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Renegade (aka Blueberry) |  | Actors: Dominique Bettenfeld, Ernest Borgnine, Vincent Cassel, Vahina Giocante, Nichole Hiltz
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  53 reviews
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), German (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 124 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: COLD08514D
ISBN: 1404967850
UPC: 043396085145
EAN: 9781404967854
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Release Date: November 2, 2004
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Product Description
Initiated by the indians mike blueberry a marshal in palomito tries to maintain the fine balance between the two civilizations. Everything changes the day a mysterious killer transforms the town into an inferno. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 11/01/2005 Starring: Vincent Cassel Michael Madsen Run time: 124 minutes Rating: R
Amazon.com
Based on a comic book, the international co-production Renegade (original English-language title: Blueberry) is a feverish, supernatural Western about a young Cajun man, Mike Blueberry (Hugh O'Connor), who defends his prostitute-girlfriend against gunman Wallace Blount (Michael Madsen) and ends up barely alive. Patched up by Indians, Blueberry undergoes the familiar cultural transformation to honorary Native American, then returns to his world to become a small-town marshal. (Vincent Cassel plays the adult Blueberry.) The arrival of Blount, possessed with otherworldly powers and seeking a mystical manuscript, sets the stage for a spooky duel that forces Blueberry to face old demons. The latter part of the film is overtaken by computer-generated effects that grow wearying, but before that director Jan Kounen makes up for weak narrative skills with mesmerizing imagery of the American Southwest. A nice supporting cast includes Juliette Lewis and her father, Geoffrey Lewis, plus Colm Meaney, Eddie Izzard, Ernest Borgnine, and Tcheky Karyo. --Tom Keogh
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mafiaboy (michigan)
Why was this movie in the western section? was all I could ask myself over and over again after recovering from the headach I received after watching this movie they should have put it in the stoner section with a shinny cover so they could giggle while watching the colors dance in the light. This movie actually got a good rating on this website for some reason it boggles the mind a little if you look it up in blockbuster you might find more suitable advice I wouldn't waste any time on this movie unless you are into tripping out yourself. I thought it was dumb but that's just my point of view.
 Worst 'so called" Western of 2004 July 8, 2008
Over-the-hill-gang (Mid Tennessee)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This has got to be the worst movie of 2004. Possibly the worst of the decade. I can see NO redeeming atributes what-so-ever. A total waste of film and a waste of your 2 hours.
 SUPERB PSYCHEDELLIA July 5, 2008
Garland G. Hewlett (Brandon, Florida)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Renegade (aka Blueberry)SUPERB PSYCHEDELLIA- This film literally blew me away. It is the most accurate portrayal of a full blown high dose psychedellic experience that I have ever seen in a motion picture. Too bad Tim Leary isn't around on the physical plane to have caught this one. I am sure that he would have praised it to no end with his considerable mastery of the written word.
As a film, the cinematography is excellent and the editing places the visuals and story line into the realm of pure poetry. This is no ordinary western, but an epic mystical journey that harks back to the glory days of Carlos Casteneda's Don Juan novels. The film gives due reverence and respect to the American Southwestern Indians and their use of the peyote cactus as a healing tool for bringing wholeness to those who are wounded by their past and by the evil that is a part of life and that is responsible for those tramas.
It is interesting to note that Juliet Lewis appears in this film and that she also stared in NATURAL BORN KILLERS which also features and extremely well done and realistic mushroom trip involving snakes and the reptilian levels of consciousness that psychedellics activate deep in the brain.
I found that it took me many hours to fall asleep after watching this movie because I was so excited to discover that someone had suceeded in creating such a wonderful and faithfull vehicle for communicating the awsome mystery and healing properties of the psychedellic experience. I can only say that this one hit it's target and is truly a masterwork of cinematic and spiritual art!
Snakes! June 5, 2008
J. Fitzpatrick (Cincinnati, OH United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
From what I understand, the director managed to get the visions of the drug accurate. The drug they are using causes intense violent vomiting followed by curious hallucinations. The most common vision reported appears to be of snakes.... But also the drug of choice (the snakey drug) would not have been that common in the southwest. It would have more likely been a south american visitation.... But, hey, call it creative license.
So enjoy the film. It's a bizarre hoot... And it's got Ernie Borgnine. How cool! Oh, and it's French, so I take it to be a Franco fantasy take on American cowboy movies as transmitted through the medium of Italian westerns such as The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. What's not to love!
Watch it again and again. June 3, 2008
J. Barton (Dorset, UK)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Simply put, the closest you'll get to seeing the other worlds of spirit and true reality without taking Ayahuasca or Peyote.
The director took over a hundred trips on Ayahuasca, helped by a real shaman (the old Indian in the film!). The effects portray as close as possible the reality of the experience.
Mind blowing stuff. The last time I watched it I fast forwarded through the slow parts, stopping at the key plot elements, and also stopping to savour the trippy parts. Madsen is great in this, and everyone acts well.
Anyone contemplating taking the shamanic journey would do well to watch this to get a taste of the heaven and hell it can lead to.
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