The Old Way 4K 2023

In the wild west, as you know, the one with the gun is right. Our guy's a stickler for that rule, and he's got a reputation as the devil in the flesh, so many people he's sent to the afterlife. His name's Briggs, and he don't care where or who he put in the last world. So he would mow down our bounty Hunter vast ranks of scum, but love knocked at the window, and an experienced scumbag with a decrepit life is over. But in the wild west, old wounds don't heal, not at all, especially if you leave witnesses from the past.

Nicolas Cage has long been out of circulation, and the best part is that Nick is well aware of his situation, and has no hope of breaking through to the ladies. Cage has found a niche for experimental thrash surrealism, and feels like a fish in water. Collaborating with independent directors allows him to make money and wriggle in front of the camera. This film was nothing special. The same concept of revenge from the past, the same Nicholas, who tries to break with the past. True, this time he is not a released from prison, and not an ex-bandit from New Orleans, and not a safecracker, today Nick - the Cowboy. The simplest clichéd cowboy, in a hat, and a wide-brimmed cape, with a revolver, and a tired look. And of course there's a saloon in his field, and the Mexican border.

Absolutely nothing new you will see. This is, to put it bluntly, a very 'slow' western. You expect dashing hardcore cowboy action from Briggs for most of the movie, but it doesn't happen, instead you get to watch Nick Cage in a cowboy outfit teach his stepdaughter about life, and everything beyond the mundane was his character stubbornly fails to develop, though he could. And that's okay! After all, the movies with Cage in the present watch more out of nostalgia for his former works. Although I must admit, there was hope that Nick will release his famous repertoire, and show the bad guys where the crayfish can hide, he did, but he did it lazily and without a spark. The rest of the partners, among whom is possible to mark out only the 80-ies veteran Clint Howard, dutifully played as it should be, giving a level of b-class. So Cage's one-time cowboy successfully coped with his task.