It didn't work for me. It seemed much more like a student film than something you'd see in a commercial theater. Not much charisma or chemistry between the actors and maybe two different sets to distract you from that. Some will probably be interested enough in the story to compensate for its shortcomings but I think for most, this will be a disappointment.
Out of Liberty
2019
Drama / Western

Out of Liberty
2019
Drama / Western
Synopsis
Winter 1839. LIBERTY, MISSOURI. Local jailer, Samuel Tillery (Jasen Wade) is tasked with watching Missouri's most wanted men as they await their upcoming hearing. Caught between the local Missourians' increased drive to remove the prisoners, and the prisoners' desperate efforts to survive, Tillery is pushed beyond what any lawman can endure. Based on actual recorded accounts, OUT OF LIBERTY is an intense, evocative western, with an outcome you have to see to believe.
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December 03, 2019 at 09:42 PM
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This was a religious prison drama at best, not a western movie...
Right, well I was expecting to see a proper western movie here, but instead I was served a movie about a group of imprisoned mormons and the hardships of the people that want to see them brought to justice.
Yeah, not really exactly what I had imagined this movie to be. And I managed to endure 40 minutes of the ordeal that is "Out of Liberty" before I was Out of Patience, and simply called it quits. And there is no chance of me returning to finish the rest of this movie.
Now, it should be said that the movie does have a good production value to it, and it definitely has the era feel to it, being gritty and somewhat rough. But the movie just failed utterly on its script and storyline. I was far from being entertained by what transpired on the screen, both in terms of what took place and the characters participating in said boring events.
I am sure that there is an audience out there for a movie such as this. I just wasn't in that group. Sure, the movie may be set within the confines of what constitutes a western movie, but this was hardly a western movie in the classic (or generic) meaning of the word "western".
And the whole aspect of religion that simmered beneath the surface of the movie didn't really do an ounce of helping to win me over either.
My rating of "Out of Liberty" is a mere three out of ten stars. This was a massive swing and a miss from director Garrett Batty as in managing to entertain me. I had expected this to be a western movie, not a slow paced and rather mundane prison drama.
Revisionist Western
Joseph Smith and his male followers were arrested because of their pedophile activities involving teenage girls which they added to their harem of multiple wives. This film makes us believe they were arrested in Liberty Jail because of religious intolerance. Totally fake. Historically, when the Mormons came to town Christian parents had to lock up their teenage daughters for safekeeping. As a result of taking multiple underage teenage wives, the Mormons were forced out of Missouri and settled into the untamed territory of Utah.