Gone Are the Days

Lance Hendrikson gives an excellent performance as a terminally ill old outlaw at the end of his life. This is a gritty, existential western about redemption. Tom Berenger is also quite excellent as the town's sheriff. Danny Trejo may have got top billing, but he is barely in this, which is understandable if you look at his filmography, he acts in 20 movies a year. Anyways, this will disappoint some viewers as this is not a shoot em' up western and Hendrikson plays up his flaws and makes his character very believable. Lance Hendrikson and Tom Berenger are truly fantastic here and are some of the more underrated actors in Hollywood that deserve more acclaim. Gone Are The Days is an interesting movie and atypical western that is well worth checking out.

This movie is a perfect example of why plot and plot development is king when creating a film. The casting and strange dialog elements that are drawbacks in this film are easily overlooked because of how great the plot is. Some of the accents and lines simply don't fit and do not feel like they belong. However the story shines through and truly comes to a great resolution. No academy award level film but definitely a decent movie to watch if you're looking for a easily digestible "western"

01/09/2019 20 minutes in watching this old drunk (Lance in his dirty long johns) cough & hack, break things, try to chop a tree with axe head held sideways, drink more booze, cough cough, hack hack. Wonder if there's a movie in this thing? Saw Danny Trego in the trailer - that's really bad news - a bad indicator of - he plays the same part in every movie that he's in (I'm an ugly bad guy). He gets old after watching him do his stick after 50 - 100 or more movies? ..... and he's far from a pretty boy! So far? ... a really sad movie. Well I finished this dog, it stayed about the same all the way through meaning??? "It SUCKED" Tom Berenger plays the sheriff - Unrecognizable

It aggravates me to see films as this one with high expectations, only to shake my head in disappointment. Dialogue is way too slow, and I really wanted to like it. Where is the plot, and where it's going?! Those with filled pockets often think they have a winner, but experienced talent can't pull off what does not exist.

It's a shame for Lance Henriksen, Tom Berenger, and Danny Trejo, to be trapped in a movie that lacks interest, but here they are in "Gone Are The Days". This film qualifies as a colossal mess that is not only sleep inducing, but randomly puddles around like a doodle bug. Henriksen vacillates between blurred reality and confusing hallucinations, leaving the bewildered viewer bored and disinterested as to what he is seeing. In the end, there is no big payoff because you are trying to put together a puzzle with plenty of missing pieces. For a Western, there is no action, but just a slow agonizing terminal cough for 100 minutes. - MERK

After trying to stay awake viewing this, seems that anyone can make a western movie. Maybe the original script was ok, but conveying into a film did not deliver at all. Anyone who liked it were most likely friends of the producer/director or were getting high on legal marijuana during filming. Nice try, but don't quit your day job along the film finding its place on Rotten Tomatoes.

This is not a typical western. He's an old dying man, so he's not capable of the shoot 'em up adventure most movies depict even of their oldest characters. But I like that! It is realistic. I see a real person when I look at Taylon.. So much depth to his character. In this one.. You don't get all the answers you're looking for, but you never really do in life, do you? I like that too because the story has a lot of depth and leaves you with a lot to think about. This is like a piece of real life. Refreshing to see such realistic storytelling..

Not just a great Western - this is a great movie. I was shocked at IMDB low rating of 4.8. I guess they were expecting High Noon? Yet Casting, Acting, Direction ... it's a damn good job all the way around. There's a hint that the movie is loosely based upon Dante's Inferno. I think that's worth knowing going in because it gives to some insight into certain things that happen. It really adds something. The yarn is good - the Acting superb. I'll be watching it again sooner than later - and I believe it was worthy of some Nominations.