A Tale of Two Guns (2022)

If I had to guess I would say that director Justin Lee is aiming for a meta-western, and A Tale of Two Guns (a title that must have sounded great on paper but which makes little contextual sense) certainly is very self-aware – even a little too much for its own good; here is a movie where the score in a scene set in a saloon (though according to the sign outside it is a “club” rather than a saloon) is Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer.” There is also a lot of talk about “the end of an era” and “a dying breed” and “figur[ing] out what men like us are gonna do in this life” now that “The organ…

Wuchak

7.0

Apr 6, 2026

**_Hardened men fighting and willing to die in the desolate Southwest_** I saw the writer/director’s “Any Bullet Will Do” from four years earlier and was really impressed, so I wanted to try one of his later films to see if he was a consistent filmmaker. It turns out he is. While I like the other one better due to the wintry Montana milieu and spunky Jenny Curtis, this one is worthy in its unique way. For one thing, it’s more serious; not that “Any Bullet Will Do” was a comedy, but it did feature winks of dark amusement. Secondly, the setting is totally different, consisting of the bleak…