Organ Trail

Right, well I had never actually heard about this 2023 Western drama thriller titled "Organ Trail" prior to sitting down and watching it. Initially I found the movie's title interesting, and the movie's cover/poster sort of hinted at something bloody. So of course I opted to give the movie a chance. I managed to sit through one hour of the 112 minutes that the movie ran for, then I gave up out of sheer and utter boredom. The storyline and narrative, as written by Meg Turner, was wholly and fully lacking anything to catch my interest, and it was quite a struggle to sit through the movie for that long. And believe you me when I was say that I am not returning to attempt finish watching the movie, because the characters and storyline just had no appeal to me. The narrative was simply too slow paced, mundane and lacking anything interesting or thrilling. I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie, but the acting performances were actually fair enough, despite of the storyline utterly failing to entertain me. Surely there is an audience out there for a movie such as "Organ Trail", I just happened not to be a part of that particular audience. It should be noted, however, that the production value of the movie was good, and it was essentially that which kept me hanging on for one hour, that and the hope of it becoming a more interesting movie. Ultimately, that just never happened. My rating of "Organ Trail", from director Michael Patrick Jann, lands on a three out of ten stars.

Organ Trail is not reinventing the wheel or anything and also disrespects it's audience. The movie is uninspired and lazy. The writing and cinematography is very generic and leaves you uninterested. I am probably being to generous with my overall score but I have seen way worse. If you are looking for a movie with scares and thin plots then try channeling surfing on cable because I am pretty sure you will be able to find something better then this. This movie is not worth your time and effort. Organ Trail is nice on word play with their title but that is about it. Organ Trail gets 3 lowly stars out of 10.

My expectations were low. I am a huge lover of low budget films. However this was so wonky with its time frame and how historically things would have been done....its a joke. Not semi-realistic in any sense. What creates true fear is knowing it could have realistically happened. During that time period, your weapon meant everything. That means your most prized possession was your rifle. So people are going west with muzzle loaders when lever actions were all the rage as well as metallic cartridge revolver rounds? Obviously this director....nor does anyone else who has work on this know what the hell they are doing or talking about.

Cinematography is great. Organ Trail (2023) captures a gritty and realistic antipastoral west. The first few minutes of the film are great, even the bloody and graphic violence is not off-putting. However, just as one grows to like the characters they are killed off. From this point on, the film stalls out. There are a lot of scenes with travelling and a stationary scene in a western ghost town. However, the language detracts from the film, as there is not a lot of interesting dialogue. Attempts at comedic relief are made about an hour into the film where four-letter profanities are passed off as humorous. As the film equivalent of a walking simulator, the film has great scenery. Its a bit slow paced but contains well received visuals. The film contains false endings and over the top action near the climax that detracts from the film. Most of the characters are flat and un-interesting, leaving little to grasp on to aside from cinematography and visuals. Well shot cinematography makes the film.