Perhaps realizing they didn’t have the budget to indulge their western
fantasies in full, filmmakers (and identical twins) Logan and Noah
Miller take a route of peculiarity with “Sweet Vengeance,” making
oddity, not expanse, the focus of the movie. The Millers make muscular
choices in tone and humor here, shaping a curious picture that’s skilled
at depicting sudden acts of violence, burning scenes of intimidation,
and the emptiness of the southwest, creating an impressive but
low-wattage effort that’s agreeably primitive in its design of good vs.
evil — though shadings of such moral assignment are always a little
messy, keeping the material somewhere in the vicinity of sophistication
as it delivers captivating six-gun basics. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com

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