Stumbling upon the 2023 Western movie "The Old Way" by random chance here in 2023 and seeing that the movie had Nicolas Cage in the leading role, I have to say that I opted to sit down and watch it.
Usually I am not overly keen on Western, lest it be the good old classics with Clint Eastwood or John Wayne. But every now and again when I stumble upon a Western that seems to have potential to be entertaining, then I will sit down and watch it. And thus it seemed with "The Old Way", from writer Carl W. Lucas and director Brett Donowho.
The storyline in "The Old Way", was actually good. It was a pretty straight forward script and storyline, that had that classic Western feel to it. So writer Carl W. Lucas sure managed to pen down something good and entertaining for director Brett Donowho to bring to the screen.
"The Old Way" does have a good cast that include the likes of Nicolas Cage, Shiloh Fernandez, Clint Howard, Abraham Benrubi, Craig Branham, Boyd McCallister, Noah Le Gros, Corby Griesenbeck, and others. I will say that the cast ensemble in the movie definitely put on good performances and carried the movie quite well.
Something that definitely added to the overall of the movie was the atmosphere. They managed to make "The Old Way" look and feel like a proper Western movie, and I liked that.
My rating of "The Old Way" lands on a six out of ten stars. It is a movie well-worth watching, especially if you enjoy Westerns of the old classic formula.
