Bringing Back the Past||The Old Way (2023)

How would you like for your little daughter to be your personal assistant, or in this case, your sidekick? Great, right? Well, Colton Briggs(Nicolas Cage) wouldn't exactly agree with you.

I present to you "The old Way". A western movie starring Nicolas cage. Many of the movies I've seen him in were either action or drama but today, I'd be making a review of a western movie acted by him.

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Colten Briggs is a retired gunslinger whose life was changed by a woman, his wife. He was merciless when it came to killing and never took note of the people he had hurt in the process.

Twenty years later, after starting up a family, it was time for him to pay for all the atrocities he had caused. Like they say, "karma is a bitch".

His wife asked him to walk his daughter (Brooke) to school as he was never really a constant in her life and with so much reluctance, he finally agreed.

Brooke's teacher wasn't around as she had taken ill and so Colten had no other option but to take his daughter with him to his store. She sits quietly at the corner and observes all the things going on.

As a very smart girl, Brooke figured that her mom didn't come to school to get her. Even if school was closed, why didn't her mom come over to the store to ask for her. This was when the action began.

Ruth Briggs is confronted at home by four men who claim they were missing. She senses suspicion and tries to run away. The men found their way to capture her and she is murdered in cold blood. The killers leave the message "I owe you more" written with Ruth's blood

Colten is so pained. His wife was murdered by someone he can't even remember. His acquaintance, Marshal Jarrett, didn't want to disclose the identity of the killers, saying that "he's protecting a killer from another killer".

Marshal Jarrett assures Colten that he would take care of the men that murdered Ruth in a legal way. He went further to say that there is no room for vengeance as long as Brooke was alive. That statement prompted Colten to almost kill his daughter but his calm and coordinated daughter made him shrug off the thought.

With his daughter by his side, he set out on a revenge journey. The murderers lured him their way. But like I always say, "going for revenge with so much anger wouldn't end well". In the process, Colten was murdered by Clark -the son of a man Colten had killed two decades earlier.

In Clark's ecstasy and satisfaction, he got shot. By whom? Wouldn't you want to find out?

I got to find out that Brooke was so much like her father. They had no emotions or they were 'born dead on the inside' like they put it.