Thursday, September 6, 2012

The Baytown Outlaws (2012)


Also Known As: The Baytown Disco
Year of first release: 2012
Director: Barry Battles
Actors: Clayne Crawford, Travis Fimmel (The experiment), Daniel Cudmore (X-men 2&3), Paul Wesley, Billy Bob Thornton (Armageddon, The Man who wasn't there, Bandits), Zoe Bell (Death Proof, stunt double of Uma Thurman in Kill Bill), Eva Longoria
Country: USA
Genre: Action
Conditions of visioning: 05.09.2012, CINEMA theater, MFFF2012
Synopsis: Three bandit brothers from Alabama go to Texas to get back the kid of a woman who gave them good money for the job. Meanwhile an investigation on their last activities might put them in trouble for good.
Review: This is a badass movie: guns, car chases, hot chicks with guns, mexicans with guns, indians with guns, you name it. The ennemies they encounter are bigger and badder, until a point where we believe to be in a post-apocalyptic movie like Mad Max 2. Carlos (played by Thornton at ease in this role), the guy from whom they took the kid, will stop at nothing to eliminate the Oodie brothers.
Between the action scenes, we learn to like those three guys: one head, one a bit dumb, and one giant mute ex-wrestler. They develop a kind of family relationship with the kid. The atmosphere of the movie is nice but I found it uneven, and some ideas were clearly taken from other movies (example: the car chase with gun on the music of Lynyrd Skynyrd like in The Devil's Rejects).
Note that some dialogs are hard to follows in the thick southern US accent, and I recommend watching the movie with sub-titles.
Rating: 6 /10

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