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Unforgiven Frankenstein


Felt to me like they scalped a few scenes directly from Unforgiven into a standard western plot. Forsaken's not a bad movie, unless you've seen Unforgiven, and then it feels de-ja-vu ish to say the least.

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That's the movie I was trying to recall while reading the description. At first I thought it was of the same story so came here to see if anyone else mentioned it.

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It has every western cliche. Sometimes cliches can be fun, but sometimes they drag a film down and they drag down Forsaken. I think part of the problem is Kiefer became so iconic as Jack Bauer and perhaps he wanted to escape that image to some degree.

We ALL know where the film is going and therefore the build up to it sort of fall flat. It wasn't a bad film, but just sort of too predictable and a little lackluster. Nothing against Jon Cassar, but directing TV shows is vastly different than movies. TV directors have very little say. Even though Cassar was a producer on 24 so he has a say in story lines, but really the directing is more or less the same with each episode. There is a lot a TV director can bring to an episode,,but there isn't as much creativity. A TV movie perhaps a little more a director can do, but you're working under restrictions in the TV format.

I think Forsaken shows us the difference in TV and film as Cassar does a fine job on TV, but his scenes lack the energy and creativity needed in a film. I respect what he wanted to do with the film, but he wasn't a strong enough director to pull it off, but he still makes a film that's more than watchable. So he succeeds in that regard

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I'm a fan of westerns, and this one is trite. Like a drawn out episode of The Big Valley.

Not a bad cast, but the performances are on the level of an old TV western as well.

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