Everything about this movie is lame. From the lame men who are never ready but should be for blood thirsty animals. To the use of coins from the 1970's to present. How do you use Lincoln Pennies, Roosevelt dimes and Jefferson nickels while gambling during the late 1880s? How hard is it to use fake coins from the era. Unfortunately, I started to watch it and got too far to stop. But it is a tough movie to watch.

Why "6 Guns" only gets 3.9 on the IMDb score sheet is a bit puzzling to me. It seems obvious that what would have probably got twice that 40 years ago doesn't come up to 21st century expectations - and yet those same viewers rush into the video stores and snap up DVDs of all those 40-year-old movies in droves and add them to their collections as though they were rare antiques! (Antiques, yes - rare, no!)6 Guns is actually a pretty typical western movie. The plot is predictable, the scenery, including the old western town, is prototypical. Some idiot reviewer has written (as criticism) that the wood in the jail is modern lumber painted to look old and stuff like that. Why didn't he (or she) simply sit back and enjoy the movie for crying out loud? That same person probably makes notes of all the spelling mistakes he finds on road signs and in restaurant menus rather than enjoying the scenery or the food!Someone else has written that Barry van Dyke (Frank Allison) is the image of his dad, Dick but I found it uncanny that, every time he appeared on screen wearing his hat, all I could think of was the late, great Jack Pallance when he was that age! Sage Mears as Selina Stevens, in her first full length movie role was believably good enough to carry the part off. She wasn't over-confident and really came across as a young mother who had watched her two little boys and husband murdered in front of her before herself being gang-raped and her desire for revenge was totally understandable. Yes, I figured out very early that it would be Selina who would end up getting even with totally evil bad-guy, Lee Horn (ex stuntman, Geoff Mead) and, to be honest, I would have been disappointed if that had not been the case.I wonder how many sons have directed their dads in lead roles, as well as a brother (and themselves) in movies. Pity Shane couldn't have fitted granddad, other brother Wes and sister Taryn in somewhere too. Then it would have been a real family affair!Anyway, I enjoyed 6 Guns for what it was (and, I believe what it was intended to be) - a movie that arouses the viewers' anger and desire to see justice (whatever that might be) done. So I give it 7 and will look forward to and watch any sequel's Shane decides to make (after all, Frank did ride off into the sunset and Selina did offer to help him if he needed help! If that isn't crying out for a sequel, what is?)

Sage Mears is a very attractive actress. One would think she might get better roles. She is really the only one worth mention in this straight- to-video western. With the exception of 3:10 to Yuma, I didn't even know anyone way still making westerns, but here we are.There isn't a lot of great acting here, but how many westerns feature acting giants. It's the action you come for. There isn't a whole lot of that, either.It's a revenge movie. The bad guy (Geoff Meed) kills her husband (Brian Wimmer) and two sons and his gang rapes her. She becomes the town drunk until the bounty hunter (Barry Van Dyke) arrives in town. What happens next is not entirely believable, but it makes for a fairly good story. I can't say as much for the very end. That goes off into fantasy land.

I should have given up on this low-budget Western set in the 1800s when, just over two minutes into it, the main female character, Selina Stevens, portrayed by Sage Mears, read the line (yes, read, like most of her lines), "I can't lift the Crock-Pot all by myself." Surely, the writer (I use the word loosely), Geoff Meed, isn't so ignorant as to not have a clue that the trade name "Crock-Pot" and the electrical appliance it refers to weren't invented until the early 1970s. Then again, his forte is martial arts and stunts, so maybe he has been knocked in the head once too often. If he didn't know, then surely someone else in the cast or crew, perhaps the honeywagon driver, should have. That's where the script belonged—in the honeywagon.Then, about four-and-a-half minutes in, actor Brian Wimmer as the character Will Stevens, said, "I gotta replace all the shuttlers and windows due to the winds that are coming in." No, that's not a typo, that's exactly what he said—shuttlers. Hey, maybe he just flubbed the line and the low budget couldn't stand the strain of re-shooting the scene. On the other hand, maybe Geoff Meed really should give up the stunts and fighting. Permanent brain damage is no laughing matter.Perhaps The Asylum, known for producing "mockbusters," used these lines as a joke, but they weren't nearly as funny as this joke of a movie.Hard to fathom, but yes, I kept watching to the end, mostly out of fascination with how terrible it was…just as one refrains from turning away from a train wreck. But life is too short to have spent the time watching or to further comment on this train wreck. I hope I've saved someone else the waste of time.