I am not sure where all the stellar reviews came from for this movie. I can only assume that many family and friends of this movie rated it. All the elements were in place to make a great movie, sadly many opportunities were missed while making this lackluster movie.
They apparently had zero technical advisers on the set. A muzzle loading rifle only shoots ONE bullet. It then requires a long and involved manual process to reload it, from the muzzle. You need to pour a measured amount of black powder into the muzzle, then ram some wadding and a bullet down the muzzle (front) of the barrel with a big stick, like the one attached to the rifle. This process takes 2-4 minutes by someone skilled in such a task.
I guess there are some magical muzzle loading rifles out there that shoot as fast as you can squeeze the trigger without the need to reload them. I am in the market for such a magical rifle to use while I am am riding my unicorn.
The genre is sci-fi so such a magical gun makes sense, I guess. I only finished watching it in the hopes it would get better as it had a good start. I did not get better. Much discipline was learned on the part of this viewer to not end this abomination early on during the viewing/waterboarding. An extra star given for the ladies fine attempt at acting. They will get better I think.
The 'Tomato' people owe me 90 minutes of my life back.
