Lone Hero (2002)

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Blistering performances.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

When you want a showdown, this movie is it! I enjoyed this movie very well. When you play a hero in the Wild West, it's about time you start being in real life. When a biker gang comes a rolling in your town, you gotta do what you gotta do. Act out you fantasy only with one exception, you must save the people you love, for real. Lou Diamond Phillips really played it down fast as the menacing Bart. He really went to far when he caught the hero's girlfriend who he broke up a while back and ripped open her shirt showing her blue bra. Very blood curdling. The show down was the best, when the hero and Bart do a ordinary showdown gun duel. It was no contest. He didn't kill Bart, because he knows he was being a true hero to himself. This is one of the finest western like action movie I've ever seen. Instead of regular horses, the outlaws came on Harleys. That what's makes the movie very interesting. I liked it! 5 stars! Truly original. The best I've seen!

I saw parts of this movie on HBO while flipping between channels looking for something worthwhile to watch. I thought this made for HBO movie was far from what I was looking for. After seeing parts of it probably half a dozen times and being drawn in, I finally sat down and watched it from beginning to end.This movie has a straightforward simple plot. At a glance it looks like "Hollywood stock" and the average back cover synopsis at the movie store wouldn't lead you to believe different. But, this film is of higher quality. The writing is good, even witty. The acting is good. The action is a vehicle to the plot, not center stage. It is a light, benevolent, and heroic movie, with action as its backdrop.Unfortunately I haven't seen anything else written or directed by Ken Sanzel that was worth the time to watch it.

I put this movie in the same catagory as "Roadhouse" and "Maximum Overdrive" cheap and forgettable, but for some reason, I own all 3....Lone Hero is not for everyone's taste, but like the commercials for India Pale Ale up here in Canada say, "Those who like it, like it a lot."Possibly the greatest B-lister working today, Sean Patrick Flannery, stars as a bad guy in a wild west show who turns into a real hero by roughing up some criminal bikers.The cowardly townsfolk turn against him, and soon he only has a whacked out war veteran on his side. Is the fact that this is a made for cable movie obvious? yes. Is it cliched? yes.This is just a modern western, and by the time the credits role, the film will be forgotten, but it is fun escapism for the 90 minutes that it lasts. And the theme song is kind of catchy.

I caught this on HBO late-night. The scenario is pretty interesting. A guy in a wild west show who is a slacker and was just dumped by his girlfriend is forced to take action when some bad dudes cruise into town and start messing things up. There are some good shoot-outs and fights and some funny lines. The best actor in it is Robert Forster. He plays a cranky old tough guy who is good with a gun.