Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Many of the scenes in this movie are visually quite stunning and it is worth seeing simply for the scenes. It is as if the movie originated as a set of excellent still photographs that were allowed to slowly blossom to life. The camera work is of course excellent. I could see filling an art gallery with stills from this movie. I could see hanging stills from this movie in my home and enjoying them every day.The accents were of little significance to me (I thought they were German). There were many immigrants of Germanic and Eastern European descent in America. It was more noticeable that _everyone_ except Kilmer seemed to be German.This movie had one of the most explicit descriptions of sex that I've ever heard as the female bartender described to a potential lover how he would make love to her in exquisite detail. It was quite torrid! It was as if I were watching a movie made by a cinematic Cormac McCarthy, akin to "Blood Meridian", but the images, although striking, were not quite the standard archetypes of Western literature and so it fell somewhat short. I believe this director is one to watch in the future because he is very, very close to doing with cinema what McCarthy does with literature. And if he does that then it will be a tremendous breakthrough, because so far McCarthy's stuff hasn't quite translated fully to the screen (or perhaps the translator hasn't been found yet).If I were Cormac McCarthy and I wanted a director and camera person to do "Blood Meridian" or others novels in film, I would want it done by the people who made this movie.

I liked this film a lot... inventive camera work, interesting music choices, very loose plot. Not a formulaic Hollywood Western here, which will displease a lot of people. Not a popcorn and soda movie, but one that has left me thinking about it the next day.Also, Val Kilmer is not really in this movie, which will also upset people. I mean, he's technically there, with like 30 sec screen time and no lines. It was interesting how much weight this unimportant character was lent because of his star power, though.This is an avante-garde European director doing a Western film... all hail the modern day cross- cultural mash up!

The only reason I rented this movie was that Val Kilmer rarely stars in a bad movie. There is of course a first time for everything. In many ways, this movie proves that oaters aren't as easy to make as we think, especially by foreign directors. The only one who got by with it was probably Sergio Leone, but even his movies lacked that something indefinably innate to our American psyche and panache. American actors in Clint Eastwood and Henry Fonda did help . I can see now why they changed the original title from "Summer Love" to " Dead Man's Bounty". That itself tells me the producers and director didn't have any core understanding about a western other than those standard shoot'em up scenes and violent themes. I suppose we can say the same about American directors attempting to make a Polish movie while failing miserably in the process.

As most of you, I've watch a lot of great movies; In between those we often either voluntarily or mistakenly also find those movies that are so pointless that we think of reasons as to why anyone would make it. This is exactly what I can say for Dead man's bounty....The very least I can do is try to "warn" some of you. If you enjoy being entertained by a motion picture because of the story, acting and intensity than you might want to chose something else. Now, it's not all bad.....In fact, if all you want is creative film editing, and unique angles along with original music ambient than you might think it's OK. As someone that values movie plots, acting and being entertained by a film, the truth is I thought this movie was so terrible beyond words. I could easily find a spot for it on my list of worst movies seen in a while. As for having Val Kilmer in this, the truth is he was casted probably as a favor to the director; As a fan of some of Kilmer's films, I can't understand what his motive for this was. The movie seems part western part romance.........In the end, I'm sure most of you can agree with me that it simply is a rude waste of our time. In case you haven't seen this movie, my recommendation would be to avoid it completely.