FORSAKEN (2015) ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Jon Cassar
Kiefer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland, Brian Cox,
Michael Wincott, Demi Moore, Greg Ellis
A remake of "Unforgiven" by way of "Pale Rider", with Kiefer Sutherland in what would be the Clint Eastwood role as a man trying to move on from a violent past he can never escape. It's nice to see the Sutherland boys working together playing father and son. Donald has the more flamboyant role as an inflexibly righteous preacher, but it's Kiefer's haunted stoicism that moves the story along and carries the film. You know it's only a matter of time before he gets out his gun again, and it's going to be hell for somebody when he does. Brian Cox plays the corrupt local kingpin, Michael Wincott's an elegant rival gunman, and Demi Moore plays an old flame, now marred with a young kid. They're all good and so is the movie, but it's Kiefer, lost, forsaken, and never more than a stone's throw from madness, who makes the movie hard to forget.
