{"id":13708,"date":"2018-10-11T15:29:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T19:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.9deuce.tv\/blogs\/?p=13708"},"modified":"2018-10-11T15:29:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T19:29:31","slug":"mohawk-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.9deuce.tv\/blogs\/mohawk-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohawk (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I admit I was not a fan of Mohawk at first.\u00a0 I have now seen in three times.\u00a0 There are pros and cons to this one.\u00a0 It’s turning into a guilty pleasure though.\u00a0 It has Luke Harper in it dammit!\u00a0 Of course, I had to try to like it.<\/p>\n

The story is somewhere around the War of 1812.\u00a0 This does take place in upstate NY,\u00a0 so that’s home sweet home for me.\u00a0 Oak, Joshua, and Calvin have a unique three-way love.\u00a0 Calvin or someone\u00a0f’d with the Americans camp and they want vengeance.\u00a0 So this group of 7 dudes goes hunting Mohawk.\u00a0 We have Col. Hawkes, Captain Holt, his son Myles, Beal who is a tracker with sweet glasses, Lachlan (Luke Harper) who is the tall badass muscle guy with a bad knee, Yancy who is the pussy of the group and is the translator, and Taylor who exists long enough to be the first one killed.\u00a0 This really is a cat and mouse game where the numbers keep dwindling.\u00a0 I’ll let you watch it to get a feel for it.<\/p>\n

My major gripe was the acting.\u00a0 Early on, the dialogue sounds so bad.\u00a0 Not slightly inaccurate, but noticeably uncomfortably bad.\u00a0 It takes you right out of the film initially.\u00a0 I am guessing there are some historical inaccuracies there because people have complained about it, and that was my initial thoughts too, but I don’t have facts to back up that particular claim.\u00a0 Just the vibe I got.\u00a0 This set to be somewhat historical, but if you just consider it fantasy, you may be able to deal with this better.\u00a0 Some of the acting is good here.\u00a0 I thought Ezra Buzzington was perhaps the best actor as Captain Holt.\u00a0 Luke Harper (Jon Huber is his real name) did a surprisingly good job and I was pleased with how long he made it in the film.\u00a0 Robert Longstreet as Beal and Kaniehtiio Horn as Oak both did well too.\u00a0 The rest were a mixed bag.\u00a0 The other Native Americans acting was jagged at best.\u00a0 The story here isn’t great, but it is okay.\u00a0 You can see where it’s heading an hour in because options are limited by that point.\u00a0 Is the ending silly?\u00a0 Hell yeah!<\/p>\n

I wanted to love this film, and I can watch it now and laugh, but I would tell people to lower their expectations on this one due to dialogue, story, and some of the performances.\u00a0 The blood and gore are really good though.\u00a0 Some of the lines are good, but for the\u00a0wrong reasons.\u00a0 As I said in the beginning, this is a guilty pleasure.\u00a0 What sucks is that the director, Ted Geoghegan, also directed We Are Still here which I thought was brilliant.<\/p>\n

Rating: 5.1 – I would rewatch it again, but it’s not that great.\u00a0 I want to see Luke get more roles.\u00a0 He’s good.<\/p>\n

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