“Dead For A Dollar” (*1/2 out of four) was a disposable Western about a famed bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) who runs into his sworn enemy (Willem Dafoe) who is a professional gambler and villainous outlaw whom he had sent to prison years earlier and things start to get really ugly in the old West with various townsfolk (Rachel Brosnahan, Benjamin Bratt, and others) taking sides. Big-name cast fails to elevate by-the-numbers and weak material. Most Westerns at least are visually beautiful but the cinematography here is blurry and ill-lit and Walter Hill’s direction is surprisingly amateurish. His earlier Western efforts “The Long Riders” and “Extreme Prejudice” were far more involving.

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