Missionary Man starts as a mysterious man (writer & director Dolph Lundgren) rides into town on a motorbike, he heads straight for the cemetery where his old friend JJ is being buried after drowning in a supposed accident. On his way there the man saves a local native Indian man Billy (Jonny Cruz) from some thugs, the man realises that the town is corrupt & local businessman John Reno (Matthew Tompkins) runs it by beating up or killing anyone who stands in his way. Between stealing & selling drugs Reno has a big property deal in development, Reno wants to build a casino on native American land but the local tribe objects to the plans & this may have been why JJ was murdered. The man decides to stay in town & together with his bible & shotgun dishes out some justice...
Starring, written & directed by Dolph Ludgren this apparently had the working title Black Chrome & to me while watching it last night I was reminded strongly of the Clint Eastwood western Pale Rider (1985), in fact Missionary Man is a remake & modern updating of Pale Rider all but in name. The two films share virtually identical plots as greedy businessmen terrorise a local community until a mysterious stranger rides into town with religious tendencies & a knack for beating bad guy's up before things get out of hand & some serious firepower is sent into the town to kill the stranger as it becomes a game of Cat and Mouse as the stranger picks those sent to kill him off one-by-one. The plots, themes & character's are almost identical to be honest, the main thing that separates the two films is that Pale Rider is a classic while Missionary Man is crap. For a start the part played by Lundgren is far too mysterious, we literally never learn anything about him to make us either like or care for him. We never learn of his relationship to JJ, where he came from, what he did for a living or the connection he had with Jarfe. The other character's are poor with typical bad guy's & innocent persecuted native Americans who try to defend their land & ways against evil white men. Yawn. At 90 odd minutes not that much happens, it's throughly predictable as we know Lundgren will beat the bad guy's at the end in a showdown & make the town safe once more. The action scenes are dull & forgettable too.
Missionary Man looks a mess, the IMDb says there was mistakes made with producing the master or something & the colours were messed up & it show's. Nothing has any sort of colour, in fact sometimes the film looks black and white with a lot of detail missing from the picture & everything seems covered in dark shadows all the time, even during the day. This can look stylish on occasion but usually it just looks dull & repetitive. There's not much action here, a boat is blown up, there are a few fight scenes & a few shoot-outs but nothing else. Better known as an action film star Lundgren has turned his hand to directing lately & I only hope his other films are better than Missionary Man, they can't be any worse surely?
Filmed in Texas I doubt this had much of a budget, it looks cheap & with a distinct lack of action it's tough to sit through. The acting isn't up to much, Dolph just sort of lumbers around & tries to look cool.
Missionary Man is a slow moving action remake of Pale Rider that didn't impress me with lacklustre action scenes & a plot that goes virtually unexplained. This is the sort of thing I'd expect Steven Seagal to have made to be honest & that is not a compliment.
Starring, written & directed by Dolph Ludgren this apparently had the working title Black Chrome & to me while watching it last night I was reminded strongly of the Clint Eastwood western Pale Rider (1985), in fact Missionary Man is a remake & modern updating of Pale Rider all but in name. The two films share virtually identical plots as greedy businessmen terrorise a local community until a mysterious stranger rides into town with religious tendencies & a knack for beating bad guy's up before things get out of hand & some serious firepower is sent into the town to kill the stranger as it becomes a game of Cat and Mouse as the stranger picks those sent to kill him off one-by-one. The plots, themes & character's are almost identical to be honest, the main thing that separates the two films is that Pale Rider is a classic while Missionary Man is crap. For a start the part played by Lundgren is far too mysterious, we literally never learn anything about him to make us either like or care for him. We never learn of his relationship to JJ, where he came from, what he did for a living or the connection he had with Jarfe. The other character's are poor with typical bad guy's & innocent persecuted native Americans who try to defend their land & ways against evil white men. Yawn. At 90 odd minutes not that much happens, it's throughly predictable as we know Lundgren will beat the bad guy's at the end in a showdown & make the town safe once more. The action scenes are dull & forgettable too.
Missionary Man looks a mess, the IMDb says there was mistakes made with producing the master or something & the colours were messed up & it show's. Nothing has any sort of colour, in fact sometimes the film looks black and white with a lot of detail missing from the picture & everything seems covered in dark shadows all the time, even during the day. This can look stylish on occasion but usually it just looks dull & repetitive. There's not much action here, a boat is blown up, there are a few fight scenes & a few shoot-outs but nothing else. Better known as an action film star Lundgren has turned his hand to directing lately & I only hope his other films are better than Missionary Man, they can't be any worse surely?
Filmed in Texas I doubt this had much of a budget, it looks cheap & with a distinct lack of action it's tough to sit through. The acting isn't up to much, Dolph just sort of lumbers around & tries to look cool.
Missionary Man is a slow moving action remake of Pale Rider that didn't impress me with lacklustre action scenes & a plot that goes virtually unexplained. This is the sort of thing I'd expect Steven Seagal to have made to be honest & that is not a compliment.