Available on iTunes, Google Play, and other Digital platforms starting April 6th, 2021
Promise, written by, directed by, and starring Joe Cornet and available starting April 6th on various Digital platforms including iTunes, Google Play, and others, is a low budget western that is too laid back for its own good. There are some fascinating performances and some nice set design and costuming, but the movie has no sense of time, urgency, and feels too much like a vanity project for star Cornet. I get that Cornet is trying to do the quiet, philosophical badass in the Old West thing, but it just doesn’t work as Cornet doesn’t have the necessary screen presence or charisma to pull it off. And why is this this movie almost two hours long when it has, maybe, 80 minutes of story in it?