“A Reckoning” (** out of four) was a sputtering Western melodrama about a wife (June Dietrich) who enjoys her life home on the range but whose husband is brutally murdered and she leaves everything behind to seek frontier vengeance and hunt down his killer (Todd A. Robinson) but finds that the road to revenge is a difficult trail for her. Beautiful photography and stirring music score are definite plusses but story is logy and never develops significant or sufficient momentum. Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah used to make richer Westerns than this in their sleep. Lance Henriksen and Meg Foster show up in minor supporting roles but I can reckon that these aren’t the comeback roles they were hoping for.

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