Texas Rangers 2001

Christy Lemire, Associated Press: A documentary on baseball's Texas Rangers and their last-place season would have been more interesting. Read more

John Petrakis, Chicago Tribune: The end result may not be a full-blown disaster, but it comes close. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: Enough horse-opera cliches to shame the makers of Gunsmoke. Read more

Scott Von Doviak, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com: All hat and no cattle. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: A dull show. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: This is one bland and cheesy Tex-Mex burrito of a movie. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: As dull as its title. Read more

Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News: Although it's not the worst western ever made (The Terror of Tiny Town will forever hold that title), it is one of the most mediocre, falling prey to more cliches than you can shake a six-gun at. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Plays as if the script pages had been tossed in the air and randomly assembled. Read more

Eddie Cockrell, Variety: Large cast is uniformly fine with tongue-twisting, pulpy dialogue, though pic presents only brief flashes of what look to be fully realized characterizations jettisoned at some point during production or post. Read more