Texas Rangers

This old-fashioned Western about the glory years of the Texas Rangers, cast with fresh-faced, telegenic young actors whose performances range from adequate to awful, is undermined by a serious lack of true grit. 1875: Ten years after the end of the Civil War, Texas has become a war zone. In the absence of organized law enforcement — the Texas Rangers having disbanded so its members could fight for the Confederacy — Mexican bandits and American opportunists have joined forces to steal cattle and rob, rape and murder ranchers and the citizens of frontier towns. Philadelphia-born Lincoln Rogers Dunnison (James Van Der Beek) loses his family in one such raid, a...