Missouri Breaks: The Ballad of Missouri Bill

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week we’re heading west—way west—with a striking little indie feature that punches well above its weight: Missouri Breaks: The Ballad of Missouri Bill. Directed by Jarrod Christman and Weston Grillo, this 2024 low-budget Western was filmed entirely in the Idaho wilderness and tells a stripped-back, gritty story of one man’s battle with his past and the unforgiving land around him.
Set in the Idaho Territory in 1880, we follow the quiet, haunted figure of Missouri Bill—played with quiet intensity by Jon Grillo—a veteran of the Civil War who’s fled the violence of the East for a new life out West. But peace proves elusive. When a ghost from Bill’s bloody past emerges in the form of a mysterious pursuer, he’s forced to confront both physical and psychological demons in a brutal showdown that’s as much about memory as it is survival.
Shot on location with a local cast and crew, this film leans into its limitations. There’s no grandiose shootouts or sweeping vistas here—just dusty trails, tense silences, and character-driven storytelling. The production design is minimalist but authentic, and the cinematography makes excellent use of the rugged Idaho landscape. The music—written and performed by director Jarrod Christman—underscores the mournful tone, adding a real sense of place and mood.
Though made on a shoestring budget, Missouri Breaks: The Ballad of Missouri Bill is all about doing more with less. It's a quiet film, meditative in places, but with sharp edges. Think The Assassination of Jesse James on a micro-budget. The story isn’t breaking new ground, but its sincerity and focus on internal conflict give it emotional weight. And while the dialogue is sparse, the performances—particularly Grillo’s—carry the emotional load with surprising depth.
This one may fly under the radar for most, but for fans of the genre—or anyone who appreciates a slow-burn indie drama with a dusty heart—this is well worth your time. It’s rough, it’s raw, and it’s got a heart as heavy as a saddlebag full of regrets.
Final Verdict:
A rugged, introspective indie Western that favours mood and character over action and spectacle. One for the lonesome cowboy in all of us. 🤠🌄👨👧👦🍿
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Missouri Breaks The Ballad of Missouri Bill
Sidey: Missouri Breaks colon. The Ballad of Missouri
Bill.
doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. Or an IMDB entry.
Reegs: Right. Doesn't even have an IMDB entry.
Sidey: Right.
Dan: It's brand new. I think it's just been released out, isn't it?
Sidey: But it's a small, independent, low budget western. so Writer, director, star. Same guy.
And his name is Jared Christman.
Reegs: Oh, okay.
Cris: Or Christman, depending on where you're from.
Sidey: Yeah.
Reegs: Mm. Or
Cris: which
after watching this, I, I, I did tell you off air.
I apologize already.
Sidey: Well, let's see. '
cause maybe Dan and myself and you, Chris watched this re didn't have time.
Reegs: I didn't have.
Sidey: So maybe, maybe some of us will have something positive to say
Dan: because this, this is it's not big budget. You can see straight away. This is art house, I would say kind of approach.
There's people. Who have made this, written it, done all the music. It's a laborer love [00:01:00] kind of thing. You can see that the,
Sidey: well,
they seem
to be fans of
the genre for sure,
I'm trying to keep it alive.
Dan: Fans of the genre, also musicians, I think, 'cause they did the tracks themselves.
Sidey: Yeah. I was wondering if, if
the,
the Missouri breaks, is that the name
Of
the band?
That did the soundtrack because, yeah,
'cause
one thing when it's told in a sort of episodic, episodic structure.
Reegs: Yes.
Sidey: Okay.
There's four different chapters to it or vinegarette.
But While we were watching it, I was really enjoying the score. I. When it's the kind of guitar.
Yeah. And the fiddle
kind of like traditional western
kind of sound western Yeah. Then it breaks into
what sounds like Nickelback. Oh during all the actiony bits,
Cris: it's not nickelback. It's
Sidey: but It sounds like that sounds quite, that's,
Cris: quite, that
Sidey: really sort of
contemporary rock music of the most generic, horrible it's really loud and really over the like.
Over the top of the action.
