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The Desperate Trail (1995)

Western | 93 minutes
2,68 22 votes

Genre: Western / Action

Duration: 93 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: P.J. Pesce

Stars: Craig Sheffer and Linda Fiorentino

IMDb score: 5,9 (1.013)

Releasedate: 9 July 1995

The Desperate Trail plot

"No one escapes from Marshal Bill Speakes."

After years of being abused by her husband, Sarah finally kills him. However, his father is Marshall and takes her prisoner. She is transferred to another city by stagecoach. There is also $2,500 in cash on board. When they are ambushed, Sarah escapes and takes the money.

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Marshall Bill Speakes

Jack Cooper

Sarah O'Rourke

Walter Cooper

Zeb Hollister

Tommy Donnelly

Con Woman in Saloon

Mamie Hollister

Con Woman in Saloon

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Barfly

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Mediocre western with a disappointing Sam Elliott.

The first half hour is good, but then the film as a whole starts to sag. When the American equivalent of Johnnie de Mol makes his entrance, the viewing pleasure is over.

The fights have nice effects and the last ten minutes are just like the beginning: great.

Too bad about the boring middle section.

2.5*

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LuukRamaker

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The Desperate Trail is a film that doesn't have much wrong with it, but it's also not that overwhelming, so it probably won't take me more than two weeks to forget about it. It doesn't manage to captivate the entire time, but it's still easy to watch. The acting isn't incredibly good, but it's also far from bad.

The story is remarkably complicated for a western. It is not that you have to be focused all the time to be able to explain everything that happens, but the underlying idea that has caused the situation as it occurs here is not clear from the beginning. It is also difficult to guess who is good and who is bad. Both Sarah and Marshall Speakes have a reason for the things he/she does or has done and both can count on some sympathy in that respect.

Although for some the beginning was the best part of the film, I actually only found myself on the edge of my seat in the last half hour. My interest increased at the moment when there seemed to be no way out for Sarah and her partner. In addition, it was not clear to me from beginning to end who was the good guy and who was the bad guy, which made the ending a surprise for me.

However, it is not a top film. This film is actually a bit too simple for that. I was not swept along in the story, so I actually did not care much about who died and who was allowed to survive the spectacle.

“Have you ever heard the sound a broken neck bone makes?... It sounds like a carrot.”

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blurp194

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With a cast like that, you expect something.

And then almost nothing comes of it, with the weak story that misses all opportunities - but does run a series of rather unnecessary and very clumsy shootouts. A bit more realistic than average perhaps, I must say - the heroes sometimes miss, and they don't have an infinite magazine. Still, that can't save the film, and neither does the presence of an Elliott or Fiorentino. Easily the worst film I've seen either of them play in.

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