Rent One Ranger (2023)

Awful Contemporary Western Thriller - One Ranger review by GI

A thoroughly ridiculous film that from start to finish is riddled with stereotypical characters, poor casting and a really bad script. What you have here is a poor attempt at mixing Coogan's Bluff (1968) with the American cowboy lawman in the big city narrative, with Brannigan (1975), the rough tough American cop clashing of cultures theme with the by the book British cops and the main character channeling Nick Nolte's border cop in Extreme Prejudice (1987). This mix is a thorough mess and actually totally laughable. The worst part is the awful script with nearly every line an absolute stinker. Thomas Jane plays Tyree, a Texas Ranger famous for always getting his man, ending up in London working for British Intelligence in order to nail an Irish terrorist. He basically wanders around with a machine gun and a big stetson!! The why's and wherefores are all irrelevant here but to highlight how bad this is you only have to imagine John Malkovich as the Head of MI6, with a very strange accent that flits between robotic and Russian. There's plenty of violence but none of it has any originality and overall it's a shame money was wasted on this mess.