Gallowwalkers

In all honesty this movie should be taken for what it was for a bloody western action flick. It wasn't meant for the Oscar nod just a movie for folks who just wanted to go see what any other gun ho action junkie wants the film and script all seemed a little too rushed. Some plot twist were not to planned out and it def could of done more with the characters, they all seemed to be interesting but they had no back round to them and random characters kept appearing. The antagonist was predatory interesting and in all the vengeful story plot that we all like westerns for was pretty cool. .But..if you watch the movie with the intent of knowing what it was meant to be the this really was a decent flick. Not at all worth just a 1 or a 2 rating

I decided to give this flick a shot based on the "decent" looking trailer and Wesley Snipes. This isn't the first time I've been fooled by a decent trailer, and I'm sure it isn't the last. That being said, this is my attempt at not letting anyone else get fooled by the decent trailer and the fact that Wesley Snipes is in it. The story is absolute garbage. The cast is terrible. Dialogue is corny. The only saving graces for this movie are corsets and cleavage. If Wesley Snipes wasn't in this movie, I'd assume this was a F-grade (if that even exists) movie. Because Snipes is in it, I kindly give it an E-grade. In a nutshell, I have no idea how this movie even got greenlit and I pray that nobody else wastes their time on this steaming pile of crap.

I rarely rate a movie as low as I am doing Gallowwalkers. Any worse and it would have been funny bad. Unfortunately it manages to stop right before it gets there, but goes far enough for almost all movies to be better. I am not kidding. The story is a confused mess, the actors play bad, the action scenes make no sense. You know when you have dreams when it is really hot and everything seems to move in slow motion and doesn't respect any narrative and it is all a blur that you fight to make sense of and can't? That's how bad this movie is. And you might dismiss my comment and think that I have something against Snipes. No, I do not. I know he is not a good actor, but I've watched a lot of his movies. I respect him as an action star. He is like a black VanDamme. But this film... I am really astounded that it could have turned this bad. Speechless, almost.

A zombie western shot in the Namibian desert sounds like a hoot, but GALLOWWALKERS is something of a mixed bag when it comes to filmed entertainment. It may be due to the troubled waters behind the scenes, which saw Snipes arrested for tax evasion and jailed for three years. Not good news when your star is sent to prison halfway through filming. Still, it could have been a lot worse and GALLOWWALKERS does have stuff going for it. The story is pretty unique, featuring a cursed gunslinger (Snipes on strong, stylish form) whose victims always come back from the dead to be killed a second time around. The zombie stuff is handled fairly well, but the production values are weak with a distinctive B-movie look and feel to the whole thing. A solid turn from Snipes helps to anchor things, and there's enough blood 'n' guts for the horror crowd to stay tuned in. But in the end this has to go down as a failure, purely because it's completely forgettable as a film with little rewatchability. A failure that tries hard, but still a failure nonetheless.

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Growing up watching Demolition Man, Art of War, Balde trilogy, and the fan, I became a die-hard fan myself of Mr. Snipes. I felt bad of how Mr. Snipes career took a plunge after his Tax evasion case and sentence... But I had big hopes for his return... This movie was a total destruction of any hope... it is a B-Movie at best... Some of the worst acting I've ever seen, No story Nothing... Except for Mr. Snipes presence, honestly I'm not sure his presence counts in pros or cons. If you have the least respect for Mr. Snipes, take my advice and DON'T WATCH THIS DISASTER.

I watched this movie without reading any reviews for it, thankfully, as most are really harsh, most rating it as a 1. The images and camera shots are amazing and definitely made the movie more enjoyable than the plot, as well as the end credit images were superb. The plot is interesting, though not properly explained at points, as well as not addressing some key issues throughout the movie. Without Wesley Snipes, this movie would have been worse, and that's saying something. The camera kept focusing on him when he makes one word/sentence responses for way too long. The supporting cast were not written in well, and at times seemed out of place, appearing at random moments without any cause. The action scenes are good, though the close ups can be disjointing for the viewer during fast paced scenes. The flashback scenes helped to reveal the plot throughout the movie, but, the randomness of scenes and the transitional points were just irritating. The budget was about 17 million, so they might make it back, but this movie is only for those who can sit through 90 minutes of confusing scenes with little actual thought. I would rate it a 5 because I did enjoy it. The racial and gender presentations were a bit questionable and does try to identify their key audience pretty well (however narrow it will be). To anyone planning on watching it, skip it, unless you're looking for basic action and a basic storyline.

