Bone Tomahawk
Director: S. Craig Zahler
Year Released: 2015
Rating: 1.0
After a group of cannibalistic troglodytes (the best kind of troglodyte, in my opinion) invades a small Western town and kidnaps people - including the physician wife (Lili Simmons) of injured foreman O'Dwyer (Patrick Wilson) - the Sheriff (Kurt Russell) and a posse (including Wilson, Richard Jenkins and Matthew Fox) go on a trek to eliminate the rogue clan. It feels like a protracted, meandering setup for very little reward - it only becomes somewhat tense in the final act (once the Sheriff and company come in contact with the enemy), and even then it's a bit anti-climactic. With limited subtext to go along with the atrocities - Wilson invokes God, but I don't think that leads to anything - it doesn't appear to be trying for some 'larger statement,' which is disappointing. If Hollywood's trying to bring back the Western, revisiting the work of Hawks, Ford and their peers is advisable.
