Kilmer expertly takes you on this enthralling journey to twitching madness and back (but not quite). His performance as Inish Scull is fascinating – eloquent with a side of crazy, a leader of men who’s just a bit ridiculous. This is another fantastic Kilmer Western role, although for a TOTALLY different reason than Tombstone. It’s more sprawling historical fiction than action-adventure, so you really have to be in the mood for dramatic storytelling – and I obviously was not.Ĭomanche Moon would have been significantly better if it had more Val Kilmer. There’s a huge amount of story building and dialogue, with maybe one or two bursts of action in each of the first two episodes and a long, trailing final part. And as with Lonesome Dove, the pacing drags from start to finish. Inish Scull’s wife Inez (Rachel Griffiths) is a privileged piece of work, pressuring all the young men into sex and making everyone generally uncomfortable another character that did pretty much nothing for the story, except attempt awkward and unnecessary comic relief.Woodrow enjoys boning Maggie (Elizabeth Banks), but when she gets pregnant he refuses to acknowledge his responsibility.Long Bill Coleman (Ray McKinnon, also reprising his Dead Man’s Walk role) keeps leaving his pregnant wife Pearl (Melanie Lynskey) alone, which leads to a seriously heartbreaking result.Gus’ paramour Clara (Linda Cardellini) hates being left alone and thinks Gus will never settle down – 100% accurate.The shooting of the Comanche Chiefs, aka the Council House Massacre, was also a very real and horrific event.Īnd in yet another set of stories, the Rangers’ womenfolk have their own problems:
The real Buffalo Hump did organize and lead the Great Raid of 1840 – but as the name suggests, it took place before even the first Lonesome Dove prequel.He gathers several Comanche bands together to raid settlements and ranches from one side of Texas to the other.
Meanwhile, Comanche chief Buffalo Hump (Wes Studi) plans the biggest raid in history, as revenge for a mass shooting of Comanche chiefs and in an attempt to halt the white man’s progress.
Ahumado is a bizarre character whose entire existence makes no f*cking sense to me. Scull then abandons the Rangers to go off on foot with their Kickapoo scout, Famous Shoes (David Midthunder), but gets himself captured by a vaquero named Ahumado (Sal Lopez). Kicking Wolf (Jonathan Joss, reprising his role from Dead Man’s Walk) steals the captain’s pride and joy – his horse Hector. This time, they’re being led around Northwest Texas by eccentric Captain Inish Scull (Val Kilmer). Gus (Steve Zahn) and Woodrow (Karl Urban) are still out Rangering with the boys, trying to ‘contain’ the Comanche. Dead Man’s Walk was circa 1942, when they’d just joined up. Lonesome Dove took place in the 1870s with Woodrow Call and Gus McCrae retired from the Texas Rangers. Keep that in mind.Ĭomanche Moon is another of the Lonesome Dove prequel miniseries. That was my attitude when I rewatched Comanche Moon. Except substitute killing, stealing, and pain for snacking, drinking beer, and wasting hours on social media. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it”? That’s me. You know when Val Kilmer’s Doc Holliday says, “A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. It’s been more than a month since I watched a truly satisfying Western. But I was already a remote worker, and business has been as busy as ever – so my brain continues to be all used up by 5pm. You’d think with all this #stayathome time, I’d be watching Westerns every single goddamn day.
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Released: 2008 Mood: If your partner is more into rom-coms than Westerns and you want to appease them with a lengthy TV movie that’s full of more love stories and sadness than action. Starring: Steve Zahn, Karl Urban, Wes Studi, Adam Beach, Rachel Griffiths, Val Kilmer, Linda Cardellini, Ray McKinnon, Elizabeth Banks Director: Simon Wincer
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