Release date: July of 2008
This film had major problems for me. It was way too long and could have used a lot of editing or deletion of scenes—the scene in the brothel, for example. I took a liking to the philosophical Chinese warlord, with his pipe and Buddhist prayer beads. I thought his whole multi-national troop were a hoot—Easterners and Westerners; riding horses, motorbikes, and jeeps; dressed in a riot of clothing styles—they were a funny and appealing bunch … but then they all get slaughtered in the big chase/shootout scene! The film was an all-male romp pretty much, okay it’s a Western, they tend to go that route, but the way the two women on the train were abused—the one used as a storage container, the other terrorized, forced to shovel coal, and shot when she whimpers too much—left a bad taste in my mouth.
The Weird brutalizing a female passenger
during a train robbery.
