redleader55

Comic book bad guys vs. Good guy who refuses to act until the last act. Super hero with a conflicted background and unknown origins suddenly saves the day. Stopped and restarted the movie three times, unsure if the end would be worth the wait. The cheesy cheap CGI and Stallone's character didn't hold water. The kid's character wasn't believable. He shows boxing skills he never uses against the bad guys. Talks like an adult not a ghetto kid. Gets beat up and barely a mark on him. Lives in a ghetto wearing designer clean clothes. Finally a loooong wait to see Stallone strut his stuff. Not worth the trouble in the end.

Before you begin watching, just forget about the niceties of movie-making like suspension of belief. The movie doesn't try to bring you along to that point. It just smashes you in the face with purposefully over-the-top stunts that defy belief in the first few minutes and gets worse from there. The acting similarly doesn't bother to ask you to believe. The wooden characters generate no sympathy or real interest.

True, many cowboys were black, but this revisionist view overcompensates and swerves widely from any truth about the Old West. The characters bear little resemblance to real black cowboys or lawmen. The (white) soldiers are cowards. A train conductor stops the train for a single horse rider on the tracks. As a result, the movie fails to suspend disbelief and never earns the viewer's interest or respect.