[REQ] The Old Way (2023)

[Moonee]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8593824/

Retired gunslinger Colton Briggs faces the consequences of his past when the son of a man he murdered arrives to take his revenge. Briggs must take up arms once more after his wife is killed, and is joined by his young daughter.

FLM Interest: Ryan Kiera Armstrong

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Movie Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWakq9qQ6Ik



Streaming for Free on SBS if you have an Australian IP - https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/movie/t ... 4060227658

[kev]

Thanks Moonee for bringing this to our attention. I must have missed this one when you first posted it.

I saw a clip from the final shoot-out scene on YouTube and that led me to the movie title. I then found it available on YTS:
https://yts.bz/movies/the-old-way-2023

I enjoyed it if pretty much only due to the presence of Ryan Kiera Armstrong as Brooke Briggs. The rest of the movie was rather shiite with a fave actor of mine, Nicolas Cage (I'm sorry; I just love his over-the-top, one-note style of acting: When he's seriously doing his thing) serving up his worst performance since 'Willy's Wonderland'.

RKA, however, was an absolute peach to watch making the entire movie worthwhile. And the whole time I kept thinking; 'she looks real familiar'.. Then I checked her imdb page and realized she played the pyrokinetic Charlie McGee in the 2022 remake of Firestarter. AND I also realized she was the little actress who portrayed Alma Gardner in season 10 of the series American Horror Story. It's a 6 episode story (part of a 'Double Feature' that season) titled 'Thirst'. She had a very meaty role in that series, though the story line dragged a bit when she wasn't onscreen. ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1844624/ep ... &ref_=ttep )

Anyway, check out her imdb page; she's been in a few interesting movies/TV series..

THIS film, while not a favorite of mine, is well worth a watch for her performance..

kev.

[citronleaf]

The rest of the movie was rather shiite with a fave actor of mine, Nicolas Cage (I'm sorry; I just love his over-the-top, one-note style of acting: When he's seriously doing his thing)

By this do you mean that you only like his roles when they are hammy and extreme, and do not care for the roles where he displays some subtlety and emotional depth? And his acting in this movie is a disappointment for what you want from him? If so that is fine of course, but it tells me that *I* might actually like him in this! It is exactly his occasional roles which do not get much attention that sometimes end up being my favorite movies. Thank you for your backhanded-review, I might check this one out. I am downloading from your YTS link right now.

Moonee, thank you, I apologize for ignoring this movie suspiciously the first time round.

[Moonee]

I just love it when kev posts all his reviews

Moonee, thank you, I apologize for ignoring this movie suspiciously the first time round.

It's all good

I've seen this movie, it was fun but I gotta agree it's mostly only worth watching for RKA

[kev]

The rest of the movie was rather shiite with a fave actor of mine, Nicolas Cage (I'm sorry; I just love his over-the-top, one-note style of acting: When he's seriously doing his thing)

By this do you mean that you only like his roles when they are hammy and extreme, and do not care for the roles where he displays some subtlety and emotional depth? And his acting in this movie is a disappointment for what you want from him?

citronleaf, have you seen "The Family Man', 'Matchstick Men' or "Knowing'? Those are movies that I feel are different from NC's normal over-the-top style I enjoy. They tend to show more of what you're talking about (subtlety and emotional depth yada, yada..); I loved them, I thought he was good in them.

I specifically mentioned 'Willy's Wonderland' because it's the exact opposite of 'emotional depth'. Hell, I don't think he even talks in that movie!

I feel with the last few movies I've seen him in, he doesn't seem to be having fun. He's very wooden; like he's got a soulless AI android duplicate filling in for him. (Same problem with 'Vengeance: A Love Story'.)

But please; watch this movie. See if you can see what I'm talking about.. I don't think you'll feel you wasted your time; Ryan Kiera Armstrong is really cute and does a great job with her rule.

kev.

[Moonee]

The Family Man is another movie I've been contemplating on watching that I've never watched.. It's free on SBS here (I can also see it has 2 little children in the film though I'm not too sure how big their screentime is)

[citronleaf]

have you seen "The Family Man', 'Matchstick Men' or "Knowing'?

