Film Review – Outlaws and Angels

Westerns should be bleak, barren adventures, tracking difficult moral choices and survival situations, but there’s a fine line between staging violence to make a point about threat and staging violence just to enjoy some screen insanity. JT Mollner forgoes subtlety with “Outlaws and Angels,” dismissing good taste to make a down and dirty exploitation picture that’s slicked with bodily fluids and blistered with rage. Aggression comes unnervingly easy to the helmer, who enjoys making a mess of things with this ode to sexual abuse and manipulation. However, while Mollner has brought buckets of blood to the production, he forgot to hire an editor. It doesn’t take long to realize that “Outlaws and Angels” is going to feel as long as the conquering of the west itself, with Mollner incapable of finding rhythm for this intentionally odious movie. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com