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I almost passed over this movie because of bad reviews. I found it to be better than expected. I love Westerns but so many of them in recent years are far too graphic for my tastes & I pass them by..This movie is worth the watch.

This movie is a throwback to the B-westerns of yesteryear. Trouble is, those old B-westerns are feats of epic cinema compared to this 2020 version of the American Western. And it's a shame, too. Here is THE vehicle that launched many an outstanding and treasured career - Wayne, Mitchum, Stewart, McQueen, Marvin, etc . . . Only these "leading" actors forgot to do their home work. The acting is "Al-Gore-wooden-like" as each actor struggles to strike their best pose to reveal their best side as they regurgitate their canned lines. There is no emotion or meaning to their words - they're just canned lines to be said, not communicated, just said. The Shea Sizemore screenplay makes sense, but it didn't get pulled together. The score adds nothing to the movie. In fact, at times it would be best if there were no score. I lay the quality of this film at the feet of the one to blame - Director Brent Christy. I apparently have never seen a Brent Christy-directed film - I hope I don't again. This film is all over the place, chasing it's tail. Siskel & Ebert - Beware!

First of all, several times in the movie the term "intel" is used to mean intelligence when this term was first used in 1961 so why would a man in the 1800's be using the term "intel"? How sloppy and stupid can you get? The repeated flashbacks were irritating and some were repeated 3 or more times! The woman undercover agent is left alone with a woman captive and instead of removing her to safety she leaves the hostage with the villlian to possibly be killed later in the story. What were they thinking when the script was written (probably by a millenial with no sense of history)?

John Breaker (Neal McDonough) is a sheriff and war philosopher. He served with a group of men in the Civil War and now five years later, one has formed a band of raiders in Kansas and is going supply lines and anything southern. John and three others are going after him and his gang. John Breaker's son is played by Steven R. McQueen, the grandson of Steve McQueen. They are hunting the Saint played by Casper Van Dien. It is a western that prefers action music to western style. The first three minutes of the film are used to explain the title which I take as meaning "reckoning." Ho-hum. They tried too hard to make a theme of war and redemption which they should have allowed the film to do on its own. Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity.

If you like westerns set in the 1800's you'll like this one. Some blood obviously due to the nature of the movie. Don't believe I heard sonny cuss words which is rare now days. Would watch again...

source: The Warrant

I almost passed over this movie because of bad reviews. I found it to be better than expected. I love Westerns but so many of them in recent years are far too graphic for my tastes & I pass them by..This movie is worth the watch.

I was waking up, and it's an easy movie to follow with a decent script, historical value because of the Civil War timeframe. I recommend this adventure is one you could add to movie night and be ok with.

While the 2020 Western movie "The Warrant" certainly wasn't an outstanding or particularly outstanding movie in the Western genre, then it should be said that it was actually watchable enough for what it turned out to be. It was nice to see the likes of Neal McDonough and Casper Van Dien in this movie, and I must admit that it was also what drew me in to watching this 2020 movie from writer Shea Sizemore and director Brent Christy. Well, also because the movie's synopsis mentioned the American Civil War. The storyline in "The Warrant" was fairly straight forward, albeit somewhat on the generic and mundane side of the equation though. It was a shame, because the storyline sort of kept the movie back and prevented it from being more than it turned out to be. But that being as it might be, then the movie wasn't boring or anything, it was actually good enough and adequately entertaining, it just wasn't something that stood out from many other similar Westerns. Neal McDonough was actually rather nicely cast for the role of John Breaker and he fit the character quite nicely, selling his character in a very believable manner with his performance. And Gregory Cruz, playing Bugle, was also a great addition to the movie, and given his performance I feel it was a shame that he didn't have more on screen time, because he added a lot of flavor to the movie. And while Casper Van Dien wasn't a bad choice for the movie, I just didn't enjoy his performance, walking around with a constant scowl, as if having a case of really bad indigestion. "The Warrant" definitely is watchable, and it had potential to be something greater than what it turned out to be. However, this particular Western just failed to bring anything outstanding to the genre, and as such it ended up being mundane and ultimately a very forgettable movie. My rating of the 2020 movie "The Warrant" lands on a mediocre five out of ten stars.