...should stick to music.Saw a few good reviews for this one and assume that they were either part of the cast or watching a different movie.Lame story. Bad acting. Apparently couldn't even be bothered to come up with new names for the characters. Not engaging, not amusing, not up to the standards of your cheesiest spaghetti western. Fan of B movies and this doesn't even hit that standard. Kept waiting for some redeeming feature...nothing showed. Way too many minutes of my life gone forever.

Alright, I love western movies and when I saw who the stagecoach driver was I was pretty optimistic (Kim Coates). However, the writing was poor and the acting lacked realism. I only made it 23 minutes which is after the first major shootout in the movie. Trace Adkins character takes a bullet in the shoulder and he proceeds to stand there and do nothing...they escape the house without anyone following even though they claimed there were 6 deputies outside (you never see them) and then that night Trace pulls the bullet out of his shoulder in about 3 seconds with a knife blade (which comes back to view with no blood on it) at this point I was done.

"Dawn Rider" director Terry Miles has helmed another atmospheric, above-average western "Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story," with county music singer Trace Atkins. Ostensibly based on the life of a real-life outlaw, this 91-minute oater chronicles the life of a stagecoach robber who doesn't shoot anybody during the commission of his crimes. Nevertheless, a hopelessly vile one-eyed lawman, Calhoun (Kim Coates of "Waterworld") rides in hot pursuit of him. Eventually, Calhoun corners Nathaniel Reed (Trace Atkins of "The Virginian") who has settled down with a wife, Laura Lee Reed (Michele Harrison of "Paycheck"), who is pregnant with their son. Actually, Reed is several payments behind on his mortgage. Later in the day, an old accomplice in crime, Frank Bell (Claude Duhamel of "Western Religion") shows up unexpectedly and warns him about Calhoun. A gunfight erupts, but our hero and his old partner escape. Bell tells Reed that Laura Lee shot Calhoun and then she died of a gunshot wound. Reluctantly, Reed resorts to business as usual as a stagecoach outlaw, but he warns Bell to refrain from killing anybody. Bell ignores Reed and keeps on shooting people. Meantime, Calhoun is back on Reed's trail after he catches up with a disgruntled Bell who sells his old partner out. At the same time, Reed and another accomplice Sid (Judd Nelson of "The Breakfast Club") go ahead and rob stagecoaches without shooting anybody. Calhoun confronts Bell in a saloon during a poker game. When the other gambler objects to Calhoun interrupting their game, Calhoun's sadistic, trigger-happy gunslinging partner, Bonnie Mudd (Helena Marie of "Crazy Love"), guns the man down in cold blood. About this time, Calhoun and Bonnie come after Nathaniel and Sid, and Nathaniel takes a bullet in the side, and Sid packs him off on his own horse. Sid stays behind to slow up Calhoun and company. In a reversal of events, another lawman rides into the Matt Williams and Dan Benamor screenplay with a warrant for Calhoun's arrest. He explains that Calhoun has exceeded his authority as a lawman and is killing people without proper authority. Like "The Dawn Rider," Miles stages this sprawling, out-of-doors western in mountainous British Columbia, and the scenery looks pretty rugged. Atkins makes a believable as well as sympathetic outlaw, and Helena Marie steals the movie as a pistol-packing babe who displays no compunctions about killing men in cold blood. Mind you, Kim Coates is brilliant as the sleazy, unsavory lawman. Judd Nelson makes a strong impression as Atkins' sidekick. This western packs a surprise or two and it is an interesting horse opera with genuine looking firearms.

Well as there were no reviews I started to watch this film as I like the genre. I'm generally very tolerant reviewing movies and was prepared to give it a chance. However after 10 minutes I could give no more! The acting is pretty naff and the shooting scenes (at least those I saw) were pretty poorly done. I usually sit through really crap movies just to see if they get better, but there was no way this looked like it was going to improve. It looks more like a cheap TV movie. Give it a go if you must but 10 minutes was all I could watch.