“Outlaw Johnny Black” (**1/2 out of four) was a moderately engaging action comedy about the title character (Michael Jai White) who is hell-bent on avenging the death of his father from a vicious outlaw (Chris Browning) but ends up becoming a fugitive from the law in the process and winds up in a mining town and poses as a preacher while trying track down his father’s killer and also doing battle with a villainous land baron (Barry Bostwick). Overlong and overstuffed with plot and characters but Jai White’s charisma and likeability take centerstage here and he carries the movie almost singlehandedly and makes it entertaining. Jai White also directed and co-wrote in a packaging similar to “Django Unchained.”

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