The Unholy Trinity
Set in the late 19th Century, the town of Trinity is presented to us through the unassuming eyes of Henry Broadway (Brandon Lessard) who has just watched his estranged father (Tim Daly) hung for a crime he didn't commit. Trinity is your typical Old West town with raucous inhabitants, a sheriff struggling to keep order, and justice often coming from the end of a rope or a gun. Mistaking the current sheriff for the one who framed his father, Henry has a run-in with Gabriel Dove (Pierce Brosnan), although the misunderstanding is quicky resolved.
Henry's luck in the town doesn't improve getting between one of the rougher locals and a whore (Katrina Bowden) which puts him on the run from the man's friends who are also hunting a Native American woman (Q'orianka Kilcher) for crimes she too did not commit. And then there's the fast-talking St. Christopher (Samuel L. Jackson) who helps the naive Henry on his journey because he believes the young man is the key to finding a lost stash of gold.
One of the most interesting aspects to the film is the number of familiar faces seen throughout what is largely a throwaway Western. We also get David Arquette, Veronica Ferres, and Star Trek: Brave New World's Ethan Peck. I think the story of the casting of director Richard Gray's movie, and how this group came together, might have made for an interesting featurette (back in the day when physical media was thriving).
Not all the threads of The Unholy Trinity weave together as well as I would like, and Lessard's Henry can be a bit bland in comparison to the other characters, but screenwriter Lee Zachariah's script plays on classic Western themes and offers a bit of mystery and danger for its mostly by-the-book tale of a town full of people neither the guileless Henry nor the overworked sheriff can trust. Before the end we'll get plenty of gunplay, St. Christopher stirring the pot for his own ends, and a measure of bloody justice wrung out of the blood-soaked Trinity.
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