This film essentially begins with two rodeo cowboys by the name "Sonny Gilstrap" (Kiefer Sutherland) and "Pepper Lewis" (Woody Harrelson) teaming up to win a state championship. Unfortunately, even though they have been friends for a long time, when Pepper fails to show up for an important event this creates a great amount of friction between them. Yet even though Sonny wants nothing to do with him, things change dramatically when a mutual friend by the name of "Nacho Salazar" (Joaquin Martinez) unexpectedly goes to New York City and doesn't come back. So after learning that his daughter "Teresa Salazar" (Cara Buono) may be in serious trouble the two of them reunite and head to New York to render their assistance. What they don't realize, however, is that a local mobster by the name of "John Stark" (Dylan McDermott) has essentially kidnapped Teresa and plans to force her into prostitution to pay off a nonexistent debt. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this film started off well enough but became more and more unrealistic as the movie progressed with the character of "Officer Sam Shaw" (Ernie Hudson) being especially ridiculous. Even so, this wasn't a bad film necessarily and I have rated it accordingly. Average.
Review of The Cowboy Way
