Tombstone is one of my favorite movies. I absolutely love it, and you can say whatever you want about Val Kilmer’s career before and after, but he was pure perfection in this movie as Doc Holliday.

With that being said, I’m not generally a fan of westerns. Sure, I liked the Young Guns movies, and 3:10 to Yuma was pretty good (the Russell Crowe/Christian Bale remake. I’ve never seen the original), but overall, I just never really got into them.

I think the reason I never really got into westerns is the same reason I don’t like horror movies: the plots are basically the same. Let’s face it, every horror movie ever made has the exact same plot: someone or something is going around killing stupid people. Sure, the details differ from movie to movie, but the basic premise is always the same.

Granted, westerns aren’t as bad as that, but most of them are similar. Most of them, like Tombstone and Young Guns, are revenge stories. Not that there’s anything wrong with revenge stories, but a little variety would be appreciated.

That’s why, when I found The Last Son while looking through Hulu, I was intrigued when I read this description: Sam Worthington stars as Isaac LeMay, a murderous outlaw who learns he is cursed by a prophecy: one of his children will kill him. To prevent this, he hunts down each of his estranged children including long- lost son Cal (Colson Baker aka musician Machine Gun Kelly). With bounty hunters and Sheriff Solomon (Thomas Jane) on his tail, LeMay must find a way to stop his children and end the curse.

It wasn’t technically about revenge, plus the curse aspect gave it a supernatural twist. I decided to watch the trailer. The trailer made it look pretty good, so I watched the movie. Like so many others before it, the trailer was much better than the movie.

I don’t want to get into too much detail, so I don’t spoil it for anyone who wants to watch it later, but I didn’t like it. The movie took way too long to develop. While there were a few gunfights, there weren’t as many as I thought there would be, as there should have been. Most of the time, all the people acted robotic, with very little emotion. Unless that emotion was anger, of course.

I will give the movie one thing. It did surprise me a little. Halfway through the movie, I thought the movie would end one of two ways. It actually ended up being a combination of the two, which was kinda cool. Not cool enough to save the movie, but still kinda cool.

If you enjoy westerns, maybe you’ll end up liking this movie more than me, but I still would recommend passing on this one.