GUNFIGHT AT RIO BRAVO Review: Alexander Nevsky Shepherds Indie Western Thrills With Palatable Genre Tropes
Gunfight at Rio Bravo is now available in the U.S. from Shout! Studios Actor Alexander Nevsky’s latest role now finds him debuting a persona based on a real-life war figure nary heard of in screen history. For this, we now turn to Gunfight At Rio Bravo, directed by Joe Cornet – who himself is no stranger to Westerns in his current five-title resumè, from a script by Craig Hamann which rejoins Nevsky with past film cohorts Matthias Hues and Olivier Grunner. Central to the story is our protagonist, Ivan Turchin (Nevsky), who arrives in town to set up shop just after a quick dust-up with some would-be robbers. He is sought by Marshall Carter (Grunner) and his partner looking for Sheriff Kelly’s (Cornet) quarters where they can hopefully make a temp pit stop to hold Hellhound gang leader and captive fugitive Ethan Crawley (Hues) whilst en route to get him […]