Gunless
Gunless is the latest big screen outing for Canada’s Paul Gross but unlike last years Passchendaele this one is far more palatable and the gorgeous typography of Osoyoos can rival that of any American duster ever made. Gross plays Sean 'The Montana Kid' Rafferty, a US frontier gunslinger who has just narrowly escaped a lynching only to stumble into an even worse fate, ending up in the Canadian hamlet of Barclay’s Brush where few carry side arms and many spend time philosophically discussing Aristotle. Montana picks a fight a la the code of the west with the towns gentle giant blacksmith but can’t get satisfaction until the only other pistol in town is mended – which might be a problem since that requires the expertise of a smithy. To even acquire the broken weapon he has to make a deal with Jane (Sienna Guillory) a local, currently single lady who needs help assembling a windmill. This project turns out to be a well spring for fondness of the locals by Montana yet he remains determined to continue with the gunfight even as bounty hunter Ben Cutler (Callum Keith Rennie) closes in. Yes of course there are crimson tuniced NW Mounted Police who save the day, sort of. With partial funding from Astral Media Gunless does feature some comedy sharp shooting that’s mostly a running gag on Canadian American differences which is subtly set up and not forced.