“3 Tickets To Paradise” (** out of four) was a wooden Western about a feisty woman (Michelle Manhart), her ex-husband (Jeffrey Bentley whose a dead ringer for Scott Weiland) whose a reformed criminal, and a federal agent (Martin Kove) who all head for a ghost town in Mexico called Paradise in which they’re in search of 5000 stolen double-eagle coins. Watchable for Western fans, with some pretty scenery and a solid music score from Warren Lazar, but Sam Peckinpah did this same material far more richly and stirringly over 40 years ago. It’s nice to see Kove still showing authority at 75 but overall it’s not worth buying a “ticket” for this one.

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