Do you know what I mean? I don't mean over the top. I mean, it's too loud. It takes away [00:02:00] from
what you seeing, what
Cris: the action is. Yeah.
Dan: Do that to me, to be honest, I I quite enjoyed this soundtrack. I thought it
Sidey: I, I enjoyed everything
apart from the nickel backes stuff. But the story itself so we start off, we're in
Reegs: we It's a period piece, is it?
Sidey: Yeah. It's set in 1880 Wyoming.
Reegs: There's
no relation to the, there's a Jack Nicholson film, isn't there?
Sidey: There's a 1976 Missouri breaks and that's got Jack Nisson and Marlon Brando.
Reegs: And it's no relation to that or
Dan: nothing to do with that. Which I thought it might be when I first I thought, oh, is this a playing off a character in that film?
Or you know, is it a prequel sequel that
Reegs: they
it's none of those. It's an original period piece set in 1880 in Wyoming.
Sidey: And it's, it's about this guy Missouri, bill. And we're gonna get to learn a bit about his backstory and what's going on. But at the, the time that we meet him, the very first bit, he's got a guy who's pointing his gun at him.
The guy's silence guy's got he is beating up a bit and he is giving him an ultimatums, like giving him instructions Right? you, you owe me.
We dunno quite
what's happened to [00:03:00] get us to this point, but he's given him some instructions. You need to go off there, see this guy,
do exactly what you're told,
If you don't fucking do what you're told, I will find you and I'll fucking kill you.
You know. Oh, okay. And then we go back to before that, don't we
few weeks before
Dan: Yeah. And
Sidey: on the screen
Dan: he's our, our kind of hero star guy. He's speaking to the wife and saying, I'm going to be running this cattle. why are you doing it?
There's, there's a guy there shooter shoot mcg Gavin and he, he's like a. A bad apple. Why are you going off with him? I don't like him. I, I'd feel a lot more comfortable if you, if you're going look, it's, I'm going with another guy, another few guys. They're all cool. It's, it's a good gig. This, it's lots of money.
I'm gonna be gone about three, four weeks or something. But you know, then we can get that house up that you wanted down in another place, or we can, we can move off. So it, [00:04:00] it's worth it. She's not convinced, but he goes anyway and they've just gotta drive this these
Sidey: three, or four cattle.
Dan: Yeah. Yeah. There's not
Cris: yeah, there's not that
Sidey: they just Don't
have the budget
for it.
But it works It still works All Right. Yeah. there's, there's, there's a landowner guy, five or 30,
Dan: or 30, you know, you expect him back in their day, they've been 500, you know, but they don't
Sidey: guy's taken a
punt, doesn't he? He says, oh, this must have cost a lot. He goes, yeah, it did. But you know, It'll
pay off eventually. But he doesn't have enough help to like push these cattle around.
the, the
Dan: And,
and, you can imagine, you know, they weren't all 500 header cattle. You know, some, somebody's starting out a little bit smaller and he is saying, you know, we need the, not gonna eat any of them because we need these to have more calves
Sidey: and, yeah.
Dan: That's how I'm gonna make my money.
And that guy, smiley, is his name, smiley? Yeah, he's he's a nice guy, but he's very sort of straight. I mean, the actors, they all seem like they were mates or something, you know, that he's called in
Cris: he speaks the, the guy, this is my take on it because Missouri [00:05:00] bill is, you know, beard, long hair. He looks like a cowboy. He looks like a, like a cattle, you know, like, like he would fit and he kind of speaks a bit more from the south or more like how the Wild West would sound.
But smiley sounds like. He's a lawyer or he's a, you know, I dunno, he just sounds, he just sound, they're all dressed in the Western gear, but he just sounds like,
Dan: well he is the strong and silent type a lot of the time as well.
He doesn't have much, does he? To, to say just, which you can again, imagine back in the day, people were, you know, not
Cris: more stoic
Sidey: It's just tough. I mean, it's proper frontier.
stuff
Reegs: and that's the staple of the genre as well. The Yeah.
Sidey: But they, it gets to the end of the job and then him and shoot and mcg Gavin go off together. They, they become quite good pals
Dan: For
Sidey: time.
