Outlaws and Angels (2016)

Outlaws and Angels: Directed by JT Mollner. With Chad Michael Murray, Luke Wilson, Teri Polo, Frances Fisher. When outlaws on the lam invade the home of an unsuspecting, seemingly innocent, frontier family to hide out for the night, an unexpected game of cat and mouse ensues, leading to seduction, role reversal, and ultimately, bloody revenge.

“Besides writer/director JT Mollner deciding to create his own unique vision of a western where the three fugitive bank robbers hold a preacher named George Tildon (Ben Browder), his wife Ada (Teri Polo) and two daughters hostage the bank robbers have a continuing dwindling posse chasing them and the story just gets weirder and weirder.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe posse chasing the bank robbers is led by Josiah (Luke Wilson) who tries to n lead his posse through intimidation and with idle threats but quite frankly he cannot even protect himself from of all people, the preachers half dead wife? Then there is the leader of the bank robbers named Henry (played by Chad Michael Murray) who takes a shining to the preacheru0026#39;s youngest daughter Florence Tildon (Francesca Eastwood) who has some secrets she wants to share with Henry.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn other real suspense films, the director/editor will purposely lower the actors voice so as to hold the audienceu0026#39;s attention but this director, JT Mollner took this approach to extreme with his star Henry (Chad Michael Murray). Not only does Henryu0026#39;s voice come to almost a whisper, he mumbles most of his dialogue such that I thought the film would need to include sub titles because the quiet language Henry was whispering/mumbling was certainly not English no matter how many times I attempted to rewind what the heck he was mumbling.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIf you enjoy seeing faces and heads being riddled with bullets and brain matter landing on the shooters own face then maybe you could be remotely satisfied. Or maybe incest, or male on male anal sex is your thing, then this film may appeal to you. I found it disgusting for a western and I do not object to violence just to sensationalism for garnering false attention. The dialogue was also very boring and extremely slow moving but I still hung in there which is why I did not rate the film any lower than a 4 out of 10. At least the ending was a bit of a surprise which I will not divulge so that you can also sit through the entire film and see if you agree or disagree with my review.”