What a waste of my time!!!

Disturbing yet enthralling

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Actually it's not as awful as its reputation, well OK it's not very good either, but there is still a uniqueness to the story that warrants interest, and it's hugely enjoyable in that unintentional way.William Shatner stars as "two" brothers of mixed race raised on a Comanche reservation. The one brother is Notah, a peyote taking bad boy who firmly follows the "not very" Comanche way and enjoys killing and raping white folk, the other is Johnny Moon, living as a white pale eyes dude who is a dandy with a pistol and fed up of being mistaken for his brother. So much so Johnny says enough is enough, it's time to have a duel and vanish his brother from the planet. As Johnny goes about his ways in the town of Rio Honcho, where he is building in preparation for "the duel", he has to deal with suspicious folk, bounty hunters, the alluring town vixen Kelly (Rosana Yanni) and the wise old sheriff (Joseph Cotton) who is simultaneously trying to avert a range war and keep an eye on Johnny.What unfolds, in a blurry collage of bad dubbing, bad sound effects, bad musical scoring, bad acting and bad stereotyping, is a Freudian tinged tale of doppleganger complex and perverse Stockholm/Lima Syndrome type kinks. Director (and I use the term lightly) José Briz Méndez more or less just lets "The Shat" have his day in the Madrid sun, giving him the chance to be Clint Eastwood and Henry Brandon for one movie only. There's a nasty edge to the whole thing, which would be insulting were it not so ludicrous, but damn is it funny! And I'm not just talking about Shatner's ill fitting pants.Poisonous paella served at the cult café. 5/10

Really , really bad , but really , really funny !! No-talent is a bad boy who has led his people off the reservation and is raining havoc down on the good white folks . While raping and pillaging his brother Johnny (very little talent) is trying his best to do the right thing , as they are twins everyone mistakes Johnny for No-tah and he gets in trouble because of it . Only the way of Ess tow tow n ya can rectify matters , Yes the way of man and horse . Shatner is truly terrible as an Indian and not much better as a cowboy , but very funny for sure . His gun handling really stinks as does his native American accent , all making for a comical attempt at a western . Joe Cotton tries his best but there's no hope for this one , but it is funny , because its not meant to be .

The temptation to make weak and obvious jokes about this film is simply too strong for me to resist.... but the punchlines I'd come up with couldn't be as much of a joke as this movie itself. A sad Spanish production that somehow managed to wrangle movie icon Joseph Cotten and rising camp icon William Shatner into a hackneyed film about a death feud between twin "Commanche" brothers. Yes, we are supposed to believe that William Shatner of all people is half white man and half native American, and nothing in Shatner's bag of overstated expressions and mannerisms is going to help much in the matter. One of the brothers wants to live in peace as a white man, but he's continually being mistaken for his brother who still lives to rob and kill on the edges of civilization (while continually popping peyote buttons, which might explain the acting). Hilariously, the film is so naive that it expects us to respect the white-bread Shatner's wishes that his brother and the other Commanches would go back to the reservation where they will have some kind of idyllic life according to him.The physical aspects of this production are embarrassing. There's actually some attempt by the director to bring visual nuance to the film, such as an interesting shot of a man disappearing from the frame which is revealed to be a mirror. But even the unfortunate director, Jose Briz Mendez, is undone in his ambition by the rock-bottom nature of everything associated with the film. The actors in the film are generally terrible, and all of the dialog is of course dubbed. There's a lack of scope to everything, as if the director was constantly aware that moving the camera in one direction or another would reveal unfinished parts of the set. In the end of the movie the good Shatner is supposed to be settling down with his generic showgirl girlfriend in this town, but we really can't imagine anyone wanting to live in such an ugly place for more than 5 minutes.The production is so incompetent and lazy that when we start to see the clichéd "vultures overhead" towards the end of the movie, they sound exactly like crows. You see this vulture in the sky and then there's a voice going "Ca Ca Ca!". What's worse is that they didn't even bother to use an actual crow -- it's just some guy making animal noises dubbed onto the soundtrack. These people went to the Bert I. Gordon school of post-dubbing apparently.It's just a horrible, rotten movie.... oh shoot I didn't mention that Joseph Cotten is in it. How Cotten ended up in so many bad movies around this time in his career is really difficult to understand. It actually fills me with sadness to see this great actor, who had been a leading man for Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock, reduced to being the nominal "star presence" in a pathetic and pointless film like this one, which doesn't even have the class that Mario Bava could bring to some of his other European films. There's no excuse for this movie -- if it had been a TV pilot, the show would never have been picked up. To expect people to actually pay money for a ticket to this mess is almost criminal. I was able to survive and even enjoy the experience thanks to 4 pints of Stone IPA.

Hilariously bad western with Shatner playing the dual "good twin/bad twin" roles. This was made in Spain during his Star Trek years (hey, it seemed to have worked for Eastwood before him!). The incomprehensible back story winds up with a gun battle between fractious factions in the town of Rio Hondo (does anyone know what they're fighting about?). It also supports some other characters running around trying to hang innocent people. But the main clash is between the two twins which proceeds to a mano-a-mano finale in which Shatner gets to bare both his chests. I personally found his characteristic staccato delivery perfect for the Comanche twin Notah (speaking sterotypically of course). And for Star Trek fans - only one of him gets the girl! The film also suffers from a jazz influenced musical score, but, hey, that's the least of its problems.