Texas Rangers (2001)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Too much of everything

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Western featuring a great main and support cast , though this sat on the self for almost two years dealing with events happened after American civil war , a decade later it ended , the prior Texas Rangers had disbanded to fight for Confederacy and the Union Army was occupying Texas , charged pmainly with defending Texas from defectors depredation and Indian attacks . Texas governor asking for help McNelly to form a company of Rangers to defeat the banditry along the Mexican frontier . Some cheerful greenhorns who volunteer to fight outlaws along the Rio Grande in 1875 Texas . As youngsters ,Jamen Van Der Berk , Usher Raymond , Jon Abrahams and Ashton Kutcher , band together and enlist the famous Texas Rangers commanded by the mysterious McNelly : McDermott. All are robbed of their families by the bad guys led by the really nasty Alfred Molina . The demanding mentor teaches them to shoot and kill at whatever mean . Then , Van Der Beek to avenge the death of his family and becoming an aide to the unit's enigmatic commandant against the rustling racketeers who continue committing daring robbery raids and bloody massacres. This Western is not bad , but its script is derivative , plain , superficial , and simple . The picture has fun thanks to the breathtaking battles , noisy action and moving raids .There is a long passel of shootouts , assaults , attacks , hanging and slaughter , but taming the West takes a backseat to deep drama centered primarly about ailing starring's fate in this vengeance oater .Beautifully edited widescreen with impressive photography in Panavision by Daryn Okada , along with rousing musical score by Trevor Ravin .Casting is pretty good but hindered by weak screenplay and filmmaking . Acting honors go to Alfred Molina playing magnificently a sneering villain .After sitting on the self for 2 years , yella-belled studio exects denied the stale oater an advance screening , well aware of its weak appeal. This western revenge actioner was professionally directed by Steve Miner , in spite of failing at boxoffice .Other films concerning about Texas Rangers are the followings : Texas Rangers 1936 by King Vidor with Fred McMurray , Jack Oakie ; The Texas Rangers ride again 1940 by James Hogan with Jon Howard , Broderick Crawford ; Streets of Laredo 1949 by Leslie Fenton with William Bendix , William Holden ; Texas Rangers 1951 by Phil Karlson with George Montgomery , Noah Beery , Gale Storm .

A choppy mess! The changing of history is kinda irrelevant in films of this type, you tend to go in just wanting to be thrilled and tingled. Sadly this can do neither and can only light the fires of a youthful audience interested in the pretty stars on show. It's western genre movie making 101, MTV video style. There's no flow or reason for instances, the characterisations veer from possibly interesting to sideline dummies. It was held back for release by the studio for two years +, and tinkered with by Jack the Ripper in the editing room, so it's hardly surprising it was a major flop and didn't even make enough money back to pay for the post party cakes. The action scenes are competently handled, but these are the rare bright spots on a dull nonsensical landscape. 3/10

I watched 5 minutes and found way too many historical inaccuracies. Not a single man is dressed like a Texas Ranger. The Captain of the Rangers threatens to track down a departing Ranger because he is stealing Ranger clothes, a Ranger badge, Ranger boots, a Ranger horse. To this day, the Rangers pay for their own clothes. In the old days, most Rangers refused to wear a badge because it was thought of as a target for the bad guys. Horses were not provided to any Ranger -- officer or enlisted. Many, if not most, Rangers did not wear the traditional cowboy hats. The Texas sun is too strong. Sombreros were very popular. Rangers were always on their horses. They did not wear their guns low like a gunslinger. That would be stupid. They wore them high so that they could get to them easier while mounted.You could make 30 or 40 good movies about the Rangers and their dealings with outlaws like Bass and Hardin. They could make a darn good comedy out of the One riot/One Ranger Dallas prizefight. They could make a great movie about Judge Roy and Langtry. Judge Roy Bean is the guy who eventually put on that prizefight, even though the Rangers did everything they could to stop it. They could have made a great movie about the Ranger who tracked down Bonnie and Clyde.They could have made a monumental movie. But instead they focus on crap. They present crap. They look like crap. They dress like crap. They speak like crap. No one in Texas, past or present, speaks like the goobers in this movie.In their entire history, the Rangers lost just one important battle. Besides that battle (Salinero Revolt), this movie is the blackest mark on Ranger history.

This movie is terrible. The only value that can possibly come from watching this awful film is the unintentional laughs you'll get from it several times during the otherwise entirely wasted hour and a half you'll spend watching this. Okay here is a good place to give you this advice, don't waste that hour and a half, watch something else or do something else, I kept watching thinking and hoping it would have to get better but it never did. The writing is pathetic but what really stands out is the incredibly pathetic acting, Ashton Kutcher stinks in everything I've seen him in but this performance is by far the worst I've ever seen from him, maybe it's because this is the only non-comedy role I've seen him in so him trying to do drama really stands out as just wrong. James Van Der Beek is very bad in this too but he still shines next to Ashton Kutcher. If you don't believe me and really do have an hour and a half to waste then watch it, you will get a couple chuckles out of watching Ashton Kutcher deliver lines in a pathetic attempt to "act".