Western movie made in 2022. When you look at the poster of the movie and see the names of Willem Dafoe and Christoph Waltz, one wants to watch it without hesitation. Because the ratings are high. For this reason, expectations are also rising. Here, the movie is far from meeting that expectation.

The politically powerful husband of the woman who was kidnapped and asked for a ransom enlists a bounty hunter to find her. The bounty hunter has a rival as famous as himself.

The subject is in the hands of a good director and it could have been much better with these master actors. The music of the movie was good.

There are scenes of sexuality and nudity in the movie.

A return to the old western formula by the hands of the experienced Walter Hill, who, at eighty years of age, is still writing and directing, and the roookie (in westerns I mean) Christoph Waltz, who produces and interprets, also counting on the charismatic Willem Defoe in the role of the villain.

Waltz does surprisingly well in the role of the bounty hunter, more Lee Van Cleef than Clint Eastwood, but still convincing. Also Willem Defoe is comfortable in the role of the gunslinger.

The problem is that the argument seems a little fragile, in the twists and turns that lead to a predictable ending, and also a bit politically correct, in the inclusion of suffragette women and emancipated blacks in the territory of overbearing Mexican landowners.

Sign of the times, even a western has to be inclusive and politically correct. But something is lost, with so much contemporaneity.

Reading reviews here and am not surprised by every pretentious nobody that thinks they're the next Ebert - um, you're not. Spaghetti Westerns are low budget, rough cut, bare-bones acting with every random scene you wouldn't expect to see and that is what you get here. I loved it - I view this movie as a hat-tip to the old genre and it was filmed and acted appropriately. If you're too new to this type of cinema and are expecting new-fangled, high-budget, bells and whistle spectacular scenes and over the top acting then just move along as you will absolutely not get this movie. If you can watch it and enjoy it for what is actually is you won't be disappointed. If, on the other hand, you feel you are a semi-professional movie reviewer, please just pass on it as we have enough of those on here already and they're all absolutely incorrect.