6 Guns (2010)

Best movie ever!

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

All around a terrible movie; I started the movie with a positive attitude simply because its a western but as time went on it just got worse, but really what could you expect from a movie with a budget of just 100k. It was way too cheesy and predictable. The majority of the actors weren't great either. The story line seemed a bit stupid, the woman practiced for literally 2 days shooting and at the end was barely able to, then she goes straight into a gunfight resulting in her having to be saved, twice, then after its all over she goes onto become a professional bounty hunter? Seems a bit dumb considering she can't even shoot in the first place. Btw, killing the two kids at the start was stupid, movies seem to do this a lot just for sympathy and I think it's a terrible way to gain the viewers sympathy. Wouldn't give this movie anymore than a 3/10 because even with 3 I'm being a bit generous.

6 Guns was the most disappointing thing since my son. I mean, how much more could you possibly screw a simple western movie? And while my son eventually hanged himself in the bathroom of the gas station, the unfortunate reality of 6 Guns is that it will be around. Forever. It will never go away. It can never be undone. I don't think i will be able to get back the 1 hour and 35 minutes I wasted watching this train wreak. If you want to watch a movie with horrible acting, story, characters, dialogue (crockpot in the 1800s? LOL), sets. Well this is a movie for you. It's like the director was like "It's stylistically designed to be that way and you can't undo that. But we can diminish the effects of it."

I disagree with the other reviewer comparing 6 Guns to True Grit. I don't see much similarity. But this movie 6 Guns has more or less the same plot as Hannie Caulder (1971) differing only in some details that make me like the older movie more. If you do not want to hear 1970s theme music then I guess you have a newer alternative, but it was already an 1800s western period piece in 1971 and I do not feel like we gained much from a newer remake with a low budget.Comparisons: In both movies outlaws kill a woman's family and rape her. She asks a bounty hunter to teach her to shoot and seeks revenge.Bounty Hunter: Barry Van Dyke does an okay job in 6 Guns playing the bounty hunter, but Robert Culp's bounty hunter in Hannie Caulder was more interesting and believable. Van Dyke's portrayal seemed too good natured to me, more like a religious monk/crusader than a guy who kills for pay. I preferred Culp's portrayal.Widow: Both films have an attractive leading lady giving an okay but not great performance as the vengeful widow. Outlaws: Borgnine, Elam and Martin are excellent in Hannie Caulder ranging from scary rapists and murderers to comic bungling robbers. The best performance I saw in 6 Guns was from Geoff Meed who seemed believably formidable and bad natured to me as the leader of the outlaws. Other supporting characters: In 6 Guns these were okay and nothing stand out. Supporting roles in Hannie Caulder were generally well acted and Christopher Lee playing a gunsmith character was very good.Set: 6 Guns seemed a bit claustrophobic to me with a limited number of sets / interiors. Hannie Caulder has expansive exterior location shots and more sets used.If you are interested in 6 Guns I suggest you watch Hannie Caulder (1971)

The Asylum have made the odd halfway decent movie, though their best don't rise beyond that. Most of their resume is either very bad or bottom-of-the-barrel stuff. Luckily for 6 Guns it is one of their more tolerable outings. It is less than perfect though. There are stretches throughout the movie where it is too slowly paced, and unfortunately in those moments there is not much happening to disguise that problem. When the action it was good and brutal, there was just too little of it and when it wasn't there that was when the film started to drag. Sage Mears has a sort of sweet and sour role that requires many emotions, but while she is beautiful she doesn't convince as a vengeful woman, she is rather emotionless with no fire behind the eyes and even when she is raped people who have lost any kind of sporting round have shown much more emotion. It is not without its anachronisms(the use of the term crack-pot really jarred with the period) and outside of the heroes and villains the characters are one-dimensional with not that much development to them. On the plus side, 6 Guns is one of The Asylum's better looking movies, the photography is not choppy and the sets look great with a much cleaner look. The soundtrack I really liked too, the criticisms that it is too modern is valid but whether it's memorable and gives the sense of adventure and danger matters even more, the score for 6 Guns does fit those qualities. The script is certainly tighter and less cheesy than usual and it also deserves credit for sticking true to the western theme. It isn't best screenplay quality but for The Asylum it is a step up. The story is not particularly original, but there is some strong tension, and the first 20 minutes is harrowing, unnerving and actually very difficult to look away. Aside from Mears, the acting is quite good. Barry Van Dyke does grizzled and stoic quite well, Geoff Meed is ruthlessly snarky and menacing and Greg Evigan plays admirable and stern endearingly. Even Shane Van Dyke is tolerable, and I don't rate him highly as an actor at all, and directing-wise this is far more assured and competent than Titanic II and Paranormal Entity. All in all, not that bad, for The Asylum it is one of their better efforts definitely. 6/10 Bethany Cox