Dan: I think
Sidey: see
Dan: known each other before,
Sidey: Yeah,
they've got history and. We see them at various nights around the campfire having some grub. And, you know, their routine is, is them two together. And they get on. all right. They're
Dan: stories around the [00:06:00] campfire and it, it turns out that our main guy, what's his
Cris: Missouri.
Dan: Missouri. Bill. Missouri Bill. He, he's used to be a law man,
Sidey: that's Smiley that asked him, 'cause he sees his tattoos, isn't he? And he says, oh, I didn't know he used to be a ranger.
he said, yeah, I was. And you Know how, he said, how come you're not doing that He goes well. A lot of dead people.
There was an incident
and there was a lot of dead
Dan: don't like being shot at
Cris: in Memphis
Sidey: Yeah. And this is easier than being shot at and shooting people. So just, you know, that's like his prior, his, his previous life. And now he just kind of does this Okay. You sort of implied that maybe his wife got a bit freaked out by as well. And this is like the compromise. They've, they've moved away from that.
Right. And they're doing this sort of more kind of, like proper cowboy stuff. you
Reegs: But more honest work, more or less like.
Sidey: Yeah. But things can't go on like this
forever.
Dan: No.
Cris: shot, sorry to interrupt, but it's also shot in a way that you never see shooter.
Sidey: No. You never see his
face. So there
Cris: the through the chapters,
Reegs: is there some big reveal as to who shooter [00:07:00] is?
It's just,
Sidey: no,
it's, it is told like, you know.
Cris: You know, there's a, there's another
Sidey: person.
You just never see his face.
Reegs: All right.
Cris: The idea is, the way it's shot sometimes is, it's almost like a POV from shooter's point of view. Okay. Where, where he speaks about shooter, but the camera is basically shooter.
Sidey: And yeah, so he's explains all this to Smiley, and then Smiley's got some questions about shooter. And he says, oh, I've heard some stuff about him. And he says, yeah, his his mom died when he was dead young. And then his dad took to the booze And he was just abandoned, basically. And he says, oh, I, one thing I know is that children that grow up without father tend to be wrongs.
And so we know he is. this guy's got like
a bit
of
a, A bad streak to him.
Dan: They, they've been friends and they fought the war together as well. And that's one of the things he says to the wife is she's upset that he's, he's leaving for those three weeks. She said, I, I survived the war, didn't I? You know, it's don't worry about me.
I'll be fine. I got out of that. Okay. And
And, and [00:08:00] him, him, him and shooter were in the wall together. And it turns out in one of the. Campfire sessions,
Reegs: which war
Dan: having. So I imagine the, the Civil War. Yeah. Civil
Reegs: War. So he is former Civil War soldier and, and former Ranger as well.
So how he's, how old is he?
Sidey: 30.
Cris: like in his late forties, I would say. Or mid forties.
Sidey: It's tough paper around there. It probably wasn't that up.
Reegs: Yeah, well it's the west, well, west four unit.
Dan: that's right. Probably 20. But they've, and, and it flashes it, then it kind of breaks a scene. So it goes to the next vinegarette and it will talk about them driving the cattle.
And there's one of those heifer goes. Missing or wanders off. And they kind of go back and say, oh, they're talking again about shooter. He's gone to find it and they'll come back and it, at one point it's just smiley. And well, bill, and he's saying what happened [00:09:00] about, you know, why? 'cause he, he, he was asked.
Point blank by one of the younger guys. Tell me about why he did the, the law. And he goes, ah, that's another story, another time. But these two old hands are together now and it's just them two. And he's asking him what happened? well, we were kind of. Pinned down in the war in a, in a shooting situation or something.
And one of our men got killed and we managed, me and shooter managed to round up the rest of 'em. There's like seven of them. We disarmed them and we'd taken their guns away and
they were
kind of, you know, caught 'em all up and everything. And the captain then came of their regiment. He was a good man and there was one guy of that
from
Kentucky or something who had been talking too much.
