Directed by: Richard Gray
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Samuel L. Jackson, Brandon Lessard, Veronica Ferres, Q'orianka Kilcher, Tim Daly
Reviewing The Unholy Trinity presents a challenge for me. I saw it back in June before the end of its brief theatrical run and I haven't gotten around to reviewing it until now. The details are fuzzy, but I still recall the movie as a workmanlike, traditional western which wasn't made to last in people's memories until awards season. It is only August and I'm sure it was mostly forgotten already even by those who starred in it.
This isn't to denigrate the people involved in the movie. It's a throwback to the age when westerns were prolific and escapist entertainment. There is no deep messaging in The Unholy Trinity, just shootouts and heroes triumphing over villains. The movie begins with a hanging. I assure I'll have to look up some of the names of the participants in The Unholy Trinity. The man being hanged is Henry Broadway Sr. (Daly) who tells his son Henry Jr. (Lessard) before he's executed and tells him the sheriff of a small Montana town is responsible for framing him and that there's gold in there hills! Henry finds the sheriff, an Irishman named Gabriel Dove (Brosnan), and Henry draws a gun on him. Gabriel, with plenty of aplomb, informs Henry that the sheriff he's looking for is dead and agrees to help him in his quest to find who framed his father...if he was framed at all.
Henry learns his father wasn't the swell guy he thought he was and his former partner St. Christopher (Jackson) promises Henry Jr. that he will split the gold with him once it's found. Jackson brings his usual bombast to the role and seems to having so much fun that we wonder if he was on the wrong movie set. Brosnan is a sturdy hero while Lessard's Henry Jr. is someone we don't find ourselves caring about much. I recall the shootout in the end where St. Christopher meets his demise and that will pretty much end my review.
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