south of heaven and west of hell ( 2 outta 5 star ) consider the tremendous cast involve in this movie ( billy bob thornton and vince vaughn and bridget fonda and bud cort and peter fonda and bo hopkins and luke askew and matt clark and scott wilson etc . ) i be expect one hell of a movie . sadly and the meandering nature of the script doesn not really give the movie much forward motion . there be a few individual scene that be noteworthy but a lot of other scene that seem to serve no purpose but to give a few quotable line to a familiar film veteran . director or writer or star dwight yoakam be the star of the film but unfortunately he doesn not quite have what it take to hold the movie together . vince vaughn bad guy role steal his thunder in every scene they share . many other scene be mar by be a little too over the top ( a when a prisoner slobber all over the naked bosom of a prostitute press up against the window to his cell ) . consider that the movie be basically a vanity project for dwight yoakam it not as terrible a it might be . he very generous in give screen time to his co star . and he do come up with some nice dialogue . yoakam also provide the memorably haunt musical theme run throughout the movie . not a total waste of time . but very bumpy go at time .