The Duel

Name: The Duel
Genre: Drama, Western
Released: June 24, 2016
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 42

2016

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Lionsgate Premiere | Release Date: June 24, 2016 | R

Summary: A Texas Ranger (Liam Hemsworth) investigates a series of murders in a small town led by a charismatic preacher (Woody Harrelson). However, the routine undercover investigation soon turns personal for the ranger who must solve the case before he loses everything to the mysterious town.

Director: Kieran Darcy-Smith

Genre(s): Drama, Western

Rating: R

Runtime: 110 min

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Alex McCown

Jun 23, 2016

Blessed with solid supporting character work and several scenes of genuine good fun, the movie manages to make its nearly two-hour run-time pass by easily enough, but not so much so that the seams on this patchwork quilt don’t still show. Read full review

Tom Keogh

Jun 23, 2016

Despite promising elements of mixed-genre thrills, the film is finally the underwhelming sum of too many plot devices. Read full review

Devan Coggan

Jun 22, 2016

The plot may be fairly predictable, but Harrelson goes all in as the deranged preacher, and he’s a delight to watch, whether he’s wiggling his eyebrow tattoos or prancing about town on horseback, dressed in an all-white suit. Hemsworth, on the other hand, remains monotone. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Odie Henderson

Jun 24, 2016

There’s a lot more nonsense here, all of which starts out intriguingly before overstaying its welcome. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Jun 23, 2016

There are plenty of fisticuffs and shootouts to be found in The Duel, but precious little of interest. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Jun 23, 2016

The story is an intriguing twist on the western genre, but in piling on other subgenres and story elements, including a dangerous and charismatic cult, it dilutes the essential nature of what could have been a potent revenge tale. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Jun 23, 2016

The Duel has a few ideas and a glint of politics but is largely characterized by its perplexing shifts in tone and unpersuasive story turns. Read full review

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Andgui

Jan 6, 2021

It has a very good ambientation, with no innecesary inclussion and a good story, the end si a little bit predictable but it is ok ando exciting.

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smiyamot

Oct 30, 2016

The movie starts out like your typical western, dead bodies washing down the river, a Texas Ranger is assigned to find out why, but then it goes sideways and adds in a dose of supernatural happenings. I have to give it some extra points for original story.

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LeZee

Oct 4, 2016

When revenge's not an agenda, but an opportunity knocks!

Lately I have been watching lots of blacklisted screenplay films. Some of them were really good, but most of them were not. This is one of those, and I'm not convinced. The story wise, it was decent, until the secret was revealed.When revenge's not an agenda, but an opportunity knocks!

Lately I have been watching lots of blacklisted screenplay films. Some of them were really good, but most of them were not. This is one of those, and I'm not convinced. The story wise, it was decent, until the secret was revealed. After that part, it's become completely uninterested. Because that twist was not par with any decent western film. In fact, it was same as what we had seen in those that sets in the modern day themes, but here it was in the second half of the 1800s.

So the story was the bad thing for this, but the actors were good. I liked the Liam Hemsworth. Woody Harrelson was not bad either, but his negative kind of role pushes us away from liking him and so the Alice Braga. It opened well, but did not develop and end well. If you are looking for a good western with the story, this is not for you. You should not try this just for the performances, because I don't think it is worth that much. Definitely, I won't recommend it on that ground, but there's always people for all kinds of films, so I won't surprise if you say it is a better film than what I said.

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