Is it lazy to say at a paint-by-numbers western? The answer is yes. But it's the answer I have to give because that's what this movie is. It's the most generic basic Western you can watch. And I say that in an okay way.
There's nothing wrong with the movie It's enjoyable for what it is. You might find it a little hard to get past the sub-par dubbing as this is a spaghetti western made with Italian or even Spanish in mind long before English.
We follow the antics of a man named Ragon the Bounty Hunter who travels to Montana in search of wanted men. But an interesting development happens on his journey. He comes across a dead man who happens to have a sheriff star on his chest. He decides to keep the sheriff star thinking it might be beneficial to his work later on.
He arrives in Miles City a place which is neither of my large nor a city City. He decides to break up a mob lynching using his Sheriff star to assert his authority. With this the town believes that use the new sheriff who was supposed to come as added protection. But a few of the local Punk's aren't so sure.
For it was these man who had shot the original Sheriff travelling on his ways to Miles City to begin with. And their local leader questions his own men as if they had actually done their job. They assured him that they did and that this guy is somebody else just pretending to be the sheriff.
This whole part of the story always seemed a little confusing to me. I get why Reagan would pretend to be a sheriff to catch his bounties. But he does such a good job of cleaning up the town and with such vigour that you start to wonder if he really wants to settle in and become the new permanent Sheriff. But he never indicates he's going to become the new sheriff so this entire town was originally going to get screwed over when he originally planned to get his bounties and then leave.
And if he had just originally collected his bounties, say halfway through the film he would have just left the town to rot. Ironically there would have been no Sheriff and no major gang heads. So the entire town wouldn't really have anyone to rule it good or bad. It would have most likely just degraded into a ghost town and everyone would have left. And that's to say nothing of the great cattle War that's going on.
which was also instigated by the same gangs living in the town. So you take away all the intelligent people ruling these gangs and you would have just had groups of thugs running around and attacking one another. They would have burnt the half the state down and then probably run off when the major Authority showed up from out east.
But I guess I shouldn't worry about that problem. Ragan decides to stay on as the local sheriff and even when the town figures out that he wasn't initially a sheriff there not that bothered by it. I guess they figure a decent man who pretends to be a sheriff is better than a dead man who was a sheriff.
Ragan kind of has this romantic interests with one of the Bounty Hunter's daughters (or nice I was never entirely sure which). This is the weakest part of the movie by far. The action is okay the gun fights are decent and the story (tho basic and dubbed poorly in English) is at least captivating enough to make you want to see it to its conclusion. But the romance is non-existent, but the character still act like they're falling in love. It just looks so strange as this guy and girl kind of have chemistry with one another but never a scene where they evolved the chemistry or even have a solid conversation. It's just that this girl falls in love with him later. Maybe she's just hot for the guy. I mean it's the Midwest and decent men are probably pretty hard to come by, especially if you live in a nowhere Ranch.
The love interest father (or Uncle still not sure) keeps jumping between antagonist and possible secondary protagonist. I guess he's supposed to be a good guy because he's supposed to be the twin of the man who was originally being hunted. But then sometimes he pretends like he was the original guy all along. But then he goes back to being the twin. So I'm never been entirely sure if he was the original bad guy or not. Maybe the guy just has multiple personality syndrome. And they're never actually was a twin but just one nut ball who keeps breaking back and forth between two different thoughts in his head. Either way he also confuses his niece a lot.
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