AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Leofwine_draca OUTLAWS AND ANGELS is a recent western that seems to have been inspired by Tarantino's THE HATEFUL EIGHT. Like that film, the setting is a single building where a God-fearing family are assailed by a group of bandits with murder and more in mind. A film like this only succeeds if the script is a real zinger, but sadly the script here is pedestrian at best. It goes for a psychological approach with a number of character intricacies and sexual aspects, but it feels trite and pseudo-intellectual as a result. There's no suspense of any kind and some stark moments of shocking violence don't amount to much. The whole thing is also way overlong. The film is full of familiar faces but only Francesca Eastwood really stands out; the rest seem bored by the whole experience.

david-546 Criminales e Angelis! That might as well have been the name of this film that oddly pays homage to the classic Spaghetti Westerns. Unsavoury characters, ultra violence, twisty plot, offensive scenes it had it all. You couldn't like any of these people. Even the supposed lawmen were unsavoury. One almost expected everyone in the film to be dubbed except for a few main characters. Dubbing might have helped (or subtitles) as it seemed that almost everyone mumbled but you got the drift. A band of outlaws (criminales) rob a bank in some dusty unnamed western town complete with hoods. Innocent people get killed (they are just bystanders after all). They escape but one of them is hit as they leave town. From there on its a rough ride as they wind up holing up with a christian family and everything becomes twisty, and ugly with gore and scenes enough to make you cringe. But the sets are great and the feel of being trapped in a place with a band of outlaws, a screaming christian mother and the very unsavoury minister of a father with their two daughters. To give it even better feel of a being a spaghetti western there is the Clint Eastwood connection. Clint's former live-in Francis Fisher plays a somewhat hysteric christian woman while the daughter of Clint's and Francis's years together Francesca Eastwood is the the Angeli of the title. And what an Angeli she makes. Francis Fisher also played Ruth Dewitt Bukater, Rose's mother in Titanic and Strawberry Alice in Eastwood's Unforgiven.As gore piles upon gore and cringing scenes pile on cringing scenes and the body count rises one is reminded that others can do what Tarantino and Peckinpah have done before. You can't like any these characters but you do admire the way the actors play them making it all seem too real. Just like the old spaghetti westerns.

sonorantag In my view: anyone who talks down on this picture or claims its only "senseless violence," just didn't get it. Truly amazing and original movie. I don't often give out that kind of praise. Rest assured, I detest overkill when it comes to blood & gore in a movie. Im a big believer in good taste. However, I also believe any kind of artistic portrayal is justified, as long as it's warranted by plot and backed by a legitimate statement. I believe that's what's going on in this picture. It's gutsy, and unflinching. It doesn't spare you the uncomfortable details, because it's trying to illustrate a point of view. Sometimes being shocked or being made to feel ill at ease forces us to question our values, examine beliefs, re-think a world view. And you should never hesitate to pressure test your views, that is, if you want to believe what's true. But, Just like pain and discomfort are involved in physical exercise, to strengthen the muscles, many times the only way to expand your mind is to be made to witness unpleasant, uncomfortable things. Then afterward: examine one's own beliefs and question them. That's a big part of "Outlaws & Angeles". I can't remember seeing such a unique, unpredictable, provocative film... maybe ever. Hollywood's not a place known for 2nd chances. In a very clannish, cut throat, unforgiving industry: really takes a lot of balls to make a movie like this one, and true talent to do it so artistically. Believe me, I hate gore and smut and profanity when they're done purely for shock value. Or in place of a real story. But those things can have a place in a film as a valid part of a story, backed by a valid statement. If you didn't like it, I recommend you give it another chance. Maybe you were turned off by something you saw then missed things as a result. Try suspending the inner moral guardian voice and be as open minded as you can. You may pick up on some things not noticed last time. "Outlaws" Blew me away, Believe me, I'm not the type who's easy to impress. It's Firmly in my top 10 of all time or higher. One of a kind Picture!

Tom Dooley A gang of outlaws viciously rob a bank in Cuchillo, New Mexico and make off with the loot. Knowing they are being pursued they take a detour and go through an arid valley to throw off their pursuers.They rock up at an isolated farmhouse and Chapel where they take captive the preacher, his wife and their two squabbling daughters. Over the course of the night secrets are unmasked and allegiances change in a constant ebb and flow of emotions and it seems that some scores just have to be settled.Now this is a very good Western, it is realistic, well acted and does not pull any of its many punches. It starts off with the intention to shock and grab your attention and then keeps that up for the duration. There are a couple of points where you do question the on screen antics but to mention them runs the risk of being a plot spoiler. And in the final analysis they do not overly harm the full impact of this rather good and inventive film.