Pale Rider has a Cult-classic like reputation, but frankly, is undeserved. It's a very weak attempt by Clint Eastwood to close the "man-with-no-name" circle of films, and kinda retire him. The story though is way too cliché and forced. There is nothing good, in fact, about it. It's a boring and clearly uninterested film to pledge the viewer.
The acting is horrendous, cringe-worthy. The plot is surreal and almost everything isn't explained at all(how the man-with-no-name got the priest clothes and etc). Storyline, as I said, cliché. The old and overused 'rich wants to take the poor's lands' kind of plot. But of course, wholly uninteresting. You know how it's going to end in the first twenty minutes or so. And what bothered me more is the fact that the 'man-with-no-name' made both daughter and mother to fell in love for him. Just laughing. And worse, there is a lot of time wasted in that pathetic sub-plot. It alone definitely lowered a lot the level of the entire film.
And even the climax is a mess, because there isn't any tension on it. All we knew is that the 6 bandits had killed a drunk man. That's all. What to expect from these villains? Obviously they would gonna lose to mister badass, and as I said previously, it was predictable in the very first twenty minutes. One-dimensional characters, cliché story only the cinematography is worth, I guess. Maybe not even it. Don't waste your time with that film. 5.6/10
The acting is horrendous, cringe-worthy. The plot is surreal and almost everything isn't explained at all(how the man-with-no-name got the priest clothes and etc). Storyline, as I said, cliché. The old and overused 'rich wants to take the poor's lands' kind of plot. But of course, wholly uninteresting. You know how it's going to end in the first twenty minutes or so. And what bothered me more is the fact that the 'man-with-no-name' made both daughter and mother to fell in love for him. Just laughing. And worse, there is a lot of time wasted in that pathetic sub-plot. It alone definitely lowered a lot the level of the entire film.
And even the climax is a mess, because there isn't any tension on it. All we knew is that the 6 bandits had killed a drunk man. That's all. What to expect from these villains? Obviously they would gonna lose to mister badass, and as I said previously, it was predictable in the very first twenty minutes. One-dimensional characters, cliché story only the cinematography is worth, I guess. Maybe not even it. Don't waste your time with that film. 5.6/10