Shadowheart

2009
4.6| 1h54m| en
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James Conners comes home to the town of Legend, New Mexico in 1865 to avenge his fathers death against the ruthless Will Tunney. Along the way he re-captures his long lost love Mary Cooper. With the chance to take Will Tunney he must choose revenge or redemption.

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Also starring Ines Dali

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Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible
BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.
Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
ullern Well made movie with stupid story and impossible plot. Too bad movie-making skills were wasted on this. The holes in the plot are baaad. But in order to make the movie last almost two hours, all the logical chances to kill the killer bad guy must be ignored. It's a phenomenon to make a movie about such a contrived, nothing story.Unbelievable actors - though some of them quite good - with bad make-up to make them look tough. Why this story should interest anyone is beyond me. The villain is so villainous his mere presence supposedly make people obey him. The sheriff doesn't even try to flee when he's attacked. No one uses any opportunity to fight back. Except at the very end - and then the hero has to be fatally wounded to get his mojo up, the wimp (sorry, for the plot-spoiler, but there's not much plot to spoil). Not sure what the morals here are supposed to be, in spite of the ref.s to the "King James bible". (Protagonist is called James - supposedly very meaningful - but meaning what? - Not much). Maybe it's: "Turn the other cheek until you're mortally wounded."Awful. 2 stars only because there might be even worse movies out there. The mind hurts at the thought.
jeromec-2 Shadowheart begins with a reference to Matthew 6:14 – 15. These two verses command people to forgive those who trespass against them as God forgives us for ours. We expect the film to connect somehow to this theme.It never does.In fact, there are so many murders (I lost track after eight), only a war movie could produce more. Yet of all the pointless mayhem, only one was justified or meaningful. If we were paying attention to the Bible verse at the beginning, no one was forgiven and therefore God should not forgive us.Big SpoilerYet the very last scene shows the dead wife of James Conners, the main character, leading him through the white light to what lies beyond – presumably heaven. We expect to see something about forgiveness and we get pointless retribution.I did not like this film not because of the violence. I think the Godfather Saga is a timeless masterpiece. I did not like this because it had Christian overtones. I think Fireproof is a good film that addresses the difficulties of modern marriage. Fireproof has many weaknesses, which a viewer has to overlook including what I think is an impossible problem to overcome. Still it's an interesting film. I disliked this film because it was disjointed. I disliked this film because it did not seem to know what it was trying to do nor where it was going. I would like to say that there was some sort of redeeming feature, but I don't think there was.I gave it a four because I kept hoping something coherent would happen. There was enough writing to create hope, alas never fulfilled.
RVBUILDER Possible spoilers ahead.Years after James left town he became a bounty hunter with the reputation of bringing his quarry back more dead than alive. He looked and acted like an hombre who could take care of himself and stay alive in his chosen profession.So what happened to all that experience when he handed over Will Tunney to the ancient sheriff and his slow-witted deputy? Didn't anybody notice Spider and Tunney's two other minions leave town in a hurry? Did they all think Tunney would roll over and let himself be taken? Apparently so, since the whole town just went to a wedding, after which the newly-married couple were sitting out in the open with a flashing neon sign over their heads that said "KILL US".Geez.
charles-copeland I really think me and my kid could have come up with a better screenplay. This totally predictable movie was one stereotype after another. Bad guys were tired old clichés and the hero was a total ZERO. What a loser. By the end of the movie I was hoping he would lose out to the bad guys! How do movies like this get into circulation? This movie showed me no creativity at all. Even the cinematography was bad-I found myself critiquing shot angles and I never have done that before. The dialog was clipped and poorly delivered, the character development was awful, the screenplay showed no imagination at all. Don't waste your time with this movie, read a cereal box instead, you'll get more out of it!

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