Apparently this is a sequel to an earlier movie where Danny Trejo plays Guerrero, a man who died, went to Hell, and agreed to send other people to Hell if the Devil would let him out. I'm unclear if he was already dead in the first one, or that was how it ended.
He actually spends very little time in Tombstone, instead returning to his childhood home of Silver River, where he's immediately confronted by some Confederate putz who wants a mysterious "bone box" Guerrero's brother said their father hid. Guerrero has no idea where it is, but this doesn't stop the Confederate from blowing up his horse, or ultimately stabbing his mother, or threatening his estranged daughter. It turns into a whole thing about looking for some satanic relic with the power to raise the dead, and Guerrero's got to decide whether he's going to stand and do the right thing or not.
The biggest problem is that the Confederate, named Jackson Boomer of all things, only survives because Guerrero's an idiot. There are multiple occasions where Guerrero or someone else has a gun on Jackson, or he's standing out in the open in front of someone who has a gun, and they simply. . . don't shoot him. They shoot other people instead. Guerrero does this repeatedly, and I'm sitting there wondering why he's not cutting the head off the snake. The rest of the Johnny Rebs have about three brain cells among them, kill Boomer and they're easy pickings. Even when he gets shot, he seems to recover from that rather easily, so who cares if they shoot him a bunch?
Plus, the Rebs love to tie a string around something so that it triggers an explosion when pulled. Guerrero falls for this twice. The second time when he should really be more concerned about finding Boomer than picking up his childhood toy horse.
Oh well, low expectations not exceeded once again.
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