A hero "Doc" West is back... if he ever really left. This time, Doc has gotten an idea to host a poker tournament and use the winnings to fund a hospital in Holysands.
In addition to the locals from the first film returning, the poker tournament draws a rogues gallery of players to the town. West navigates his relationships with school teacher Denise and the young boy Silver who he saved in the first film. The feud Mitchell-Baker feud has died down, but that doesn't mean Pa Mitchell is happy with his daughter dating the younger Baker boy. Neither was older Baker brother Jack, played by Linus Huffman in sorta a Farley-tinted performance which steals every scene he's in, but now he's found his own love interest. Paul Sorvino also returns as the sheriff...and true to the movie has to face off with his past, but not too hard.
I compared the light hearted tone of the original movie to Maverick, sans cleverness, and this movie is even more so. You're not going to find highly dramatic gun battles. The poker scenes are hardly tense and overly simplistic. But that isn't what this movie is trying to be. This isn't a movie that needs to be picked apart being it's not trying to be one.
This was a nice, heart warming story where the good guys win the bad guy loses and you feel good after watching it.
In addition to the locals from the first film returning, the poker tournament draws a rogues gallery of players to the town. West navigates his relationships with school teacher Denise and the young boy Silver who he saved in the first film. The feud Mitchell-Baker feud has died down, but that doesn't mean Pa Mitchell is happy with his daughter dating the younger Baker boy. Neither was older Baker brother Jack, played by Linus Huffman in sorta a Farley-tinted performance which steals every scene he's in, but now he's found his own love interest. Paul Sorvino also returns as the sheriff...and true to the movie has to face off with his past, but not too hard.
I compared the light hearted tone of the original movie to Maverick, sans cleverness, and this movie is even more so. You're not going to find highly dramatic gun battles. The poker scenes are hardly tense and overly simplistic. But that isn't what this movie is trying to be. This isn't a movie that needs to be picked apart being it's not trying to be one.
- well, ok, I'll point out that the lone killing
This was a nice, heart warming story where the good guys win the bad guy loses and you feel good after watching it.