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Dead Man's Bounty

2006 · 1h 34m · R Action, Thriller, Western

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Overview

A mysterious loner rides into a small town carrying the body of a sought-after outlaw. But after he gambles his bounty away in a card game with the sheriff, he must devise a scheme to reclaim the dead man.

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38%
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Rotten

Summer Love is fraught with feverish moods, bold imagination and a devilishly complicated exploration of the genre's iconography. It is also maddeningly paced, often like watching paint dry, albeit paint that's the garish tones of buckets of blood.

Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune
Rotten

Summer Love feels more like a haphazard assembly of loose-knit components, jumbled together with obvious affinity for all varieties of a distinctly American genre.

Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times
Rotten

By eschewing any attempt at storytelling or character development, a film with all of the Western's fecund imagery and putrid fumes still ends up feeling as flat and distant as a gallery wall.

Sam Sweet, L.A. Weekly
Fresh

This pierogi western disassembles the genre mechanics of the gunslinger movie and makes a Dada collage of its gears and springs.

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh

Summer Love has been called the first Polish western and the first Polish spaghetti western, though the truer description might be the first deconstructed art western.

Manohla Dargis, New York Times

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