Dead in Tombstone [DVD]

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Guerrero gets some help this time from Dr. Goldsworthy (Dean McDermott) who resurrects him when he gets killed by Boomer. Boomer joins forces with a local brothel owner named Madame Du Vere (Elizabeth Lavender). That alliance along with this woman's ability to "see the truth" feels a little out of left field. It just happened. Even more awkward was that this prostitute seemed to abruptly become the arch nemesis of Guerrero's daughter. She had a few bad things to say about Alicia but nothing suggesting they would punch it out in the end. The sequel is a bit weaker than the first film (not surprising, they usually are), and it really goes a bit too far with ignoring its own rules about Guerrero and his resurrections, as well as the fact that it doesn’t come anywhere NEAR Tombstone this time, but hey. I actually had some fun with it. Trejo plays his tough hardguy role to the T, while Busey hams it almost as much as his legendary father with the role of Boomer (just without some of the insanity that poor Gary is known for). Everyone else is pretty much DTV fodder and has the acting chops that mirror that genre. It seemed like someone wanted to make a 'Machete' movie as a western, but also threw in the devil and a supernatural aspect to appeal to a wider audience. And whoever thought to put Machete (Danny Trejo) and the nerd from 'The Breakfast Club' (Anthony Michael Hall) together as half-brothers, is a genius. But 'Dead in Tombstone' follows Machete...err...Guerrero (Trejo) and Red (Hall), who are half brothers who lead a band of outlaws in the wild west, as they go riding into towns, robbing and blasting their guns. None of this really makes any sense, but there are some laugh out loud one liners and ridiculous slow motion shots riddled throughout.

The film revolves around a drifter and gang leader, Guerrero (Danny Trejo), who is betrayed and killed by his own gang. Once in hell, he makes a deal with the Devil (Michey Rourke) to bring him more souls. He is given a time limit, though, so it becomes a race against time for Guerrero. As a result, the film is fast-paced and exciting. There's plenty of shoot-outs, explosions, chase sequences and suspense to keep the adrenaline pumping. Towards the end of the movie we finally get some supernatural action but it is really too late to save it and not really that impressive to begin with. Keyes, Rob (September 12, 2017). "Dead Again in Tombstone EXCLUSIVE: Cowboy Town With Danny Trejo". Screen Rant . Retrieved May 30, 2018. The acting is good all around, the music is good, the gun fights are well choreographed, but the cinematography is awesome and almost a work of art on their own. Kudos.Notable: Dean McDermott as Dr Goldsworthy who we suspect is something more than human and he tries to have Guerrero reject Lucifer's hold on him. Supernatural, remember? The only remotely interesting thing about this film? Rourke plays the devil incarnate. Which, if you've ever seen his 1987 psychological thriller "Angel Heart," is an interesting twist. Unfortunately this film isn't remotely similar to Angel Heart in any other regard, which was one of the best films of the 1980s in this humble critic's opinion; Dead in Tombstone, by contrast, is Dead On Arrival (har, har) and a truly bad film.

I draw issue with the interior shots which were very dark. Night or day it was hard to see. Get some lighting in there. We accept a little unrealistic lighting in film but usually in the direction of seeing better. I am not sure if Reiné felt that serious darkness added authenticity or the lighting guy quit before those scenes were done. Weintraub, Steve Frosty (October 22, 2013). "Anthony Michael Hall Talks DEAD IN TOMBSTONE, What It's Like to Play a Badass Western Villain, THE DEAD ZONE, Working with Christopher Nolan on THE DARK KNIGHT, and More". Collider. Complex Media, Inc. Retrieved May 30, 2018. Weinberg, Scott (October 28, 2013). "FEARNET Movie Review: 'Dead in Tombstone' ". Fearnet . Retrieved July 27, 2014. The film follows on the events of 'Dead in Tombstone'. We learn more about Guerrero's family and meet his daughter and mother, and also realize there was a reason the Devil made a deal with him in the first film. With Roel Reine returning as director, this is another visually stunning treat - visually even better than the original film. The cinematography is STUNNING. The photography and aerial shots are FANTASTIC. There are some films I'll watch again and again for the sake of the cinematography - and this is such a film. It's one amazing shot after the next. Some shots are breathtakingly beautiful. It's the type of photography you expect from big budget productions.

Foster, Tyler (October 13, 2013). "Dead in Tombstone [Unrated] (Blu-ray)". DVD Talk . Retrieved July 27, 2014. Fun to a degree, but overcome by familiarity, not to mention a camera that often won't stop moving.

Dead in Tombstone is a 2013 American direct-to-video horror Western film produced by Universal 1440 Entertainment. It was directed by Roel Reiné and written by Shane Kuhn and Brendan Cowles. The film stars Danny Trejo as Guerrero, a gang leader who gets double-crossed by his fellow gang members. Striking a pact with the Devil after entering Hell, he resurfaces to the earthly world to avenge his own death by killing the men who murdered him. The film was released in home media on October 22, 2013, and was followed by a sequel, Dead Again in Tombstone (2017). I am a film editor, cinematographer and even worked as a Zombie stuntman. So, film, and especially cheesy low budget film is an area of expertise for me. I even have the honor of teaching a film class, "Aesthetics of Editing". Dead in Tombstone' reminded me of 'The Warrior's Way', 'Ghost Town' (1988), and even 'The Crow', to a certain extent. The first movie, Dead in Tombstone, was fairly okay. Not great but okay. This movie, the second installment, was a bit of a disappointment though. The general idea is a good one. At least it is one I would generally have liked. However, it is really poorly implemented.Is there a giant explosion in the film? Yes. Which surprisingly looks good. And are there humans riding horses at top speeds covered in fire? Yes there are. So if this is the type of western film, you're wanting, then by all means you'll have a good time with this. But be wary of the one-note characters, the poor dialogue and the awful action sequences. As with Roel's other films, and as he discusses in the extras, he tends to set up multiple cameras during the action scenes so he can film everything in one go around and be done with it. The results are disastrous and don't transfer well to the final product. Instead of a coherent and well made action sequence, we get a jumbled mess of a film where we are trying to figure out what is really going on. Trejo is one of the most recognizable American actors working today, with a huge number of action movies under his belt. The second cousin of famed director Robert Rodriguez, the two have collaborated on 10 different films, notably on Spy Kids, Machete and its sequel, Once Upon a Time in Mexico and From Dusk to Dawn. He is really not showing much in terms of terrifying presence or supernatural powers. Whenever he springs into action he is just blundering in shooting at everything that moves and usually he gets shot up and "dies" in the process. Afterwards he get's revived and the process starts all over again.