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The Hi-Lo CountryRating:
Release Date: 01 May, 2001 Retail Price: $19.95 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (15 total) |
The Hi-Lo Country Reviews
well-acted but mediocre story
There was nothing inspiring or heart-warming about this mangled love triangle; the femme fatale was unworthy of the viewer's sympathy and Woody Harrelson was the consummate big-hearted, hot-tempered heavy-drinking loyal-to-the-end type with a big heart; his untimely demise only makes the film seem to spiral downward even more relentlessly.
Authentic dying Old Southwest
What critics can't understand is that this is the way these ranch people were and still are. I was partly brought up on a ranch in West Texas, near the Hi Lo country in New Mexico. Ranch People really do have names like big boy and little boy and often speak in a slow taciturn way like Billy's character. And there are a few wild ones like the Woody Harrelson character. What the film portrays is the genuine hardness of life and human relationships in this lonely stark ranching environment, which was even more so in the time portrayed. I have met all these characters many times in real life and this film touched my heart for a way of life which is still painfully dying. The film is a great slice of American life. I will be interested in seeing what the same critics make of the soon to be released All the Pretty Horses, similar in many ways and also filmed in New Mexico. Critics, how about some respect for new Westerns that do not star Clint Eastwood and lots of violence or showcase sentimental Robert Redford?
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