Good to see Walter Hill back in the saddle. This is a tight, unpretentious riff on The Professionals with Chris Waltz a bounty hunter hired to retrieve the wife, Rachel Brosnahan, of a wealthy man who has run off with a black man to south of the border. He's accompanied by another black man, a Buffalo soldier.
This gets off to a strong start but becomes bogged down in the middle has they hang around a town. But picks up towards the end with plenty of gun play - including some by Brosnahan who looks as though she's having fun. So too do Willem Dafoe as a horse thief and Benjamin Bratt as a Mexican baddy.
I missed Ry Cooder and this being shot on film but it's a decent tale.
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