Film Summary CCLIII (Sergeants 3)

It's the rat pack in the old west.

It strikes me as a bit weird that this is the first Western I've ever talked about on my film summary blog. I've watched plenty of them in the past but never thought of putting pen to paper or key to screen I guess it's the modern way of putting it.

And unfortunately I had to start with this one. This is not a great western, it's pacing a slow The Rat Pack can't act. And the story is incredibly generic also the black guy turned free man is a little racist and I'm saying that in the context of the era. He's a bit ridiculous for then.

The Rat Pack can do three things, they can sing, they can be Suave and they can be 'East Coast upper-class Macho'. It makes them good in movies like ocean 11. It makes them good in musicals and it makes them enjoyable in World War II military flicks. Because I can believe that Frank Sinatra got to be a sergeant in the US Army. In the 1940s. But being a Pioneer man. That's a little less believable.

Below I started doing my summary , and it's kind of a waste of time. Because I didn't finish watching this movie. It just didn't hold my interest.

So we have a group of Rogue Indians attacking and butchering a small town. The sheriff of this town sends out a telegram to a local military Outpost informing them of their unfortunate predicament. The military unsure of the situation calls in the head chief of the "local" Indian Clan. And asks him about the situation, he informs them that his people have no influence nor any violence in the region. And that the information could be misleading. So the military unable to make heads of the situation goes out to find their main military man First Sgt. Mike Merry (Frank Sinatra).

Frank Sinatra and the rest of his Rat Pack game get into a confrontation with some very large mountain Men. Resulting in your typical barroom brawl.
This results in every man being knocked out, somehow. Now The Rat Pack has to head back to their local military fort.

And this is where I started losing interest. The Rat Pack just aren't that interesting they get chewed out by their boss they get sent to the town that was attacked Dean Martin finds the bar, big surprise there. And they get ambushed by the same Indians who would attack them before. All the while having to deal with this random black guy that keeps following them insisting that he can help them out and that he only wants to do good, he was a former slave turned free man. And I guess the idea is that he just doesn't know what to do with himself.

And is home performance just comes off as uncomfortable, I'm usually pretty good at separating reality from entertainment and I'm usually not bothered by such things. But there's a difference between having a character whose betrayers of stereotype with racist undertones and having the equivalent of Jar Jar Binks. He really is that bad, it makes me very happy that Blazing Saddles will be out in about 15 years and this kind of performance won't be seeing any more. It's just not very good.

I wish this was a better movie, I like westerns I like the Rat Pack and I like comedies and this movie takes all of them and just shows it into the ground and it comes out boring. Which is the biggest sin of any movie.

Unfortunately this is the last Rat Pack movie , not a great way to go out. Oh well at least they still got the original Ocean's Eleven.