Gunless (2011)
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40% of critics liked it
(5 reviews) -
62% of users liked it
(1,330 ratings)
When notorious American gunslinger, The Montana Kid, staggers into the tiny Canadian hamlet of Barclay's Brush, life for the town's 17 inhabitants is about to get exciting. The Kid immediately gets into an unfortunate altercation with Jack, the town's surly blacksmith, which leads to The… More When notorious American gunslinger, The Montana Kid, staggers into the tiny Canadian hamlet of Barclay's Brush, life for the town's 17 inhabitants is about to get exciting. The Kid immediately gets into an unfortunate altercation with Jack, the town's surly blacksmith, which leads to The Kid 'calling him out' for some good old frontier justice - a showdown. But in a place totally ill prepared to deal with a classic gun fight and without a single working pistol to be found, adhering to the code of the American Wild West may prove difficult. Not able to let go of the 'code', The Kid remains stuck in Barclay's Brush, getting drawn into a strange world of eccentric rituals and characters; among them Jane, a smart sassy woman who becomes his only hope of finding a way out...or perhaps his only reason for staying... -- (C) Alliance
- Directed By
- William Phillips
- Written By
- William Phillips
- Genres
- Western, Action & Adventure, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Jul 15, 2011 Limited
- On DVD
- Aug 8, 2011
- Studio
- Cinema Eopch
Critic Reviews
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Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Gunless is harmless, the sort of pop entertainment that sets its sights low and doesn't underachieve.
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Peter Howell, Toronto Star
A comedy western loaded with chuckles that only occasionally fires blanks.
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Jim Slotek, Jam! Movies
Like Shane with whimsy, Gunless takes the hoary old template of the gunfighter movie and gives it an utterly Canadian spin based on our comfort myth of niceness.
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Jason Anderson, eye WEEKLY
Gunless is certainly eager to please. Yet for all of its broad humour and cheeky pleas to patriotism, the laughs in this comedy prove to be scarcer than teeth in Gabby Hayes' head.
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Cast
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Paul Gross
as The Montana Kid
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Sienna Guillory
as Jane Taylor
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Callum Keith Rennie
as Ben Cutler
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Graham Greene (II)
as N'Kwala
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Tyler Mane
as Jack
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Dustin Milligan
as Corporal Jonathan Kent
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Alex Zahara
as Jon
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Jody Racicot
as Paul
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Michael Eklund
as Larry