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The Company of Thieves
USA 2025
produced by Randy Kulina, Andrew Young (executive) for En Trance Productions
directed by Viduran Roopan
starring Tony Noto, Naomi Helen Weissberg, Hunter C. Smith, Ryan Bush, Curt Lambert, Nick Apostolides, Kirin Stone, Adam Means, Maddex Means, Seth Abeita, Taloa Abeita, Kelly Washington, Zach Fleischman, Warren Yeager, Colton Kowalsky, Stephen Kennedy, Peter Menyhart, Thomas Troutman, Donavyn Olson, Troy Coe
written by Viduran Roopan, music by Andy Rinaldi
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Somewhere in the West, the 1880s: A thief (Tony Noto) makes a bold and
successful attempt to rob a bank belonging to a cartel of the richest of
the area, which is why they're quick to send a Marshal (Hunter C. Smith)
to take care of the situation and take the case out of the hands of the
rather incompetent Sheriff (Ryan Rush). And this Marshal is quick to hire
native American tracker Washoe (Naomi Helen Weissberg) to hunt the thief
down and bring him back, preferably alive and with the loot of course.
Washoe has little difficulties to track the thief down as he hasn't really
planned his getaway all that well, and would have probably died in the
wild if it wasn't for her. And while on the way back to civilisation and
ultimately the law, the two get a chance to know one another, and start to
even like one another. And when they're attacked by a couple of fur
trappers (Nich Apostolides, Kirin Stone) who try to rape and then kill
Washoe, he actually saves her life even if he could have easily gotten
away from her, probably with the loot even. After that, he offers to split
the loot with her if she lets him off scot free, and she goes for it -
which might be totally against her character, but she sees something good
in the thief. Thing is, despite a mutual fondness of one another, the two
still have their own agenda, and there's still the Marshal, and he might
not have the most ulterior of motives either ... Ok, this
western has been shot on a modest budget, but it really gets everything
right: Basically this is neither a post.-modern nor revisionist nor merely
nostalgic take on the genre, but a story- and character-driven film that
just happens to be set in the old West, while the moral ambiguity that it
shows at all times is very commendable and makes it very relevant in this
- abd any - day and age. And a directorial effort that makes great use of
the film's mostly outdoors locationa, and a strong cast of course help
make this a pretty cool genre pic, only helped by a very cool musical
score that actually harks back to the films of old at times.
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