Powder Burns (1971)
* 1/2 (out of 4)
A narrator who is a sheriff of a small town talks about how it was held hostage by the McNasty Brothers, a trio of gunfighters who will stop at nothing to get what they want. What they currently want on this visit to town is some good alcohol and easy women.
POWDER BURNS comes from director Alex deRenzy and I must say that I was really disappointed with it. I thought it started off okay as the Western setting was actually very surreal thanks in large part to some bizarre camera-work that didn't try to hide the fact that this was a movie. The camera pretty much just floats around capturing whatever it wants and there's no question that deRenzy wants to viewer to know and see that they're watching something different.
The problem with this Western-porno mix is the fact that it's just not very successful at either thing. As a Western the film is just plain boring as there's no energy, no life and certainly no laughs. I'm really not sure what the director was trying to do with these scenes and setting but it adds up to a big zero. As far as the porno goes, nothing happens until around the forty-five minute mark and by that time the film is more than half over. None of the sex scenes are all that interesting and in fact they too are quite boring.
The film really doesn't have much going for it. It remains slightly entertaining because you keep watching and hoping that the director is going to throw us something wild but that just never happens.