Everything is in place for this to be a great movie: stars, good historic subject matter, locations/scenery, photography, costumes. However, it misses the mark when it comes to depth and heart. All the way through I enjoyed the familiar faces and the beautiful scenery, so I kept thinking I'd start to care about the characters, or that something would happen to create depth and pull me in, but no. What a waste of actors and subject matter--The Texas Rangers is a great subject, but this movie doesn't do it 'justice'. If you are home from work, sick, or if it's a rainy Sunday and there's nothing better on, this is better than nothing. It may feel like a waste of your time, otherwise, if you value your time at all.

The question isn't why this movie wasn't released for two years it is, "why was it released at all"? I can't remember when I ever saw a movie this bad. In fact I watched it so I would learn how a bad movie is made. What a waste of money. This movie will make it difficult for Western movies to be made. It is a shame that so much money was spent making a bad movie. I guess the money did support jobs. I grew up watching Westerns and I would like to see them come back again. I hope that maybe the movie True Grit will help bring them back. But, certainly, there are going to have to be better script writers. Though not mentioning Texas Rangers by name, talk about a large numbers of guffaws it is unreal how the Rangers temporarily transferred to Mexico to work on catching outlaws, apparently alluding Mexican Army and thieving cattle and horses. I never saw so many people killed at one time how ridiculous it could have been a ten line script.

I never heard of this film before seeing it listed on Showtime. I thought it was a fairly decent film...even when I saw "Dawson" and then "Kelso" come on the screen. Nevermind Usher being there too. I thought..Oh great...this will be so lame. Not so. It could have had less scenes where the good guys were riding hell-bent for leather across the plains...it was shown over and over..I wondered if the same areas were used for each of those scenes? It was some what predictable most of the time too...of course you knew the Mexican girl wasn't dead...the attraction between her and Lincoln was too obvious for her to die so soon. I was surprised that Aston could do serious acting..his stint as Kelso seemed to be the extent of his screen talents in my opinion...sorry..he isn't a big deal to me as far as Hollywood "stars" go. Being married to Demi means na-da..big deal. Anyway...I liked it..enjoyed it...and wished it had been a stronger movie all around. The characters needed more depth..we needed to know when, why and how they came to all be where they were. The director, producer and others cashed in on the two main stars being so hot at the moment when this film was made. With a little more effort it could have been a HUGE film...which I think it should have been. Instead..it ended up on a video store shelve somewhere and of course..offered for free on channels like SHOWTIME. Pity. I would have paid to see it on the big screen if it had been showcased as a blockbuster.

Who do you blame for a movie like this? When you watch a movie you can easily blame an actor for not putting in a good performance, a writer for a flawed script, or a director for not getting the right job out of an actor, or a casting director for a miss-cast. In this movie you can blame all of them, but, the bulk of the blame goes to one certain group: the producers.Alan Greisman and Frank Price must step up and take most of the blame for what is wrong with this film. This was a get-rich quick scheme that got what it deserved. When you set out to make a movie only for the money, and not for the movie, and there is no heart in it from the producers, this is what happens. There must be an undying passion from a film maker for it to show up in the final product on the screen. Here it just didn't happen. No heart in no heart out.Money talks and bullshit walks, and if you look at the following numbers, you can figure out which one this film is: Production Budget: $38,000,000 Total US Gross: $623,374