“Justice” (** out of four) was a lackluster Western set in 1868 after the Civil War but a corrupt mayor (Stephen Lang) and a bloodthirsty gang of outlaws are intent on re-surging the war and turning an old abandoned mine into a military stronghold; a U.S. marshal (Jackson Rathbone) with a mysterious past rides into town and attempts to restore order. Handsomely photographed like most Westerns but story, characters, and dialogue are all so hollow and familiar. By this point, it’s the Western genre itself that needs to be re-surged because they’ve virtually all been the same since about 1868. Lang is first-rate again and once again shows he’s a dynamite character actor.

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