Video Review

A Town Has Turned to Dust

Reviewed by Michael Sauter | Mar 12, 1999
EW's GRADE
C-

Details Movie Rated: Unrated; Genre: Sci-fi and Fantasy; With: Stephen Lang and Ron Perlman

Updating a 1958 Rod Serling script, this futuristic Western set on a dust-choked earth pits a sheriff (Lang) against a lynch mob led by a brutish town boss (Perlman). Since the prisoner comes from a ghettoized Native American sector, the stage seems set for a classic Serling morality play, a la The Twilight Zone. But all that emerges from the stylized murk is a skeleton of a drama. C-

Originally posted Mar 12, 1999 Published in issue #476 Mar 12, 1999 Order article reprints

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