Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

scoff-1 This movie was shot on the same set as "The Wild One" 1953 Marlon Brando, yeah? It really looks like it. I don't know for sure, can anyone confirm? Motorcycles, small town set, someone help me here. Even the bar looks the same. The storefronts, everything. If it is the same set, what a poor tribute to the original. Most folks these days have not seen that movie, but it is a classic. Brando with his hat skewed, 50 years before Ashton Kutcher did it on "Punk'd". Black and white movies at their best. Beers cost coins. James Coburn is a young punk. Bikers are hep cats. Can't tell if Brando is a beatnik in a leather jacket or Hollywood just wanted the best of both worlds.

kelsci This film was recently shown in the spring of 2002 on HBO. The twist to this film involves one of the participants in a local town's wild west show given to tourist. A criminalistic motorcycle gang invades the town. It is that participant mentioned above who cleverly fights off this gang, one with the help of a friend who apparently is well versed in weapondry and by getting a few of the towns participants to assist him when the gang makes its final assault to seize the town with their ultimate goal of perhaps killing innocents and pillaging the town for whatever they can use on their travels. Lou Diamond Phillips is ideal as the head of the biker gang with a mean wise guy attitude. Sean Patrick Flannery is perfect as the mild mannered participant that wards off the gang. Robert Forster is good support as the friend of Flannery and the weapons expert.There is a style to this action film that although makes it a sort of "B" film that makes it a cut above similar type films. I would say that the plot-story line is the key that is carried out very well.

Paul Craven I caught this on HBO late-night. The scenario is pretty interesting. A guy in a wild west show who is a slacker and was just dumped by his girlfriend is forced to take action when some bad dudes cruise into town and start messing things up. There are some good shoot-outs and fights and some funny lines. The best actor in it is Robert Forster. He plays a cranky old tough guy who is good with a gun.

burlyfly This film drew me in from the start. I like the idea of a small town that makes its living putting on old-fashioned Wild West shows, that is suddenly faced with a gang of renegades not unlike the old Clanton gang of the real Wild West. Surrounded by thugs, the town, though seemingly armed to the teeth, finds itself paralyzed and seems incapable of defending itself. It's an old theme: civilization vs savagery. How do you deal with bandits on the rampage? How far would you go to take back your town? And, as this film cleverly suggested, is the town *worth* saving? To me, "Lone Hero" follows the tradition of "High Noon" and brings to mind the work of Kurosawa. Sadly, what Hollywood offers today is not remotely what it offered yesterday. "Lone Hero" is an updated Western (a forgotten genre) and it has the kind of black-and-white good-vs-evil morality that harks back to the days of John Wayne. I like the fact that this film actually embraces a moral vision not seen in current cinema (except in films like "Gladiator" and "Black Hawk Down"): bravery, honor, sacrifice, and yes, though amazingly it seems offensive to some, the notion of machismo - a quality that we've somehow lost (to our detriment).