Johnson ("Avengement"), throws audiences into the middle of action. The writer and director, former stuntman Jesse V. The bad guys are so ruthless than they can be comfortably killed by the bushel, and there's still an advantage to being the quickest on the draw. They're tough and arrogant, verging on mean ("You talk more than my ex-wife," the hero of this one snarls at a chatty prisoner). The heroes are still square-jawed badasses with A Code of Honor, but they ride in four-wheeled drive vehicles rather than on horseback, and they're mostly trying to keep trespassers off a gigantic piece of fenced-in property, the United States of America. Nolte starred as a Texas Ranger in 1987's " Extreme Prejudice," a film that deserves more credit than it gets for reimagining the Western in modern American terms that continue to be used today, in everything from pulp fiction and video games to TV shows and movies (the " Sicario" films especially). Or maybe it would have starred Nick Nolte, whom star Thomas Jane's mirrored shades, walrus mustache and gravelly character voice seem to be deliberately channeling. "One Ranger" could have been made 40 years ago, and that's a big part of whatever appeal it has.īack in the day, probably in the late 1980s, this action thriller about a legendary Texas Ranger getting tangled up with international bad guys and government agents would have bombed in theaters but developed a cult following on VHS.
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