The Duel

2016 "Vengeance cannot be denied."
5.8| 1h50m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 24 June 2016 Released
Producted By: 26 Films
Country: United States of America
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A Texas Ranger investigates a series of unexplained deaths in a town called Helena.

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Evengyny Thanks for the memories!
Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.
Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.
Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
FinneganBear The presence of Harrelson and Hemsworth as well as the plot outline sounded promising. But Harrelson overacts every scene and uses the annoying stereotyped mush-mouth drawl that made "The Cowboy Way" so unwatchable. His "Abraham" is presented as a sort of cult leader who appears to have healing powers and can cure sickness with a single touch. Hemsworth is Texas Ranger "David" and has a wife who immediately falls sick in Abraham's town and Abraham begins to tend to her a little too much. David notes that there are no Mexicans in the border town only to find that Abraham hates them, captures them and sells them to hunters who delight in tracking and killing them. Which fails to explain why Abraham is infatuated with David's wife, who is Mexican. We also never learn why she is infatuated with the crazed Abraham. Nor is the issue of Abraham's faith healing ever revisited in the film. It's as if by the second half of the film the writer forgot he put that in the first half. Ultimately David is forced to be hunted but given a rifle and bullets to make it interesting for the hunters. His first move is to shoot the man guarding the next batch of captured Mexicans and free them. But it never occurs to the Ranger to take the gun and ammo of that guard so he eventually runs out of bullets. And after he resolves the situation, the wounded Ranger rides off into the sunset (instead of returning to Ranger HQ) leaving his confused wife behind in the town we are subsequently told was abandoned. The movie gives the impression the script was written in about 10 minutes and was never double checked for continuity or even common sense.
mike3386 Flashback, it's 2013-2014-2015, Woody Harrelson and Liam Hemsworth work together on three of the four "Hunger Games" teen flicks (sorry, that's another story). Somewhere (about 2014) they both see the end coming in this mother lode, so Harrelson (comfortable in his mentor role of "Games") says to ole Blue Eyes, "Hey Liam, you wanna make some easy pocket change?" "You bet, Mitch, uh, Woody". "OK, with your looks and my weirdness let's do a badass Western. The plot is stupid, but that won't matter, real Western fans are all dead anyway, so let's just make a campy teen horror chick flick." "OK, got it!" And there you have a plausible scenario . . . for where/how this mess evolved. Throw in some continuously garbled dialog, especially from behind a too-bearded Hemsworth and you're left with nonsense . . . save for some good photography, realistic costumes, interesting sets, and decent Western scenery . . . for Greenwood, MS. Further trouble for the viewer develops as minutes drag into hours (almost two), while the thin cliché of a plot gets more bizarre as it turns into Take-Your-Wooable-Wife-To-Work-Day at the local Texas Rangers. Gimme a break.Stupid is as stupid does. If this is your cup of violence and gore, then go for it, but a note to the three other real Western fans still alive out there, stay away, stay very far away.
robertahoyt-86667 We rented this movie and I was horrified and disgusted by it, I do not want to ever see a movie as gross and stupid as this again as long as I live. This is not a well thought out critical review, and there's a good reason for that. This movie doesn't deserve one. It's just ugly and awful without a single redeeming characteristic. I have few enough years left in my life, I refuse to waste them on ugly trashy movies that are upsetting and simply gross. No good acting here, no wonderfully written story, no adventure or interesting plot, just humans behaving badly and I must highly and unequivocally NOT recommend it.
rjacome24 This is the biggest let down of a Western film, it isn't even a Western movie, more of a philosophical boring movie with drama and politics. At best it could be considered a suspense movie with a weird plot that takes way too long, it is boring the entire movie. A Texas ranger is given the task of investigating murders of Mexican immigrants that happen near the Mexico border in a certain Texas town. His wife forces him to take her with him rather than be left home, and so he does because apparently a Texas ranger has to take his wife with him on every job in the 1800s. It gets much worse from there with nothing but a boring story without any western action whatsoever, nothing but continuous drama and only the slightest bit of suspense. The plot also depicts an psychotic evil man who apparently is some sort of "Christian" priest who ironically encourages people to brutally kill others as well as sleep with prostitutes. But the brave Hero is shown to be a good moral atheist. Lmao More politics in Movies. There was no need for anyone's religion to be depicted in this movie, just more political agendas and an incredibly boring plot. Please don't waste your money and more important don't waste your time on this awkward movie.