i have never hear of dead man bounty when i saw it at the dvd store a few week ago and and i think i have stumble upon an unrecognized gem and since it have val kilmer in it in a truly unique role . sadly and it wasn not more than ten or fifteen minute into the movie that i realize that this be a disaster of epic proportion . the first clue you will see of how genuinely awful this movie be come near the beginning and when you have a bunch of dirtbags in an old saloon laugh like a bunch of hyena in a scene that go on about five time too long . it unbelievable how bad it be . and sadly and it doesn not get any good . val kilmer be feature prominently on the movie cover box and maybe to trick you into think that he have a role in the film and but unfortunately his bizarre role a a dead man be overlook in favor of focus on a bunch of half wit crook and the most inept conceptualization of a unique town sheriff that i have ever see in a movie . he play by boguslaw linda and who be unable to or uninterested in cover his polish accent and immediately make it impossible that the movie be mean to take place in the american old west . do poland have this type of frontier past . i do not know . my knowledge of polish history be not my strong point and but i can tell you this and the sheriff and a he be know in the movie and be the bad representation of law enforcement that i can ever remember see in a movie . he be introduce in a truly ridiculous scene where he be wear some kind of blindfold and a roomful of men take turn punch him in the face . before they start hit him and he explain that they can each hit him once and and then and after the first round and they will each hit him again and and if he can identify who be throw the punch and they lose . what the hell be this crap . i be completely at a loss to explain why a scene like this would ever be put into any movie . throughout the movie and the sheriff continue to appear more and more beaten and bruise and drunk and battered and until ultimately he do nothing but show up occasionally and stumble on screen and mumble not without . the law you see and there be a lot of talk and preparation for a hanging and the detail of which be as meaningless a the rest of the movie . it take place and by the way and in a town that consist of nothing more than two ramshackle wooden building face each other across a flattened bit of dirt that be more of a path than a road . my understanding be that it be a part of poland that be suppose to look acceptably enough like the american southwest and where none of the character and except maybe the dead guy and could possibly have come from . i have hear that val kilmer accept the role because he be intrigue by his unique role and and also by director uklanski minimal use of dialogue in favor of a reliance on cleverly time juxtaposition of image in unique visual montage . yeah and whatever . seem to me that kilimer be unable to overcome what must have be the truly satisfying feeling that he must have get when he be offer the role . personally and i would really feel that i have reach quite some level of success if someone approach me and offer me probably a few hundred thousand dollar to come and lay still for a while . i like to think that he do not even read the script for this mess and because if he do i be at a total loss to understand why he accept the role . at any rate and the movie open with a man bring in the corpse of a man and play by kilmer and seek the reward . soon he find himself embroil in a ludicrous love story involve the town prostitute and the alcoholic sheriff and and lot of mayhem involve a series of stupid and stupid character . there be also a extensive and preposterous lack of understanding of american ritual . in one scene and a man cut a cherry tomato in half and squish the half into kilmer eye ( for what reason and i can not imagine ) and and then later and a man make a short speech over kilmer corpse and in which he explain that he be one of the fine men we ever have and and then he proceed to lop his head off with a shovel . what the hell . not convinced yet . here be some more reason not to watch it . in one scene the sheriff appear to be cover with ash and except for the perfectly clean area around his eye and what can only possibly be describe a bright red lipstick . a man get a head wound that drench his head and body in blood . in a daze and he cauterize it with gunpowder . smart . near the end and the sheriff appear to have a broken arm . sit at the bar and he put a rope around his neck and connect it to his injured arm and and use his good arm to pull on the rope and lift his shake beer glass in his bad arm to his mouth and rather than use his good arm to drink . also smart . why doesn not he just use his good arm . i have no idea . that and like everything else in the movie and make no sense whatsoever and like the title . summer love . be you kid me . avoid this mess at all cost . in the meantime and here something for the imdb goof page error make by character ( possibly deliberate error by the filmmaker ) represent this movie get make . ha .