Gunslingers is not the finest hour for any actor involved, though they run the gamut from competency to simply being too modern in look and manner to convince in a period setting that already feels like some sort of western cosplay weekend.

Only Cage’s most diehard cultists will want to go to bat for this performance, and they could easily struggle to accentuate the positive.

A bargain-brand Western that boasts a few middle-aged stars and a collection of clichés that largely predate the talkie.

A cheaply made western that paid for Nicolas Cage to play second fiddle to Stephen Dorff of all people, who is doing something with his voice here that makes me concerned for his health. This film had no thought put into it, so I’m just trading in kind.