This movie was another highly anticipated one for me. I talked about this movie in the “Movie and Tv show news” segment of my podcast “Movie Reviews With Ceren” a few weeks ago.
This movie starrs Jason Momoa, Martin Sensmeier (“Westworld”), Mainei Kinimaka (Apple Tv Plus “See”), Zahn McClarnon (“Westworld”), Lily Gladstone (“Reservations Dogs”), Raoul Max Trujillo (“Mayham MC”), Christian Camargo (Apple Tv Plus “See”), Wade Williams (“Cowboy Bee-Bop”), Amy Seimetz (Netflix’s “Sweet Thooth”), just to name a few
This movie was directed by Christian Camargo and written by Jason Momoa.
It was released on November 18th 2022.
This movie was rated R for violence and language. It is a Western.
Onto the premise: In 1909, amidst the dying old west, Willie Boy, a long distance Desert Runner by Chemehuevi tradition, falls in love with young native beauty, Carlota. Carlota’s father, a Chemehuevi shaman and local tribal leader, refuses to let the young couple be together. In a fatal confrontation, Carlota’s father falls dead to an accidental gun shot and the young lovers flee to the sun enslaved Mohave desert. The local sheriff leads a mounted posse armed with fire power and two Native American trackers seeking justice for their “murdered” tribal leader. Willie Boy and Carlota evade capture outlasting the men and their horses. However, fake news stories meant to sell papers adds to the mounting pressure to capture Willie Boy. In a desert that purifies all, the search for Willie Boy forces everyone to face their own demons in this tragic tale of love, death, and desert heat.
We have grown accustomed to many stereotypes in Westerns and I’m always looking for movies that try to portray a more realistic narrative.
There are some fairly decent performances in this one and the simple story is reasonably well told but of course some of the actors based their performances on fiction instead of reality which distracts from the overall experience.
However this does tend to work in concept and I can see why it was green-lit!
There is one sentence in text at the beginning and another sentence at the end and that is what the whole movie is based around.
Not a blockbuster, more of a curiosity but worth watching in it’s own right.
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