Yellow Rock

KILLING A RAVEN IS A BAD OMEN
The film opens with a poorly scripted, worse read narrative about the plight of the Native Americans. Max Dietrich (James Russo) an apparently bad guy comes into Yellow Rock to hire Tom Hanner (Michael Biehn) to take him through Black Paw territory so he can locate his missing brother and nephew. His party of men end up with Dr. Sarah Taylor, an interpreter respected by the Black Paw and a member of the tribe (Michael Spears) to make sure they don't pass through the sacred burial grounds which would curse them. Of course they pass through the daylight medieval misty burial grounds and the film takes the anticipated twist.

The acting was over done to the point of being bad. Lenore Andriel, who also wrote and produced this film was perhaps the worse of the lot reminding me of a laughable Angelique Pettyjohn. I understand shooting a film on a budget, but if you are going to use a modern Presidential coin to be a $20 gold piece, don't show a close-up of the coin. C'mon Nick, at...

Yellow Rock-A Review
Solid writing and acting. A very enjoyable [independent] Western, unlike a similar film recently released, "Legend of Hell's Gate". Lenore Andriel did a great job with the writing and producing, especially with it being her first Western ever. She also delivered a pretty solid performance as Dr. Sarah. Michael Biehn and James Russo delivered equally solid performances in their respective roles, and let's not forget Michael Spears! I really only saw the film for Michael and Eddie Spears and Zahn McClarnon (wasn't disappointed, let me assure you!), but I came out of the movie really enjoying it and liking it. the MPAA did rate the film as "R", but in reality, the violence is less than that of "Hell on Wheels" or other modern Westerns. Yes, it is kind of slow in the beginning, but once they move to the wolf sequence, it gets really interesting really quickly. Worth seeing, even as a "B-rated" Western!

Worst movie I've seen in years
I know the actors tried hard but I kept feeling the director must have been stoned. The plot was scattered and confusing. It just didn't draw me into the story at all. I'm glad it was a free redbox rental or I would've felt cheated.

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