Product Details

• Actors: Vincent Cassel, Michael Madsen, Juliette Lewis, Temuera Morrison, Ernest Borgnine
• Directors: Jan Kounen
• Writers: Jan Kounen, Alexandre Coquelle, Carlo De Boutiny, Cassidy Pope, Gérard Brach
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English, French, German, Spanish
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: November 2, 2004
• Run Time: 124 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (62 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002XNSZ4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,859 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Renegade" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

In 1870's, a U.S. Marshall named Mike S. Blueberry becomes the sheriff of the town of Palomito where a number of shady figures including the man who killed his girlfriend, and a German Baron search for gold.
Genre: Westerns
Rating: R
Release Date: 7-JUN-2005
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews

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42 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you like westerns, look elsewhere. Otherwise it's AWESOME, February 26, 2005

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doppelganger "dvd-archive" (Chicago) - See all my reviews

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Did you ever meet your beast? The other other reviewer is exactly right in that it's a metaphysical experience. Looking at the back cover, I wonder if the person who wrote the description had any idea what the movie was actually about.

There is realism here. Everyone is speaking different languages as it was; French, Spanish, English, Native Americans tounges, etc. Pioneers are looking for gold, and Madsen is looking for His gold (I won't spoil). He's an AWESOME villian, but you already know that. Everyone else is fantastic. The special effects are really well done, and thorough (excellent production value).

About halfway through, I was thinking this is an awesome movie, and toward the end, speechless. Totally stunned, the credits rolled by.

I'm a sci-fi junky, and this didn't seem like it was really up my alley, but was recommended. And thank God, because sometimes the best movies are the ones that you never even heard of.

The reviewers who hated this movie should ask themselves what they wanted out of it, and then maybe go jump out a window for the rest of our sakes.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SUPERB PSYCHEDELLIA, July 5, 2008

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Garland G. Hewlett (Brandon, Florida) - See all my reviews
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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!

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Animals Are Beasts, But Men Are Monsters" ~ Facing the Terror Within, August 9, 2005

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Brian E. Erland "Rainbow Sphinx" (Brea, CA - USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Renegade (DVD)

To truly become a man one must conquer his fear of 'Two Worlds,' the temporal, mundane world in which we live and the intangible, eternal spirit world within. Mike Blueberry (Vincent Cassel) or "Broken Nose" (his Indian name) has come to his defining moment in life. An old enemy has returned to town, the man responsible for the death of his first love. Will Mike be able to conquer the enemy from his past as well as his inner demons that have tormented him since that tragic event? Or will he succumb to his fears and remain forever nothing more than a man and a monster?

Recipe for the making of 'Renegade': Take the opening twenty minutes of 'Dead Man,' the greater middle portion of 'The Emerald Forest' and mix in a little '2001: A Space Odyssey' at the end and you have 'Renegade.' Not a bad blend by any means.