The Last Manhunt (2022)

Based on true events in the early 1900s Wild West, Willie Boy falls in love with Carlota from the Chemehuevi tribe despite being forbidden to be together. A fatal incident forces the young couple to flee the only place they know as home.

They did find a good look-alike! It's a true story, and you get to see a photo of the real Willie Boy at the end, so that's cool.

Other than that? This was not all that I hoped it would be.

Momoa was there for just a moment - going by the cover I thought he'd play a central role. But he certainly livens up the movie when he is there, even if it's just for a short while to play a dead guy.

Otherwise this is just a sad movie, with sad music all the way, that takes it slow, yet details the stories of main characters you barely get to know.

The filming is good, and the locations are beautiful, but I can't imagine this being an authentic depiction of the times as they were at all, and the last stand's both real and anti-climatic.

It feels like often when they make movies like this now they slow things down unnaturally in an effort to make them as slow as they assume the old times were, when in reality I don't imagine it was really that slow at all.

I imagine it might've been slow in a different way.

People maybe didn't stress so much with certain tasks, but surely they still had energy. Surely they still chased each other a bit, or played games, or otherwise activated themselves.

They might've lounged around more. They might've observed a bit.

I'm sure they didn't always talk slow or interact slow or ride slow. They still had things that needed to be done. Survival merited speed, if anything.

The slow were the weak; the slow were left behind.

I think we forget this with not just the hustle and bustle of the modern world but with the complexities thereof, and our will to go back to simpler times. But simpler times weren't inherently slower - they were just different.
If you watch Western movies made closer to the actual time they depict here you'll see it's livelier than we seem to remember.

But the sights sure are beautiful. And the first scene was nice and romantic. I don't mean to get caught up on the sloweness only. It wasn't all bad, just mainly not my type of movie.

No satisfying end. No satisfying journey there, either.

 rated 3/5: not bad