"Red Rock West" is one of those drama-noir ensemble movies where the bad guys are really bad and the good guys...well, they're just kinda bad. It's a movie where the brooding, plodding, and unrelenting hero, hang-faced Cage, never smiles because there's never anything to smile about. It's a movie where all the characters are caricatures and there's never a dull moment no matter how improbable the convoluted plot may have become to achieve the desired result. It's a movie where no one trusts anyone and everyone is after the loot. Overall it's a good old fashioned Hollywood popcorn movie.