Forsaken (2015)

A slow-burning Western starring real-life father and son Donald and Kiefer Sutherland as an onscreen father and son. The elder man is a staunch reverend with bitter feelings toward his boy, John Henry Clayton, who is only now returning to the family home after having gone to war many years before.
There's not much gun-play, and the unscrupulous rich man (Brian Cox) who'll kill to acquire land isn't very original, but I enjoyed the setting, it serves the feelings of estrangement well and enables a promise made but not yet kept to be unearthed alongside a physical toil. Overall, it's not the best example of its type, but if you appreciate a reflective drama that doesn't rush toward its end, then it might fill a lazy afternoon for you, too, like it did for me.

3 assertations out of 5