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For a film that took nearly eight years to complete, I expected better. Gallowwalkers issue for me is that it commits the greatest of movie crimes, it's boring and it really has to no reason to be. Gallowwalkers is a scant ninety minutes long and with the premise of a gun man having to re-kill his victims it could have been a lot better. But in addition to the flaw of being boring, Gallowwalkers has a whole litany of other issues and has plot holes big enough you could pitch a tent in them.

Gallowwalkers follows Aman (Wesley Snipes) as he hunts for a gang of men that raped his wife, who became pregnant and later dies in childbirth. He rescues Fabulos (Riley Smith), who's being transported by the police with other prisoners including Angel (Tanit Pheonix). Aman takes Fabulos out into the desert, where Aman traps Fabulos and forces him to fight off a handful of undead called gallowwalkers, After surviving, Aman offers Fabulos a job, as it turns out as great of a gun man he is he can't kill all the bad guys, all by him self. Than the movie goes all wonky with its story telling. In the jumbled mess that's the rest of the film, we learn that Aman has already killed the men once and died shortly after. His mother found his body and …show more content…

Angel, I'm looking at you. Tanit Pheonix does a good enough job with how absolute little she's given. The first time we see the character she manages slip a knife off an officer, while she handcuffed. Showing that this character to be intelligent and capable. Then she just gets relegated to being a pretty face, that gets dragged around from place to place for no reason. She's played up towards the end like she's suppose to be Fabulos love interest and that we should be concerned about her well being. Which with how little she's in the film and how disposable the character is, as you could remove from the film as is and nothing would be

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