In rather banal fashion, Bone Tomahawk manages to merge two completely unrelated styles. At the beginning the viewer gets the impression that the movie is a western, with the plot focusing around a town named Bright Hope filled with lawmen and criminals alike. Woe betide it, one of the present company surprises all – it is unusual and unpleasant to some, and it upsets sheriff Franklin Hunt (Kurt Russell).
More fun and games until the more than socially awkward mister hears his bloomers rattling, gets irate enough to the point of bellowing at being ushered into the hoosegow. Nice and fairytale-esque one might say. Or so we thought, because we did not expect what came next, the strangled corpse of a stable boy was discovered overnight, along with the capture of the local enemy and the doctor. An Indian expert on the region is called, and it turns out that the authors are such inmates of inbreeding, who kept in caverns like animals and worked proudly as cannibals.
What comes next is simply violent shooting work featuring cannibals while conventionally inducing the doctor’s husband along with the sheriff and elderly deputy Chicory (Richard Jenkins) and who happens to be a gent John Brooder (Matthew Fox). In rough shades, it becomes more rewarding than and about the criminal standoff these women are thoroughly on par with their male counterparts and well historical when Anglo men interact with the genre full of femocracy, genre and vice versa. Most engaging is the course of the doctor’s husband along with the sheriff and doing battle with the inbred, cave dwelling cannibals. They are good, good guys who end up wars against an absolutely unexplainable enemy.
Moreover, they are well cast, with Russell as suitable a sheriff as you may imagine, Jenkins, his second-in-command very nice and friendly, and Wilson as a hero who tries to save his love even after a leg injury, impressively indeed.
Yet the problem of the movie at this point is the cannibals in question that seem to be the undesirable feature most of America loves. What is such a background you are probably imploring? For one, there is probably much those characters lack. Winter in the Holocaust khoi however does kill, well, the audience eventually makes up for this tcoy realistically yes, corpses and their edits are disgusting.
Although the style and approach are visually impressive, the film does successfully establish a degree of horror with the villains. The kills are absolutely disgusting, and as disgusting as then one kill, what everybody will remember for this year is: the killing scene was just that, entire shock and fantasy.
While the pacing is assured, the film is not sluggish in any way, it is very well shot, the old west leaps out of the screen, and the acting has some crackerjack moustaches.
However, the most critical weakness in Bone Tomahawk is in its ending. While everything else and the set-up was great, the conclusion fails to deliver with some of the storylines resolved off screen, and some characters that probably deserved a better resolution. However, it is still a fun-ride even though it offers uglier horror and bloodier western.
Conclusion
Being a genre mash-up that does not let you down on either of the fronts, Bone Tomahawk is a two hour blast packed with good dialogues, strong characters and interesting and unforgettable kills.
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