He'd been talking too much about the guy that had been shot on their side. He had. Been [00:10:00] shot, but nobody could get up to go and save him because they would be shot running out into the open ground the same. So he was just there for hours shouting and shouting and then, and then just bled out. And then it was silence.
And while Bill was talking about, I really liked this, you know, I, I thought this story
Reegs: atmospheric, isn't it?
Yeah. So
Dan: It's around the, the campfire. And he is saying, I
Reegs: He just listened to the guy die.
Dan: just listen to the guy die. And I'd never heard a, you know, a, a. Silence like that before it was really chilling and it affected shooter
Reegs: Yeah, that's why I can't keep thinking about this movie's being essentially told from the perspective of shooter.
Are you saying because the camera
Dan: the, the camera's there a lot of the time, but what
Cris: not, he's not always present.
Yeah.
Dan: Hardly at all.
Cris: No, no. But around the campfire, he's there when there's only the two of them running the cattle, there's a different conversation without him there. It, it's, it's interesting, but it's also a bit, because you never see him, you don't really know when, [00:11:00] when he is there or not.
Dan: I mean, they've, as I say, they've clearly done the, it's not a Hollywood budget film, you know, this is, is something that they've probably put together for a, a few hundred grand at the most, you know and it's, it's around the story and the
Reegs: which is these episodes that sort of build on backstory and all that sort of stuff. Yeah. And is there a greater narrative that runs through them all or,
Dan: well, this, this, this part here is, as I say, shooter is in this story, he ended up killing these seven guys and the captain
Reegs: Ooh.
Dan: and, and. He, while Bill kind of knew it had happened and it, the, the thing is he's, he's either suppressed it or he just didn't want to admit it because he was kind of a friend at one point.
And he knew that he had this wild side about him, but he didn't really want to ever admit it that he had done this. And he goes, how did the captain die? [00:12:00] And he goes, oh, he just seemed to get stabbed in the Malay of a big fight. 'cause they just made it up. There was a, a big fight. He must have gone off for a bit and come back and you see it was, it was just this pool of blood you know, they were all kind of whining and dying and and shoot, there was just cold eyes.
Didn't say anything,
Sidey: but shoot, shoot is when he's left the war, he's been shot. he's Been wounded like severely a couple of times. He always survives. Right.
Dan: Yeah. More holes in him
Sidey: which is the theme that come, that comes back later on. But things are really gonna get interesting now because
Cris: they deliver the cattle, they,
Sidey: they,
they finished the job.
Yeah.
Dan: He gets paid and he says, it's my last job. I'm not doing it anymore. I'm going off.
Reegs: as he promised his wife, we're gonna buy the big house.
Dan: this triggers something in Shooter who considers he's a friend and.
to, he needs him as
a partner and he doesn't take well to people leaving him repressed father kind of thing going [00:13:00] on.
Sidey: So he gets Silas and he gets another dude. that, I can't remember his connection to, it all.
Cris: Yeah. He's just another, another cowboy. Yeah. I can't remember
Sidey: the three of them.
And they go off to
Dan: to Wild Bill's house. Wild Bill's
Sidey: Bill's house go and take the wife, beat her up and kid her.
Reegs: right.
Dan: And gonna sell her to the Indians or,
Sidey: or,
rape her or just blackmail him or whatever.
But they, they
The
shooter is left behind a little bit of something off his, part of his fucking,
Reegs: so Missouri
Sidey: like a, a like a belt buckle effectively, and he finds it on the floor bill and thinks, Right. You fucker, I'm coming for you.
Reegs: Mm-hmm.
Dan: So,
he
Reegs: so it becomes a revenge movie now? Yeah.
Dan: He goes into Terminator mode. He got a mate called the Reverend who's a. He's is a reverend who's kept his stuff in a trunk.
He goes to a
Sidey: He's hidden tree
Dan: where he is hidden a key, and then he goes to the reverend, he gets all out his old stuff and everything.
Cris: He's all black like it all in black.
Sidey: the, it's the man in black.
routine Now[00:14:00]
Dan: Yeah, his spurs, his guns and everything and he's gonna kick ass. And he goes back to Smiley's place who kind of. Heard they might be going up one way and if he goes another way, he might be able to head him off.
