Wesley Snipes played in one of the worst westerns ever

The road to the Wester/horror film “Gallowwalker” in 2013 was strangely cumbersome. Already in 2005, Isn’t it cool news? announced that Chow Yun-Fat was working on a horror western in which he would play a bounty hunt Gunslinger who fought against Zombies. This film was to be called “The Braelsed” and would be supervised by the production companies Sheer Films and Patriot Pictures, with Andrew Goth acting as a co-author and director. AICNS Schaufel was also confirmed in an edition of Fangoria Magazine.

However, Chow must have broken out, since the next update of the 2008 project also in an edition of Fold. “The misery” had become a project with the title “Gallowwalker” since then. The film was still written along and led by Goth, but Wesley Snipes (who is one of our best actors) It was now planned to play the regular Andrew Smith and Wrestler Diamond Dallas Page together with David Decoteau. This country seduced in the mid -2000s how many filmmakers began to discover the splendor of the Namibian landscape (according to a report of The Washington Post). The manufacturers of “Gallowwalker” also undoubtedly received some nice tax incentives to shoot there.

In 2006, how one could remember was a time when snipes went through Many complex legal problems compared to tax evasion. The actor failed to not take up his taxes for several years, while (incorrectly and knowingly) claimed to be freed from certain taxes because it was not based extraterrestrial income. (It should be said that in Orlando, Florida, Snipes.) The indictment was submitted in 2006, Snipes were brought to court in 2008 and sentenced to three years in prison in 2010.

Snipes was released from prison on April 2, 2013, and he ended his prison sentence under house arrest before becoming completely free and clear a few months later on July 19.

It became terrible reviews.

In “Gallowwalkers” Snipes plays aman, an old west of Badass who, like in a “Mortal Kombat” game, tears out the spines of the people. (It appears Snipes likes to play superhuman bathrooms In general.) Aman, as you can see, made a malignant gang that his girlfriend sexually attacked just to kill himself. His mother then sacrificed a demon to revive her dead son. But although her gambit worked, Aman also cursed it. As a result, he returned to the land of the living as a super strong immortal, which was convicted of walking the earth for every eternity.

In addition, the risen Aman soon discovered that everyone he kills brought to life shortly afterwards. This made his revenge murders useless when the gang that attacked his girlfriend suddenly found alive and stepped again. (D’Och!) In addition, the central villain of the film Kansa (Kevin Howarth), a skinless ghul that steals the skin of other people. Patrick Bergin also plays “Gallowwalkers” as Marshall, Model Tanit Phoenix as a virgin in need and Diamond Dallas Page as a character called Skullbucket.

There are only four reviews for “Gallowwalker” Lazy tomatoesAnd three of them are all -round negative. One critic was of the opinion that the film was so bad that it turned out to be unintentional. The premise has a lot of shocky potential, but it takes the right filmmaker to deal with a good lock, and it seems that Goth wasn’t the right way.

The only positive assessment came from Anton Bitel, a critic for Sight & Sound. His review is no longer available online, but a blurb on Rotten tomatoes compares the wild visuals and the energetic presentation of the film with Alejandro Jodorowsky “El Topo”, which is indeed a flattering comparison. At the same time, Bitel made it clear that “Gallowwalker” is flat and silly despite his graphics. Even the only positive criticism of the film is actually a bit negative.

Apart from Bitel’s qualified praise, nobody seems to like “Gallowwalker”. Heck, only a few people even bothered to see it. On the Internet film databaseThe film has an average rating of 36%, based on around 8,500 reviews. Keep in mind that the types of people who enter IMDB must be passionate enough to take the trouble to register. In other words, “Gallowwalker” seems to have inspired a lot of anger. The same applies to rotting tomatoes that only bears 11% on the popcornometer (based on 500 entries).

This should be associated with the restriction that neither IMDB user nor Rotten Tomaten voters must have seen a film before giving him a grade. Of course, it seems silly that someone would vote negatively about a tiny film like “Gallowwalker”.

As already mentioned, “Gallowwalkers” was delayed for several years and only hit the shelves weeks after his prison sentence was fulfilled. There are no records about it, but you can postulate that Lionsgate and the other dealers of the film wanted to avoid potential bad press who refer to the detention of their star and delayed their film accordingly. “Gallowwalkers” was in production when snipes was charged, and it was released when his entire legal rigarole was over.

However, Snipes immediately ran back into his career, in 2014 in “The Expendables 3” and Spike Lees “Chi-Raq” in 2015 in “Dolemite is my name” in 2019 and repressed his role as vampire Hunter Blade in ” “Deadpool & Wolverine”, a film that brought a few yuks over his off-screen core. Snipes survived “Gallowwalker” and it will remain.