It starts off like a potentially cool film with a tough preacher out to save a town. Then it suddenly veers off into WTF-ville when he just rides off and kills his wife and some guy? I don't care if she did leave him, why would he just shoot her in cold blood like that? Was he mentally unstable? Even if it was the heat of the moment, any normal human being would have calmed down and come to his senses in the time it took to find her. And this guy was a man of God??
Did he have a history of psychotic behavior? They never give a logical reason for his actions. When he was later asked by some horny single mom -- who apparently can't find an eligible guy in the huge town nearby -- why he killed his wife, he mumbles something like "It seemed like a good idea at the time."
Seriously?
And then the mom just shrugs and lets it slide! Was she so freaking desperate for a guy she'd let ANY random murderer shack up with her (and her young son!), even a beady-eyed, scraggly-looking buzzard like Nelson? Then the sheriff comes looking for him and shoots him down. But not because he murdered his wife (as well as several other people, including a defenseless young girl outside a bar). He did it because he rode off and left the town to fend for themselves against the bad guys!!
Seriously?
Finally, the Sheriff and WIllie become best buddies again and kill the bad guys. And in the end WIllie goes back to the horny, desperate mom and the film ends. Apparently this idiotic, pointless film expects us to be happy he finally found a peaceful life, yet all I kept thinking was -- he freaking shot his wife i cold blood!
Willie did more vile, horrifying things in this film than the crabby old man and his inbred sons! The mentally slow son had more reason to shoot the one guy trying to shoot his "pa" than Nelson had to shoot his wife. Nelson deserved to hang until he was dead!
BTW, I gave it a "3" rating but only because I thought Nelson did a decent job acting and for Morgan Fairchild's nips through her wet blouse.
Did he have a history of psychotic behavior? They never give a logical reason for his actions. When he was later asked by some horny single mom -- who apparently can't find an eligible guy in the huge town nearby -- why he killed his wife, he mumbles something like "It seemed like a good idea at the time."
Seriously?
And then the mom just shrugs and lets it slide! Was she so freaking desperate for a guy she'd let ANY random murderer shack up with her (and her young son!), even a beady-eyed, scraggly-looking buzzard like Nelson? Then the sheriff comes looking for him and shoots him down. But not because he murdered his wife (as well as several other people, including a defenseless young girl outside a bar). He did it because he rode off and left the town to fend for themselves against the bad guys!!
Seriously?
Finally, the Sheriff and WIllie become best buddies again and kill the bad guys. And in the end WIllie goes back to the horny, desperate mom and the film ends. Apparently this idiotic, pointless film expects us to be happy he finally found a peaceful life, yet all I kept thinking was -- he freaking shot his wife i cold blood!
Willie did more vile, horrifying things in this film than the crabby old man and his inbred sons! The mentally slow son had more reason to shoot the one guy trying to shoot his "pa" than Nelson had to shoot his wife. Nelson deserved to hang until he was dead!
BTW, I gave it a "3" rating but only because I thought Nelson did a decent job acting and for Morgan Fairchild's nips through her wet blouse.