And Smiley says, do you want me to come with you? And he goes, no, no, for me. I'm just gonna go and do this. And he manages to find them and start shooting them down and everything.
Sidey: He does some nice tracking, doesn't he? 'cause he, yeah, we
have seen a shot. He gets shot basically by. Shooter, he's out in the open. Yeah. And we see him get sh shot with
a
rifle and
Dan: right. Yeah. Just after he is taken the wife
Sidey: of becomes irrelevant really. 'cause he does eventually go after him and he's tracking them and he goes a full Aragon here he can see bits of broken twig on the floor. And he can tell that actually that's been broken fairly recently.
Reegs: Okay.
Sidey: Okay.
In that
Dan: in that direction. You
Sidey: almost sort of smell them. And then he, he does get, get the scent of them and they are very close and they, they've basically gone taken the high grounds and he's at the bottom. [00:15:00] And they've got him pinned down with rifle and a couple of
just
handguns, just pinning him down. But they're fucking useless. So eventually he's just like, right. And shooters sort of
like
egging him on saying, oh, maybe I'll just keep it for myself and fucking have my way with her. And then he is like, right, fuck it. And he.
he just gets
up and sort of just basically walks towards them and they can't fucking hit a bond door.
No.
Reegs: Well I think a lot of shootouts were like that in the west, weren't
Sidey: Yeah. So Silas.
Reegs: a lot
Sidey: he just pistol whips and hits it is like, fuck off. And I think he knows. if He is like, stop in a prick. And then the next guy, he just guns him down and shoot legs exit
Dan: a exit. And he's run outta bullets, but he manages
Sidey: he gets him the wife actually the wife's been
quite instru in the fight. She's gone over and sort of
knocked him down
and then he's got her and she's biting him. But Yeah, he sees shooter running
Reegs: when people are shot. Is it like Squibbs and stuff or just
Sidey: like almost no blood in it at
all.
He, he can't shoot him. He's run out
Dan: been punched
Sidey: Yeah, she's been beaten up a bit
Reegs: bit of makeup,
Dan: of makeup in the, in the face and everything.
Sidey: Then then we go back, to, this is where he's had, started at the very start of the movie [00:16:00] and he is,
Reegs: I see
Sidey: you tell me where He is gone. He's like, I dunno where he is going. He's like, if you don't fucking tell me I'm just gonna kill you.
He's I
dunno But this is when he gives him that ultimatum. you go to whatever town it is. Do this, do that. And he's gonna follow him. He is gonna find out where he is. Basically the crux of how he's gonna, vote. they're gonna have this fucking head to head. Yeah.
So he's got, now Silas on his side, he's got the Reverend and smiley, George
Smiley from, yeah.
Tinker Taylor.
Cris: he sends his Mrs. Home.
Sidey: Yeah, he drops her off says, I've gotta go and do
this.
Dan: He, he drops off at Smiley's place, isn't he? And smiley and his Mrs. Is there, and they take her in and he goes, right, I'm off again. You know what I've gotta do, don't you? And she's off you
Sidey: But this is where he's, he's been to this native guy because one of the chapters called the Oracle, and this guy says to him while they're smoking the Peace pipe, he's like, This is your demon to slay. you know, He is like, I just don't, I don't
get
Dan: I dunno, that guy's like a figment of his imagination,
Cris: he? Almost, yeah. I
Dan: think that guy is, and he's a guy I think you would've seen before in, in, in other [00:17:00] films that
Sidey: like a little big man and stuff like that.
Dan: Yeah. He, he would've played native American Indians in, in other films and
Sidey: But he says, He he says, I don't get it. Like he got shot in the war and he survived and he got shot here.
And he goes, that's because it's only you that can end this. You're the one who has to take him
down.
Dan: And he realizes that when they were in Memphis and he, he left, he was stabbed in Memphis.
