Texas Rangers (film)

Infobox Film
name = Texas Rangers


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director = Steve Miner
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writer = George Durham (Book: 'Taming of the Neuces Strip: The Story of McNelly's Rangers')Scott Busby Martin Copeland
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starring = James Van Der Beek, Dylan McDermott, Ashton Kutcher,
Usher
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cinematography = Daryn Okada
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released = November 30, 2001
runtime = 90 min.
country = U.S.A.
language = English
budget = 38 million
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imdb_id = 0193560

"Texas Rangers" is a 2001 film directed by Steve Miner. It is about a group of Texas Rangers set in the post-American Civil War era.

Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly (McDermott) to form a company of Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexican border. With a few veterans of the war (Patrick, Travis), most of the recruits are young men (Van Der Beek, Kutcher, Raymond) who have little or no experience with guns or policing crime. The antagonist of the story is John King Fisher (Molina) who is stealing cattle, killing the young rangers and fleeing into Mexico.

The film is loosely based on the activities of Leander H. McNelly and the "Special Force" of the Texas Rangers, but it takes considerable liberties with the historical record (McNelly is shown dying of tuberculosis shortly after the climax of the action, when in real life he had retired from the Rangers the year before; King Fisher was not actually killed by the Rangers, but came to an agreement with them).

While filmed in 1999, it was not released until 2001.

ynopsis

After McNelly and his men pursue Fisher for a while, they fall into a trap, where many of the young and ill-trained rangers are killed. Defeated and low on morale, the men fall back to a ranch house and attempt to set up an ambush for Fisher. After being double crossed by a woman (perhaps unwittingly), the rangers remain one step behind Fisher and his men. Two of the rangers follow Fisher and his men to the Mexican border, where they wait for the rest of their company. Once the entire Ranger company arrives at the Mexican border, they plan their final attack. In a final gun-slinging showdown, the Rangers face off against Fisher and his men.

Cast

Goofs

*When Lincoln Rogers Dunnison meets George Durham and arrives in Brownsville, Lincoln's facial hair changes as his sideburns get thinner and change shape.

*The film takes place along the Nueces Strip, the coastal line from Nueces County to Brownsville. However, the film frequently shows hills and mountains, which are not found within 200 miles of the Nueces Strip.

Reception

"Texas Rangers" was widely panned by critics, getting a 4% "Rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1111103-texas_rangers/]

External links

*imdb title|id=0193560|title=Texas Rangers
*http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=texasrangers.htm