Every good film must have a solid foundation which is the story. This film had poor motivation for the main character. He decides to go after a kidnapper of a girl for the sole purpose of receiving a fortune in gold from her father. This is not a likeable main character. He hesitates to take the mission, thinking there might be a situation in which he has to kill the kidnapper because he has sworn off killing. But at the moment in which he faces the bad guy, there's no inner struggle at all. He wounds the bad guy in a shootout and then calmly kills an incapacitated man with ease. When he brings the girl home to her father we find out she is in love with him and wants to marry him but we are given absolutely no clue to this point of her feelings, no character development at all. When she is reunited with her father, there's no emotional reunion, as if she just came home from shopping. Then two associates of the man the main character killed jump him and steal the bounty he received for rescuing the girl, yet there is no explanation for how the thieves could have had the slightest idea he received any bounty. Then there is a sudden flash forward of five years and we discover that the marriage of our main character and the girl is on rocky ground with them cursing at each other.. The main character decides to try to get the stolen gold back from the two men who stole it from him. The thieves are anything but dangerous or daunting, and appear more as comedians and blithering idiots. The climax of the story, the shootout, occurs midway in the film. The ending of this film is ridiculous and not worth describing. What is the point to this? This is a disjointed amalgamation of scenes with no point, no central mission for the main character. Not a good example of screenwriting craft. The producer should have had a better slush pile script reader and not have invested in a poor quality screenplay.
Review of Honor Among Thieves
