“No Man’s Land” (** out of four) was an overly leisurely neo-Western melodrama set on the Mexico/Texas border in which a man (Jake Allyn) accidentally kills a young immigrant boy; when his dedicated father (Frank Grillo) tries to take the blame, the man flees to Mexico and is pursued by a determined Texas ranger (George Lopez) as he tries to seek forgiveness from the dead boy’s parents. Vibrantly photographed and enhanced by a melancholic score by Brooke and Will Blair but never builds the dramatic momentum and fire it needs. Andie Macdowell has a small key role as Allyn’s mom. This is no relation to the 1987 Charlie Sheen-D.B. Sweeney thriller of the same name.

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