Very disappointing
Added 3/18/2010
I didn't find anything likable or entertaining about this movie. The characters were shallow, the story was ABCDE, and the end uses a silly deux-ex-machina. Much of what happens occurs for no good reason. We're never given the slightest reason to believe that anything that happens is credible. I came to this movie as a fan of the writer (from Carnivale), but was very disappointed that it had absolutely none of the subtlety, depth or interest of his work on Carnivale.
Reading the other positive reviews makes me think it's possible my high expectations led to my disappointment, but I don't think so. This was just too simple, silly and loose for me.
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Great Western Action
Added 4/19/2009
Blind Justice
The Blind gunman Canaan shows justice isn't so blind. It's one of those classic style movies that you can watch over and over - the final church show down is excellent - bad guys get theirs in the end! Action, humor, drama, shoot 'em ups are all there. Great casting, one of Assante's intriguing characters, Adam Baldwin suits his part well, Davi is the perfect outlaw thug, although Elizabeth Shue could have put more depth to her role.
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Unusual, entertaining and brilliant!
Added 12/23/2007
Buy this for your western collection. An unusual piece, brilliantly acted. I highly recommend this.
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blind justice
Added 11/11/2006
I have had this title on LD for years, but when it was available on DVD, decided to get it. It is unique in the content and I did like the soundtrack, it was unusual. There'I've Said a lot without giving too much away. Regards' Dewarren.
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There are no reinforcements!
Added 10/3/2004
Borrowing freely from westerns traditional and Italian, as well as from the Japanese Zatoichi series (blind swordfighter/masseur), BLIND JUSTICE works much better, and is a lot more enjoyable, than a mere plot description would indicate.
Armand Assante plays Canaan, a man blinded in Civil War. We see him first dressed in a black duster and wearing thick smoked glasses, walking across the desert with an infant bundled in his arms. Three Mexican banditos approach, whooping and hollering and firing their guns in the air. Canaan is dust, and if he manages to get out of this scrape he crawls into myth.
Although we're led to believe that Canaan retains some sight, his condition seems to have enhanced his other senses to a remarkable degree. Enough so that he's able to hear a scorpion walking across a hitching post from twenty feet and shoot it without touching the hand it was about to crawl onto.
The plot demands all of his super acute faculties. Canaan finds himself in a town under siege. A decimated U.S. Calvary unit is holed up in the local church, sitting on a wagon full of silver and threatened by the dreaded bandit king Alacran (Robert Davi) and his merciless minions. Oh, yeah, and there's that nurse Caroline (Elizabeth Shue) that he's got to kind of fall for, too.
Assante is a great actor, and makes his incredible character believable. The action is well choreographed and fast paced, save for a few flashblacks strategically thrown in to fill in Canaan's back story. I'm not sure we need to know how or why Canaan was blinded, but we find out anyway.
BLIND JUSTICE is compelling and an ingenious western.
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Very disappointing
Added 3/18/2010
I didn't find anything likable or entertaining about this movie. The characters were shallow, the story was ABCDE, and the end uses a silly deux-ex-machina. Much of what happens occurs for no good reason. We're never given the slightest reason to believe that anything that happens is credible. I came to this movie as a fan of the writer (from Carnivale), but was very disappointed that it had absolutely none of the subtlety, depth or interest of his work on Carnivale.
Reading the other positive reviews makes me think it's possible my high expectations led to my disappointment, but I don't think so. This was just too simple, silly and loose for me.
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Great Western Action
Added 4/19/2009
Blind Justice
The Blind gunman Canaan shows justice isn't so blind. It's one of those classic style movies that you can watch over and over - the final church show down is excellent - bad guys get theirs in the end! Action, humor, drama, shoot 'em ups are all there. Great casting, one of Assante's intriguing characters, Adam Baldwin suits his part well, Davi is the perfect outlaw thug, although Elizabeth Shue could have put more depth to her role.
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Unusual, entertaining and brilliant!
Added 12/23/2007
Buy this for your western collection. An unusual piece, brilliantly acted. I highly recommend this.
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