2001·Western·1h 30m
7.0
★
Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to form a company of Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexican border. With a few veterans of the war, most of the recruits are young men who have little or no experience with guns or policing crime.
Directed by Steve Miner
tiger
texas
texas ranger
usa–mexico border
racial segregation
19th century
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Cast
James Van Der Beek
Lincoln Rogers Dunnison
Rachael Leigh Cook
Caroline Dukes
Ashton Kutcher
George Durham
Dylan McDermott
Leander McNelly
Usher
Randolph Douglas Scipio
Tom Skerritt
Richard Dukes
Randy Travis
Frank Bones
Leonor Varela
Perdita
Alfred Molina
John King Fisher
Robert Patrick
Sgt. John Armstrong
Gordon Michaels
Mariachi Guard
Jon Abrahams
Berry Smith
Crew
Steve Miner
Director
Trevor Rabin
Original Music Composer
Peter Devaney Flanagan
Editor
Daryn Okada
Director of Photography
Harvey Weinstein
Executive Producer
Bob Weinstein
Executive Producer
Alan Greisman
Producer
David S. Cass Sr.
Co-Producer
Dan Bradley
Second Unit Director
Michael Runyard
Stunts
Danny Wynands
Stunts
Darrin Prescott
Stunts
Popular Reviews
6 reviews
Alfred HitchTOK
4.0★ · 02/12/26
Texas Rangers feels like a calculated attempt at ‘let’s do a Young Guns but make it 2000s’ packing the cast with big on TV names of the day.
Dawson Leery is an accountant type, whose fam is slaughtered by bandits, and instead of going on a surrealist journey of self discovery like Johnny Depp in Dead Man he instead signs up to join the Texas Rangers, lead by former preacher Dylan McDermott as Leander McNelly, an honest to gosh actual historical figure. Kelso, T-1000, Usher and Forever and Ever, Amen also join the crew where they face of against a camp Alfred Molina, suitably evil even without the additional 6 arms.
Directed by Steve Miner, the helmer of many a slasher sequel, this is mostly pedestrian stuff and hinges on our ability to accept the transformation of James Van Der Beek from nerd into macho action cowbo mode, to mostly middling results.
Dylan McDermott sure does rock a mean pair of dual wielded six shooters though.
Dawson Leery is an accountant type, whose fam is slaughtered by bandits, and instead of going on a surrealist journey of self discovery like Johnny Depp in Dead Man he instead signs up to join the Texas Rangers, lead by former preacher Dylan McDermott as Leander McNelly, an honest to gosh actual historical figure. Kelso, T-1000, Usher and Forever and Ever, Amen also join the crew where they face of against a camp Alfred Molina, suitably evil even without the additional 6 arms.
Directed by Steve Miner, the helmer of many a slasher sequel, this is mostly pedestrian stuff and hinges on our ability to accept the transformation of James Van Der Beek from nerd into macho action cowbo mode, to mostly middling results.
Dylan McDermott sure does rock a mean pair of dual wielded six shooters though.
Texas Rangers feels like a calculated attempt at ‘let’s do a Young Guns but make it 2000s’ packing the cast with big on TV names of the day.
Dawson Leery is an accountant type, whose fam is slaughtered by bandits, and instead of going on a surrealist journey of self discovery like Johnny Depp in Dead Man he instead signs up to join the Texas Rangers, lead by former preacher Dylan McDermott as Leander McNelly, an honest to gosh actual historical figure. Kelso, T-1000, Usher and Forever and Ever, Amen also join the crew where they face of against a camp Alfred Molina, suitably evil even without the additional 6 arms.
Directed by Steve Miner, the helmer of many a slasher sequel, this is mostly pedestrian stuff and hinges on our ability to accept the transformation of James Van Der Beek from nerd into macho action cowbo mode, to mostly middling results.
Dylan McDermott sure does rock a mean pair of dual wielded six shooters though.
Dawson Leery is an accountant type, whose fam is slaughtered by bandits, and instead of going on a surrealist journey of self discovery like Johnny Depp in Dead Man he instead signs up to join the Texas Rangers, lead by former preacher Dylan McDermott as Leander McNelly, an honest to gosh actual historical figure. Kelso, T-1000, Usher and Forever and Ever, Amen also join the crew where they face of against a camp Alfred Molina, suitably evil even without the additional 6 arms.
Directed by Steve Miner, the helmer of many a slasher sequel, this is mostly pedestrian stuff and hinges on our ability to accept the transformation of James Van Der Beek from nerd into macho action cowbo mode, to mostly middling results.
Dylan McDermott sure does rock a mean pair of dual wielded six shooters though.
Dustin Franklin
1.0★ · 07/04/25
Cast full of familiar names and faces, and absolutely none of them are ones you’d expect to find in a western that’s any good— and this one didn’t surprise me that it was, in fact, not good. I mean, James Van Der Beek, Aston Kutcher, and Usher. Which of them screams “the next Clint Eastwood”? Answer: none of the above. This movie stinks out loud.
Cast full of familiar names and faces, and absolutely none of them are ones you’d expect to find in a western that’s any good— and this one didn’t surprise me that it was, in fact, not good. I mean, James Van Der Beek, Aston Kutcher, and Usher. Which of them screams “the next Clint Eastwood”? Answer: none of the above. This movie stinks out loud.
sodachamp
1.0★ · 03/23/21
for work
for work
Eric MirchichPRO
2.0★ · 04/03/21
Cinergy
3.0★ · 06/15/18