This one was a free rental from Redbox, and that's the good news. The bad news? I endured somehow - cup of coffee cooling in hand - the entire running time. Wesley Snipes stars in 'GalloW Walkers' and it is a movie brought to us by Lions Gate. Here end the positives. To be ... benevolently objective, which is more than this thing deserves, my guess is the writer was aiming for some kind of old west anime in the vein of 'Vampire Hunter D' hybridized with any other you name it Japanese undead monster hunter story you could choose from the long list available. What it all turned out to be - if it can be identified logically at all - was a blend of Clive Barker style fantasy flesh ripping violence pulled right out of Hellraiser, a new lousy take on the Blade character, and a plot so disjointed you need a fortune teller to hit you over the head for trying to connect dots that look like squares. The plot continuity is so bad that at one point two characters who've already met act like they are meeting for the first time. Out of place imagery, scene jumps to characters we've no idea about shown to us in the context that we should already know them and understand their roles, and a character recounting his entire life story in one block of dialog are but a few of the gems that await you in 'Gallow Walkers'. Bad guys the hero has already killed but who now look different appear on screen but wait, the movie forgot to first show them getting taken out. Ugh! Enough. This film is just not worth picking apart. If you enjoy watching your films with your face frozen in a sneer of confusion, boredom, aggravation and tragic hilarity, then go ahead and view Snipes' entry into the whatever genre this movie is calling itself. Sergio Leone showed us all we needed to know about the "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly". Unfortunately for 'Gallow Walkers' it only gets uglier the longer you watch it. Even if you really enjoy making fun of abominable examples of cinematic slag, even if that's how you make your living, save your eyeballs the agony and forget you've ever heard of this one. One out of ten because that's the bottom line here, minus five for the rest of the entire experience.

I thought it was a decent watch with a good Western theme. Interesting plot with enough action to keep you engaged. It tied in some religious aspects as well. Welsey Snipes played a convincing role with his character. The villains were different and unique individually. There were other sub plots some of the other reviewers probably didn't catch. Even though it is obviously fictional(it is a movie) still maintained a believable storyline as the characters dealt with the many aspects of living in a desert. This movie had sacrifice, revenge, repentance, heartbreak, and redemption. Overall I believe it to be an intriguing action western with a twist and some depth. Take it from me I watch movies for a living.

I think most Wesley Snipes fans will always remember him best from things like 'White Men Can't Jump, Passenger 57, Demolition Man' and the 'Blade' trilogy. It's because of these fun little classics that I chose to watch 'Gallowwalkers.' I did a little research before I sat down and watched it. I saw it had a (current) rating of about 3/10, but I thought, 'Hey... it's got Wesley Snipes in it – it can't be THAT bad!' How wrong I was. Normally, when you review a film, you try and get across a brief summary of the plot. I can't though here. I really didn't understand what was going on. It's a Western, only with zombies in (parts of) it. Plus the baddie has no skin. I think he came back from the dead. Snipes is... someone who did something during his tragic childhood and now has to kill people. Mainly undead people I think. And that's about it. What follows is one – seemingly random – scene after the next where something happens. Only we don't really feel any one scene is actually connected to whatever's gone on before. Basically, it's a mess. And it's cheap. It's possibly one of the cheapest-looking films I've ever seen. Most of it looks like it's been filmed in a parking lot somewhere out the back of a convenience store in Texas. And don't get me started on the dialogue. That's so bad I won't even go any further. Just believe the reviews on this one. It's as bad as 90% of people say it is. And they're right. Just avoid and remember Snipes at his best.