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The Old Way Reviews
lol this is dire. wooden and ridiculous at the same time....and half sketched. that'll do for a nicolas cage movie. lol
Your typical cowboy revenge story that plays out the theme quite well. Unfortunately, Ryan Armstrong's absolutely sensational performance doesn't make up for the fact that the film simply repeats the same plot as every other cowboy revenge story that's been done.
The acting is so stale and the writing is even worse. Slow, boring, predictable and badly executed. Trying to be Unforgiven, but not even close. Don't waste your time.
Seeing all the negative reviews on here I am little disappointed. I just finished watching it for the second time in a year and enjoyed it both times. It is a good traditional western. Good story, hard tough guy image, has a daughter with the same attitude seeking revenge on a group that violated their family. Well worth the watch. I'm not sure those who hated it expect in a modern day western.
Really not that good, but I'm giving it a half-hearted recommendation because I really like Westerns. If you're not a fan of the genre don't bother.
Great setup but the acting from Nicolas Cage was subpar and the main antagonist was not as entertaining as his henchmen, his daughter and the lead lawman was the best things besides the henchmen, if this movie was an hour longer and gave more backstory it would be a solid 5.
Here's how much I love Nick Cage...I watched The Old Way. This movie, its Director, the Writer, the Cinematographer, all of them should be rounded up and branded BAD, then fed to the hogs. But despite that, Nicolas Cage is wonderful, and the other cast members including Cearsy from Justified, while underused and struggling with horrible dialogue and just horrid Direction, do a passable job. It is honestly worth seeing just as long as you understand that it sucks. Its bad, the ideas are bad, it is plumb out of ideas and its just fun to watch a western. While I do not imbibe, my advice? Get some wacky weed and blast off before consuming this one.
A low-budget, paint-by-numbers, cliche revenge western. The veteran actors experience is clearly what keeps it afloat and mildly engaging. The kid is okay, not saddled with too much dialogue or carrying the entire film and didn’t come across as smarter and wiser than every adult.
Noah LeGros as the antagonist is like watching the face of a mannequin overdosed on Botox regurgitating lines in a manner that would gag a maggot. This movie otherwise reminds me of a tough, rugged old school western with a likeable protagonist hellbent on a revenge speckled with creative written colloquialisms and touch of old West existential brutality. I thought this a well done character portrayed by Nick Cage.
The name "The Old Way" fits well with this film. It is quite slow but it is good acting. The scenario is quite simple but good enough for a Western. You may just relax and view how the story is going on. Note, it is not just an action movie in the Old West entourage as it seems many reviewers expected it to be. And it is not a thriller. It is the Western in the old way.
There were elements of this movie that straight up bored me. And like most movies, these elements are necessary to tell the story of the characters. That said, those elements are few and far between and pass by relatively quickly. This movie is pretty good. I recommend watching it. You can tell the budget was a bit lower than most Nic Cage movies, but the list of actors is still impressive. This movie is a kind of western version of Leon: The Professional. What I really give this movie props for is the dad and daughter interactions that reflect what it's like to be autistic in this world. Some will say he's a sociopath or psychopath; it is clear that he and his daughter are more autistic. Great pains are brought up in the beginning to demonstrate this, and they do so very well. To the point, that we find out he and she are the same and he understands and tells her how to act in the presence of others. This is something very common with we autistics and I believe they did it very well and even with a sense of humor. While the western story is a case of fridging, as most revenge movies are, I don't feel like that detracts from the movie's charm. The dialog and cinematography are something to be desired, but on par for a lower budget movie.
This movie was all right. Nick Cage was good. The critics were too harsh.
Finally a decent vengeance movie
I thought it was a poor film predictable, slow and poorly acted. Not one I would recommend to anyone!
In a lot of ways, it was typical cookie cutter western. There was a difference though, father and daughter both having "emotional numbness". It's an interesting facet of the story, two people with a strange relationship with emotions and the struggle to be normal.
It started promising, until I heard a law man say this: do you believe that anything happens without the will of God? Stating that nothing happens without the will of God. This is a flat out lie. What it says is this: nothing happens without God, not: without the will of God. Because there is a lot that happens without the will of God. For example original sin, was not in accordance of the will of God. Or does anyone believe that a murder is the will of God, when it clearly says: thou shalt not murder. The slander with which this movie starts is enough reason for me to give the movie the rating of half a star, because it is enough reason for me not to watch it, I consider it an attack to true Christianity.
This is as boring, dull and generic as a movie can possibly come. Nothing is redeemable about this. Everybody is entitled to have different tastes. But not in this case. You aren't a person to be trusted about ANYTHING if you found this movie agreeable in any way.
Poor acting, lazy writing, and a rushed plot. But most notably and what I found most disappointing is how unoriginal it is. There are many westerns with the same plot as this film, but with added originality. That's what makes westerns great. It's like someone wrote this in 5 minutes.
AMAZING WRITING. AMAZING ACTING