Film Review – Dead Man’s Hand

“Dead Man’s Hand” is based on a graphic novel by Kevin and Matthew Minor, and it’s billed as “A Brian Skiba Flick,” which is meant to signal to the audience that this western is going to be anything but traditional. There seems to be some vision to shake up the norm when it comes to cowboy problems in the old west, but the screenplay (by Skiba and Corin Nemec, best known as the star of the T.V. series, “Parker Lewis Can’t Lose”) doesn’t have an extended sense of hellraising, and the production isn’t blessed with a significant budget (18 producers are credited), greatly limiting the genre punch the endeavor wants to deliver. “Dead Man’s Hand” is bizarre, dealing with an underwhelming cast and lukewarm mysticism, and it’s not much of a revenge story, with Skiba unable to get the movie rolling along with all the shootouts and hard stares people want from a western. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com