Made on a fairly moderate budget, The Showdown tries to be a modest old-fashioned western. The intention is good, but it feels like a mix of a made-for-TV movie and a home movie. The costumes and props are clearly something you can get anywhere and the actors feel like ordinary people. The characters have no development and feel generic, as does the script. The pace is quite slow and bland making the movie not very interesting. At the beginning everything is rather pure filler without showing anything beyond the relationship between the sheriff and Dixie. Nothing interesting happens until halfway through the movie when the problem with the bandits occurs. The Showdown is a western that has good intentions and is beautiful to look at, but it is a shame that it is too limited by the budget. My final rating for this movie is a 4/10.