Sweetwater (Logan Miller & Noah Miller, 2013)

5/10
This is a decent-enough Western starring Ed Harris and January Jones. I keep seeing these indie Westerns thinking one will truly blow me away, but I haven't seen one yet. It's disappointing. Sweetwater doesn't make any grand missteps, really - it's just kind of...goofy. The plot is pretty threadbare...Ed Harris plays a lunatic of a sheriff who comes to town after two relatives fail to arrive with suspicion falling on the evil preacher (such a worn out trope) who's also fallen on the bad side of Jones' character once her husband goes missing. These plots lead exactly where you think they will. Really the only attractions are the beautiful, HD-shot landscapes and Ed Harris hamming it up as a zany badass who gets all the good lines and who is clearly having a blast. It's so against type from Harris' usual straight-laced and stiff characters that it makes the movie way more entertaining than it has a right to be, as everything else is fairly unimaginitive.