This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Criminales e Angelis! That might as well have been the name of this film that oddly pays homage to the classic Spaghetti Westerns. Unsavoury characters, ultra violence, twisty plot, offensive scenes it had it all. You couldn't like any of these people. Even the supposed lawmen were unsavoury. One almost expected everyone in the film to be dubbed except for a few main characters. Dubbing might have helped (or subtitles) as it seemed that almost everyone mumbled but you got the drift. A band of outlaws (criminales) rob a bank in some dusty unnamed western town complete with hoods. Innocent people get killed (they are just bystanders after all). They escape but one of them is hit as they leave town. From there on its a rough ride as they wind up holing up with a christian family and everything becomes twisty, and ugly with gore and scenes enough to make you cringe. But the sets are great and the feel of being trapped in a place with a band of outlaws, a screaming christian mother and the very unsavoury minister of a father with their two daughters. To give it even better feel of a being a spaghetti western there is the Clint Eastwood connection. Clint's former live-in Francis Fisher plays a somewhat hysteric christian woman while the daughter of Clint's and Francis's years together Francesca Eastwood is the the Angeli of the title. And what an Angeli she makes. Francis Fisher also played Ruth Dewitt Bukater, Rose's mother in Titanic and Strawberry Alice in Eastwood's Unforgiven.As gore piles upon gore and cringing scenes pile on cringing scenes and the body count rises one is reminded that others can do what Tarantino and Peckinpah have done before. You can't like any these characters but you do admire the way the actors play them making it all seem too real. Just like the old spaghetti westerns.

It's 1887 Cuchillo, New Mexico. Masked men escape after a bank robbery. There's a bounty on them for killing a well connected man. The leader Henry (Chad Michael Murray) ruthlessly kills an elderly couple after being told the news of the bounty. They are pursued by Josiah (Luke Wilson) and his posse. Henry and the remaining two barge in on George Tildon and his family on their homestead.This is drawing inspiration from the harsher exploitation elements with the western genre. It's doing too much hand-held and panning around. I'm not sure Wilson and Murray fit in this more brutal movie. They are too Hollywood with a certain personality. I keep thinking a Tarantino would infuse this with better dialogue and more intense thrills. He would have elevated the tension when they are staying in that cabin. It drags on and on despite the wild revelations. It's trying for a lot of things but it's not fully satisfying. There is value in trying but it keeps missing. I question why they don't kill George right from the start. He's a big guy who seems dangerous in a hand to hand fight. This movie tries hard at times but keeps playing a flat note.

In my view: anyone who talks down on this picture or claims its only "senseless violence," just didn't get it. Truly amazing and original movie. I don't often give out that kind of praise. Rest assured, I detest overkill when it comes to blood & gore in a movie. Im a big believer in good taste. However, I also believe any kind of artistic portrayal is justified, as long as it's warranted by plot and backed by a legitimate statement. I believe that's what's going on in this picture. It's gutsy, and unflinching. It doesn't spare you the uncomfortable details, because it's trying to illustrate a point of view. Sometimes being shocked or being made to feel ill at ease forces us to question our values, examine beliefs, re-think a world view. And you should never hesitate to pressure test your views, that is, if you want to believe what's true. But, Just like pain and discomfort are involved in physical exercise, to strengthen the muscles, many times the only way to expand your mind is to be made to witness unpleasant, uncomfortable things. Then afterward: examine one's own beliefs and question them. That's a big part of "Outlaws & Angeles". I can't remember seeing such a unique, unpredictable, provocative film... maybe ever. Hollywood's not a place known for 2nd chances. In a very clannish, cut throat, unforgiving industry: really takes a lot of balls to make a movie like this one, and true talent to do it so artistically. Believe me, I hate gore and smut and profanity when they're done purely for shock value. Or in place of a real story. But those things can have a place in a film as a valid part of a story, backed by a valid statement. If you didn't like it, I recommend you give it another chance. Maybe you were turned off by something you saw then missed things as a result. Try suspending the inner moral guardian voice and be as open minded as you can. You may pick up on some things not noticed last time. "Outlaws" Blew me away, Believe me, I'm not the type who's easy to impress. It's Firmly in my top 10 of all time or higher. One of a kind Picture!

Saw Like Wilson, Ben Browser and expected at least a decent western. Instead I tried to watch as lines were mumbled, acting was terrible and plot was crap. Sad. Violence by idiots. Clint has a pretty daughter and she can act but this was a poor vehicle for her. I lost interest rapidly. Luke Wilson and Ben Browser must really be hard pressed for work. Read some reviews that gave this a 9-10 ) even comparing it to Pecinpah's work. What an insult. Crap. Pure crap.