Shadowheart |  | Director: Dean Alioto
Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Courtney Gains, Rance Howard, Angus MacFadyen, Michael Spears
Studio: ANCHOR BAY
Category: DVD
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Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 8806
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 114 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D16496D
UPC: 013131649697
EAN: 0013131649697
ASIN: B0026IQTO0
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: August 4, 2009
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Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 08/04/2009 Run time: 110 minutes Rating: Pg13
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 It deserves a no star review. February 2, 2010
Jonathan Smith (North Carolina)
This was the worst movie I have seen in a very long time. The story is weak. The actors are flat. The first 5 minutes make you realize you are watching a movie that was not good enough to be "made for TV". I cannot say enough bad things about this film. It is indescribably awful. Put your money towards tickets to the local pre-school play, it will be better.
 He came for revenge...he found redemption January 22, 2010
Melkor (San Diego, CA USA)
"He came for revenge...he found redemption" is the tag-line for this movie. I won't spoil the film, but as far as that tag-line goes...not really. And that is my main problem with this film. It had no idea what it was trying to say. It leads you in the direction of God and redemption, completely ignores it, and pays you off with...well, I can't say without putting spoilers in the review. I'll just say, the ending should have been different, considering the actions and words of the characters. At the same time I was afraid that this would be a movie that over preachy, and it was not.
The plot, briefly, is typical Western fare. A preacher is killed, the son goes off and comes back years later for revenge.
Cinematically, this feels like a Halmark or Disney channel made-for-T.V. movie. Having grown up on the films of Sergio Leone, I have a love of Westerns where you can feel the grit. Where you can smell the stink coming off the actors on the screen. In "Shadowheart", everyone has perfectly shampooed hair and bright clean clothes. Even after a fight, characters have perfectly and artistically applied dirt and blood to their clothes. The most hilarious is the main character's glued on mustache when he returns to town, to let you know he's a "tough guy".
The writing and acting, for the most part, is fairly dreadful. The "bad guys" are the most hilarious of caricatures. Black Bart meets Yosemite Sam. The Navajo are portrayed as both the "noble savage" and as the "magical healers". Two stereotypes for the price of one. The railroad surveyors are hilarious anachronisms.
The only saving grace for this movie is that, in spite of its relatively safe PG-13 approach to filming and story, there is a surprising amount of darkness to the film. This is what actually drew me in to the story and kept me from turning it off after 10 minutes. Still, given all of countless great westerns that exist, I would put this film way down the list of movies in that genre that should be seen. It wasn't entirely dreadful. 2.5 stars, rounding down.
Does for Westerns What Christian Rock Does for Rock December 27, 2009
Jeffrey A. Veyera (Matthews, NC United States)
If you preferred "The Apple Dumpling Gang" to "A Fistful of Dollars", you just might sit through "Shadowheart" in its entirety.
Otherwise, stilted acting, horrible makeup, an awful, treacly, by-the-numbers plot, and a screenplay which must consist of large quantities of capital letters to drive the morality play home will drive you to push Eject long before the final act.
Just. Awful.
 Decent Western December 21, 2009
S. Furr (USA)
James Conners comes home to avenge his fathers death, to track down and take out the ruthless Will Tunney. Will James take the high road of "redemption" or the low road of "revenge"?
Quite simply stated, that sums up "Shadowheart".....a decent western, that drags in places, but ultimately turns out to be decent movie. I would recommend renting before a purchase.
Disc details: 1.78:1 Anamorphic Widescreen
Dolby 5.1, Behind the Scenes featurette, Trailer and other Anchor Bay release trailers
The video presentation is pretty good to be a standard dvd, with deep, rich colors.
A Great Western For Octogenarians October 17, 2009
W. R. Stockstill Jr. (Marietta, GA United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Before I watched this movie, I had high hopes. I saw a review on here saying this was the best western since Tombstone. Not even close. First off, let me explain the title of my review. Now I don't mean by saying that this movie is geared toward octogenarians/80 year olds as an insult. What I mean is this is the type of western made by Roy Rodgers and John Wayne back in the 50s and even 40s. They are pretty dry for the most part and look like they are shot in the hills behind the Hollywood sign. Nothing fancy in those oldies and nothing fancy here. The main building in the movie, a church, looks like a large version of a tool shed. What drew me to this movie was the mention of the Civil War and it had a 2 minute Civil War scene that must have put them back [...] bucks to shoot. Another reason I wanted to see this move is because there haven't been many westerns made recently but surprisingly the ones getting the most publicity have been pretty good. Shadowhart is not.
Westerns started having much more of an edge in the 60s. Bad guys starting being really bad. The main bad guy in Shadowheart is annoying. Heck I wanted to shoot him 20 minutes into the movie just to shut up his bad dialog and mannerisms. The story was very predictable. The acting was mixed, some were a little better then others, but overall what you would expect from a low budget indie or made for TV movies. When I am watching a western and thinking to myself that the women are out acting the men, Houston, you have a problem. Great films are the ones you want to watch over and over. I hope to never see Shadowheart again.
Want to see a great western?
Deadwood: The Complete Series laced with profanity, but very gritty,introduced Americans to Ian McShane
Open Range [Blu-ray] An incredible movie, sweeping vistas shot in Alberta, iconic.Gem in Robert Duval's crown.
Appaloosa [Blu-ray] Slower. Some don't like it. I loved it. Ed Harris financed indie. 10 Gage shotgun costars
3:10 to Yuma [Blu-ray] Great movie,but it lost me at the hokey ending Bale and Crowe work well together
Tomestone has been mentioned, but don't overlook the more historically accurate Wyatt Earp [Blu-ray]
And last but not least the only Oscar winner of the bunch, Unforgiven [Blu-ray]
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