OK I love westerns, even BAD westerns but c'mon this has got to be the WORST acting in ANY movie ever made. Anyone that said ANYTHING good about this movie was getting paid. I managed five minutes and I wanted that back...and change. This is an insult to anyone that watches movies. If you manage ten minutes without fleeing even the sound of this then you are much more forgiving than I am. You had to be raised by your church going' grandma, against the death penalty. a tree hugger and be in line for sainthood to find anything redeemable in this movie INCLUDING the beginning credits. The entertainment industry must have a lot of money stashed somewhere to invest or distribute this chestnut. Watch a rerun of Rifleman....but leave this stinker where it lays.

I've been in love with westerns all of my life and for me there is simply nothing better than watching a good one but absolutely nothing worst than sitting through a bad one and I'm sorry but this is about as bad as they come.I really did try but I could only last about 15 minutes because every time an 'actor' opened their mouth I cringed. The acting is so atrocious that at first I thought it was a spoof, then on clicking on each of the cast names I noticed that this was the only movie most of them have been in so maybe they were just friends helping out. As for all the positive reviews, if you genuinely liked the film, fine, but comparing it to The Wild Bunch, True Grit or Shane is really just an insult to some of the America's greatest film makers.

I took a chance and streamed this movie because of the "reviews" here. It is just so amateurishly awful - I could only last about 20 minutes. The "cast" looks like maybe they are friends and relatives of whoever was behind this. I've seen better acting in high school plays, seriously.Then it dawns on me... the glowing reviews here must be by those same friends and relatives.Looks like it was obviously someone's labor of love. The sets, makeup and costumes are pretty good, but everything else about this movie is really terrible.

As a former Instructor at the University of Southern California Film School (now living in Norther California's Mother Lode), I was pleasantly surprised at both the technical professionalism, perceptive writing, and first-class acting in James Miller's Livin' by the Gun. It is a western that deals extremely well with the traditional issues of revenge and redemption on the American frontier. It is a western that makes you care about the characters. Bolstered by an excellent film score that sets the tone for the non-stop action that follows. The locations add to the feeling of authenticity. I'm looking forward with great anticipation to this director's next effort, hoping it will not take as long (four years) to bring this new work to the screen.