when some bad dudes cruise into town and start messing things up. There are some good shoot-outs and fights and some funny lines. The best actor in it is Robert Forster. He plays a cranky old tough guy who is good with a gun.

This is a thoroughly acceptable retelling of the 'outlaws run amok in a good old-western town' scenario set in modern times. This film, which is technically an action/adventure, can almost be seen as an homage to the shoot-'em-up cowboy films of a bygone era. It pits a lackluster actor doing hourly shows as a badguy in an old-west theme town against a vicious, win-at-all-costs leader of a motorcycle gang and his thugs. The characters are strong, and if you allow the usual 'willing suspension of disbelief' (and like a little meat to your movies) you will probably have a fun time watching this flick.