Afraid I had not even heard of "Knowing" so I will have to check these out, thanks.

The movies at the top of my Nicolas Cage list are "Bringing Out the Dead" and "Pig". Neither of them have any FLM content but in both of them he plays a mentally damaged character, which he does so well.

Just to show I have a very broad definition of "subtlety" I would even include his performance in the John Woo action movie "Face/Off". Yeah, subtle, SURE. He made a decent man pretending to be a psychopath and being pained by it totally believable.

I feel with the last few movies I've seen him in, he doesn't seem to be having fun. He's very wooden; like he's got a soulless AI android duplicate filling in for him.

Supposedly he keeps doing movies just for the money because of debt from poor business decisions. Poor millionaire Hollywood actors, hating their jobs just like everyone else in the world. Waaaaah. I don't bear him ill will so I HOPE it is just that. The alternative explanation is the Bruce Willis one: terrible trash movies because his dementia kept him from making sensible acting choices both in the roles and in the performances. Finally his family dragged him away from the exploitation racket.

I don't think you'll feel you wasted your time; Ryan Kiera Armstrong is really cute and does a great job with her rule.

That is definitely a factor in this movie's favor, and not something I would normally expect from Cage movies. Kinda like that movie with that Chloe Grace girl. I thought his character in that was over-the-top and not-too-subtle, but she was cute.

[Sully23]

Citronleaf, I just saved myself the trouble of writing my review. It wasn't necessary to write an editorial about Nick Coppola; it wasn't interesting, especially since he looks like he did in The Lord of War on the poster. He made many blockbuster movies, some of which I'd recommend, like Drive Angry and that scene where he has sex with his clothes on while fighting—ridiculous but funny. It's better we didn't see him as Superman because he looked ridiculous. I'll just say I liked Con Air and The Rock. I'm not including Face/Off because he was a villain, and I liked John Travolta as a cop. Anyway, about this movie, you don't have a career in Hollywood if you don't make a Western. I like that genre, but unfortunately, there aren't any women in it. At least they should star in one. I'd like to see more Westerns with actresses published in FLM. I'd like them to make a movie about Cynthia Ann Parker; that would be interesting.

[kev]

...It wasn't necessary to write an editorial about Nick Coppola...

And yet you did, anyway...

kev.

[citronleaf]

he looks like he did in The Lord of War on the poster.

??? Really? He is almost 20 years older in Old Way and squinty-eyed like Clint Eastwood. He is facing the camera in both anyway.
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I'm not including Face/Off because he was a villain

Only part of the time, given the identity-swapping premise. I liked John Travolta when he got to play the villain.

you don't have a career in Hollywood if you don't make a Western.

I wondered "But did Tom Cruise do a Western?" Turns out that "Far and Away" is considered a Western, how about that. I never managed to watch it long enough to get out of the Eastern big city to the West, I guess. I started going through Hollywood actors to find an exception to your Western Rule and then I gave up. I might not be interested in watching their Westerns, but I kept thinking of one for the major actors.

Cage also looked ridiculous in his "Big Daddy" superhero costume (from Kick-Ass) because all superhero costumes look ridiculous!

There are plenty of Westerns with women but the macho man is almost always the lead with the woman his love interest, sometimes a gritty frontier woman and sometimes a citified Easterner. "The Quick and the Dead" has a female as the lead, and the woman in Tarantino's "The Hateful Eight" probably ought to be considered the lead.

I'd like them to make a movie about Cynthia Ann Parker; that would be interesting.

Good idea! "News of the World" (Tom Hanks / Helena Zengel) may have drawn inspiration from her story and "The Searchers" (John Wayne / Natalie Wood) very loosely was but a movie that is more biographical should be done. And there just do not seem to be too many Westerns with major young girl characters. The only other one that pops to mind is "True Grit" (John Wayne / Kim Darby) but in it she is too old for FLM.