“The Old Way” (** out of four) was an all-too-typical Western done in the “old way” about a former gunslinger (Nicholas Cage) and his daughter (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) who find themselves in the crossfire when the son (Noah Le Gros) of a man he killed years ago arrives on their frontier for vengeance which leads to bloody warfare. Passably done for Western fans and Cage die-hards but others may find this overly derivative and similar to “Unforgiven” and (especially) “True Grit.” Cage goes through the motions cashing another check in a direct-to-DVD trifle but Armstrong is strong as his daughter.

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