Right. And shooters saved him. Mm-hmm. Shooter. Found him and managed to save him. But then he actually realizes he
Sidey: was, shoot,
Dan: is probably fucking shooter that did it, stabbed him. And then 'cause it was in the dark and there was a fucking ha you know, how he and he just suppressed all these things 'cause he didn't wanna
Reegs: acknowledged the
Dan: know, didn't want to acknowledge the truth.
But it comes down to a, a shootout. And,
Sidey: I think they got Silas
to basically give him a message to come to this town and they'd be, wa he'd be waiting for him.
Yeah.
So shoot comes in and then he's just there in all his gear. You See him walking out, you know, know it's a classic, you know, there's the shoot, you know, like a jewel, a dawn, yeah. The
three [00:18:00] guys are waiting, like, so he doesn't do any funny
business and it's just a
fair fight where they just like I don't know, 10 meters apart or whatever.
it is. And
Reegs: that's how the matrix fight between Smith and Neo starts, isn't it?
Sidey: And then just waiting for the draw.
Dan: And he gets, he gets a, he does it
Sidey: him, bang, shoot. He doesn't hit the deck. And you hear shoot a and they kind of, I don't know if they were setting up 'cause they just show him, they show his hand with the gun still in it.
And I thought,
oh, he is gonna, no, he's gonna do a shit. But no, he, He's dead. He's gone.
Dan: He's gone. Dead, dead.
Sidey: that's really it.
Cris: yeah.
Dan: that's really it. There was some really
Reegs: go back to Carol Smiley's.
Dan: No,
no,
Cris: They don't show anything else afterwards. It's just like the credits and
Dan: was, it is an hour, hour and a half. There was some really nice shots, you know, some stills and things and landscape because
Sidey: Yeah, I think they did do that, that quite well. They did, they did set this,
Reegs: Was
it digital or film or what was it? It,
Sidey: was digital. But
they did, you know, you can, you can get like a dig I drone and make things look really good.
And They did do that. They really paid homage to the location and, and [00:19:00] some of the period detail I thought was, was spot on. their Outfits. I thought maybe like almost too good. They looked.
Yeah. They
didn't look like a guy had been like doing season after season of fucking cowboy Ranch. you know, they were like pristine fucking leather.
And you're like, mm. But they all looked like the right things, you
Reegs: the right detail.
Sidey: So that's probably what they could get hold of. But it's so fucking slow. It's really slow, really
slow.
Cris: It's really slow.
Sidey: for me, you just don't care about anyone. It
it.
like. fair play. They've, they've got it together and they've done it and they've made it.
But some of it's like really shoddy as well. So
they're.
they'll, they'll do a fade between one scene and another. And there's one particular one where it's him and Smiley talking,
Yeah.
and then you can see the other thing start to come in. But it's like fucking, ages, Honestly, like 30 seconds for, it to fade. into other one. You're like, just do it quicker.
I don't know. just it was a bit shoddy and the soundtrack is. So
jarring to me, the contemporary, like,
Reegs: with the nickelback is no good, is it?
Well,
Dan: it is interesting. You see the credits of modern films and they'll run for five, 10 minutes sometimes, you know,
Reegs: and a [00:20:00] half minutes. The credits for the matrix words. You
see
Dan: there you go. And they're running quite quick, you know, and the ma the, the credits for this. You see the same names
Sidey: coming Yeah. It's just a few people. Multiple roles. Yeah. so
Dan: this is. Multiple roles doing, you know, producing, editing,
Reegs: and an original story by the writer,
Dan: By the writer. Original music,
Sidey: sort of original, but
Dan: it's got, it's got to
Cris: it's very generic though.
It is not,
Dan: It's won a load of
Reegs: so is this art or is this one of these tax things where somebody's just made
Sidey: I think it's some people who are dead into it have wanted to make one and they have made it and it actually looks good. it does look good. The story itself is like generic, if not.
Like, no, I'm not gonna say it's real, but it is generic and it's just, it could be better and hopefully they'll go on after after this or you know, give them the platform to make other stuff that's really good. But if you wanna see a Western where a guy goes after someone who's had off with his wife, then watch the outlaw Joseph Wells. 'cause it's amazing. This is not that.
