Way of the Gun just bugs the hell out of me. I can't tell what I am supposed to be seeing in the gun fighting parts. #1 they happened to hire an advisor for the gun scenes, and he made sure they were done displaying the highest level of proficiency regardless of the rest of the movie. #2 the excellent gun handling was supposed to be some sort of joke.
It just doesn't make sense that you got 2 loner scumbag screwballs who all of a sudden exibit excellent gun handling skills, and all of a sudden have just a ton of hardware to do it with. From the beginning scene, they obviously have no problem starting violent confrontations 'just for kicks' although that is just punching and stuff, in the middle we see them using biological means to garner cash (to use a THR approprate discription) while acting like A-holes or jokers, yet they got no problem starting violence and are apparently highly skilled so why not hold up a bank?
It's just way to much of how those guys are characterized does not explain how they become ubergunmen when the chips are down. Enough so that it distracts from the entire movie. But as said, the plotline and acting isn't very compelling.
Thing is, bad acting bad plotline, good gun scenes, I can normally just drop in the DVD or tape and fastforward to the fightscene, watch it, and be happy (ala heat, I don't need to see robert dinero's character romance the bookstore lady every time...nor the val kilmer's character wife issues but I can watch the opening holdup, then zip to the bank holdup and be happy)