Review of Diablo (2016) by Blazinblitzer — 08 Jan 2016

What is this movie?

Other than some really nice cinematography and an excellent Danny Glover performance, I don't know where to start with this...thing. About 20 minutes of the movie is just the main character riding around on a horse in the mountains.st him and someone else in a standoff with no dialogue, which would be fine if I knew some sort of exposition to the other character to make me care for him. There wasn't. Except for Danny Glover, everyone in this movie could act about as well as a plank of wood. There was hardly any emotion, the facial expressions weren't right, and the actors looked as confused through the movie as I did. All characters weren't characters, but rather, plot elements to push the movie forward to the "twist" ending. This is when a boring, harmless Western movie turns into one of the worst Western movies ever.

The final thirty minutes of the movie are some of the most baffling and self-destructive I've ever seen. It all starts when (SPOILERS HERE: Even though you won't care, trust me) Carver is about to be killed by Ezra, the stalker guy that always follows Jackson. Before the camera pans at Carver's granddaughter, Ezra is about to kill him. However, when the camera pans looking out the window, Jackson is the one doing the killing, and Ezra is not found for the rest of the movie. I laughed my butt off all the way until Jackson reached a small village, where he murders everyone there, including a few children, for no reason other than to find Alexsandra. This is where I got angry. Because Jackson doesn't do anything morally wrong for the entire movie. Sure, he killed a few people, but at least he didn't shoot first. As soon as he confusingly kills Carver, he goes ape****. This wouldn't be bad, of course, if he had a reason to this. But nope, no explanation, just out of nowhere. That killed any potential the movie had, and it left me half asleep by the time Jackson actually makes the final battle. And I thought 'what if this movie turns out to be okay because of a bad*** last battle'. No. The entire thing was an ending relationship plot point inside a three minute standoff.

In other words, never watch this movie. If you're looking for a good, modern , Western movie, watch Django Unchained, not this pile of horsecrap.