Dan: no,
[00:21:00] that's it. And I think it's unfair to compare it to something like the production value of, of that where
Sidey: but it's not, but you watch. but Clint has, you know, Clint has something on the screen. that they no amount of money
with these, people would get that. You just don't gonna get that.
Dan: No, I, I get that there.
I mean, there obviously it was a. It was a labor of love. This, you could see that they'd put a, a lot of time and effort into it that there was it certainly, you know, missed a, a few tricks in, in as far as Clint Eastwood or, you know, whoever's gonna be pointing the camera would have it for his experience or, and it looked like.
They probably could have done with that extra expertise and input into turning this into, you know, just polishing it a little bit more as far as the
Sidey: but
good horse content.
Dan: content, I, I just think that it'd be interesting to know there's not a lot online. The interesting to know the budget and, and you know, the time [00:22:00] it took and, and everything to do it.
But for me it's like this is a minuscule budget. It's quite a big project in the, in the size. Big ambitions, big ambitions and things.
Reegs: Well, we like that sort of thing
Dan: that sort of thing, and I, I think it's. You know, fair play to him. I mean, I enjoyed it. It, it was I think that it is just the kind of films that people can make themselves.
Yeah. You know, that you've got the ambition, you've written it, you've done the music, you've done all the editing, and you say, I did this fucking western. Check it out and it stands up. You know, give them a 5 million quid.
Experts to do the editing for them and to
Reegs: me 5 million quid
Dan: And you could get a lot, you could get a lot more out of it, I think, but hopefully, as side said, this will give them the, the springboard to go and do some more and make it a good show of it.
I enjoyed it. I enjoyed
Sidey: What, what are you saying, Chris?
Cris: I've recommended it because I've looked on Amazon Prime and it kind of popped up and I, I, [00:23:00] I always love a western. I've seen that it was at a few festivals and I thought, right, this must be a bit of a niche one, but I thought it's gonna be something about it. Very slow paced.
It's, it's a bit too slow for me. The stories and the idea initially and the fact that you never see shooter, I thought it was really interesting and really original. Really to, to not actually see the actor. That is probably the main
Reegs: Well, that's right. It seems quite weird that,
Cris: Bill. But, and, and, and it's in, in Sudan's point.
I don't know the numbers and I looked to, to try to find the budget
Sidey: whatever. There's nothing on
Cris: I've seen, I've seen the, some fucking thing with Nicholas Cage, who definitely had a bigger budget than this. Yeah. And it was. Probably worse than this. Yeah, he was just shooting Buffalo and just, I can't remember. I, I talked about about it on the pod a couple of months ago and I watched it just because I thought, oh, okay, this is gonna be a western, it's gonna cage, it's gonna be fine.
This one was kind of on the level, but [00:24:00] definitely a lot of millions under the budget of that. So with that in mind, it wasn't that bad.
Just too slow.
Sidey: It's really
slow. It's really
Cris: And, and for a western revenge at the same time, it doesn't have the cliches of a Western, there's no poker table, there's no, the only shootout, like real shootout is at the end when you kind of expect
Reegs: Mm-hmm.
Cris: There's no too thick and
Reegs: a bar looking a saloon. Doors.
Cris: exactly.
There's no.
Dan: a saloon and they, they did serve beer, which looked far too good.
It looked
Sidey: It looked. I was like, I'd drink That
Dan: Yeah. Yeah. It was like, I bet they wouldn't get that back in their day. It'd be like
Sidey: Everything was a bit off
Cris: but you know what I mean, they didn't look, they didn't have the poker table, they
Sidey: No, no,
Cris: the, or the, I dunno, three car Monte or whatever, or
Reegs: prostitute
Cris: the proceeds.
They didn't have that. So it was, it was, it was less cliche
Dan: cast,
Cris: cast, less cliche than that. And also it didn't have any. Indian killing, and there was no relation to Indians. They didn't really do any, any
Sidey: no, it was white on white [00:25:00] crime.
Cris: It was just the, the guy that was either a vision or or a
his conscience really, or whatever.
So strong, recommend.
Sidey: Strong,
Dan: Strong recommend.