Gunslingers, 2025.

Written and Directed by Brian Skiba.

Starring Stephen Dorff, Nicolas Cage, Costas Mandylor, Heather Graham, Scarlet Stallone, Bre Blair, William McNamara, Randall Batinkoff, Tzi Ma, Cooper Barnes, Mitchell Hoog, Elisabetta Fantone, Jeremy Kent Jackson, Mohamed Karim, Laurie Love, Dan O’Brien, Brooklen Wilkes, Ava Monroe Tadross, Forrest Wilder, Forrie J. Smith, Kartuah Chapman, Hunter Bines, Francis Cronin, Matthew Daniel Stevens, Eric Mabius, and Taylor Bines.

SYNOPSIS:

When the most wanted man in America surfaces in a small Kentucky town, his violent history – and a blood-thirsty mob seeking vengeance and a king’s ransom – soon follow. As brothers face off against one another and bullets tear the town to shreds, this lightning-fast gunslinger makes his enemies pay the ultimate price for their greed.

Writer/director Brian Skiba works fast, here cranking out generic action regularly, with his latest, Gunslingers, the second Western of the bunch. It’s faint praise, but this might be his best film, if only because Nicolas Cage refuses to phone it in. That also doesn’t mean he is giving a good performance, but in a town of wanted criminals who have moved on from that life and want to live peacefully, now finding themselves at odds with an enemy looking to cash in on that bounty, the prolific veteran actor injects some personality into an otherwise lifeless slog playing Ben, a Bible thumper with a horse voice (bordering on barely being able to speak) wearing cross-shaped shades.