Gone Are The Days

Lance Henriksen plays a dying outlaw who decides if he's gonna go, he's gonna go on his terms. Which means trying to rob a bank he tried robbing 20 years ago, to disastrous results. And also trying to make things right with his daughter, who doesn't even know he's her dad.

Considering Taylon spends most of the movie drinking heavily from a bottle of cough syrup labeled as being 'pure heroin', I was inclined to think the whole thing is him hallucinating while he dies slowly in his crappy bed on his rapidly decaying ranch. That doesn't seem to be the case, but there is a mysterious ferry man, played by Danny Trejo, who pops up a couple of times in the movie to be what can pass for cryptic when you're speaking to a dying old man on heroin. Also, Taylon's partner Virgil seems surprisingly young to have been involved in the previous bank robbery, and he pops into and out of the story abruptly.

The film runs about 100 minutes, but it dragged in the middle, when Taylon is trying to build some sort of connection with Heidi, or else get his shit together to go rob the stupid bank. It seemed like a lot of time spent on him in a daze, reliving bad memories or trying to cough up a lung. When Virgil pops up, complaining that Taylon's wasted two days, I was inclined to agree with him. If all this is so important, if it's so vital you die how you want, then get the lead out of your pants, old man!