Gunslingers
Gunslingers
In a town named Redemption, reformed gunslinger Keller and mad genius Ben are guided by spiritual leader Jericho towards vindication. While confronting their violent histories, their newfound peace is challenged by violence and revenge.
RipLinesMan reviewedApril 21, 2025
Gunslingers and Event Horizon (1997) are both stories of men walking through fire — not the kind that burns skin, but the kind that scorches the soul. Stephen Dorff’s Thomas Keller is a gunslinger dragging his guilt behind him like a coffin through ash, much like Laurence Fishburne’s Captain Miller aboard a ship that feels less like metal and more like purgatory welded shut.
Nicolas Cage’s Ben doesn’t just stir chaos — he breathes it, like Dr. Weir possessed by flame, logic long since burned away. And Costas Mandylor’s Jericho looms like judgment itself, a preacher who speaks like thunder and moves like smoke rising off smoldering wreckage. If Event Horizon was a sermon delivered in screams, Gunslingers is that same sermon rewritten with bullets and blood in a sunlit church that no longer believes in salvation.
Both films know hell isn’t below us — it’s something we bring with us, tucked behind our eyes. One ends in space, the other in the dust, but each leaves the same mark: redemption may be real, but you’ll have to shoot your way through hell to find it.