I love looking at Sam Elliott regardless because he is a very hot sexy looking man, Tom Selleck on the other hand never did it for me because of his sheepish grins which were a turn off. This is a western not an episode of Magnum PI Mr Selleck. The movie suffers from a really bad score ,cliches and the 80's A team kind of feel where the bad guys get knocked out in one punch, the bad guys always miss when shooting at the good guys and the good guys who always hit their targets in one shot even on horseback and of course never get hurt or show any signs of bruises even when being thrown on the ground or blown up. In one scene Selleck is riding a horse alongside a train and a stick of dynamite blows up right under his horse and he gets right back up to not only grab the underside of the train car but climbs up the side of the train no worse for wear. The music is this typical disneyesque western schlock no doubt to make it more family friendly. In my opinion, it makes you just want to change the channel. It's also hard to not groan when Katherine Ross is on screen with her real life hubby Sam ELliott, She plays his girlfriend or fiancée I think which also makes it less believable since they give each other these smarmy looks as if to say "after we shoot this scene lets go get drunk and do the nasty".I think Selleck and Elliott are just eye candy for this movie to no doubt let gay guys and straight women have their fantasies. The rest of the cast including old time western stars ben johnson and harry carey jr are simply along for the usual ride of chewing up the scenery. Its too bad they couldn't have made it more gritty and left out the sap. Lamour wrote some good westerns but unfortunately added romantic aspects to them that IMO don't belong. Frontier romance is portrayed so badly in movies with sap thats why i hate it. Good thing they don't make western like this crap anymore. They need to be gritty like unforgiven or josey wales. You can have women but you cant make it sappy. 3/10

I really like Sam Elliott, he was real huge in Gettysburg as General Buford, or he was very very decent as Sheriff Bucky O'Neal in Rough Riders. Here, he is a pale shade of his later self. Tom Selleck is not of a much help, too. What is the main reason? Weak script, and a very strange, almost skewed genre - it borders on a deep drama and then, it almost glides onto a farce, or a comedy. Very light, almost comedy-prone music is not suitable here as well. The film was made but the same fella who did great The Undefeated. Here, a huge disillusion awaits. The wry smile of Selleck tires itself off very soon, and raw character of Elliott is a big drawback, too. The main pair does not hold our attention and leaves rather bored, if not bemused. Do not watch this mish-mash of genres, a waste of time, and really nothing new. Very trite and banal. It is also so badly predictable, you can easily say what's lurking round the corner next frame. Boring, unfunny stuff.

If you loved bad '80s TV shows, you just might like this movie.This movie has a talented cast to be sure. But it's just so cliché-ridden by modern standards that it's hard to take seriously: one punch knocks out the bad guy every time; tossing a stick of dynamite takes out all the bad guys; good guys running on top of a train, continue until movie ends. There is nothing offensive about this movie, so it's fine for children and mixed-audiences. My elderly parents loved it, and it was a fine way to spend 90 minutes with them without wincing at graphic violence or cursing. But if you're looking for a movie with any level of sophistication or nuance, take a pass.

Being a huge fan of Tom Selleck and Sam Elliot in westerns, I have to say that I was underwhelmed with the show. I actually bought the DVD just because it had Tom Selleck, Sam Elliot AND was a Louis L'Amour story. I had not heard of it but figured I couldn't go wrong. While the combination of Selleck, Elliot and L'Amour should have been golden, they turned out to be brass. The production value was very "television" (it was made for TV). It is what it is in that regard. However the action sequences were (IMHO) amateur. The hero knocks out the bad guy with one punch. The bad guys never see the hero's sneaking through the bushes in broad daylight. It just had a typical 80's TV show feel to it. I still felt it was worth the purchase for Selleck and Elliot even if the story and production didn't support them very well.