Having spent some time on the shelf, this crass postmodern western about the famous border force was finally released to a universal chorus of disapproval. It pitches itself as a Young Guns-style adventure for a new generation of teen pin-ups, as dying sheriff Dylan McDermott turns James Van Der Beek, Ashton Kutcher and Usher Raymond into a fighting force capable of taming Alfred Molina's bandits. It's a lamentable tale, and Steve Miner's direction is consistently uninspired, but even that pales beside the mess that he makes of the Wild Bunch shoot-out pastiche.

Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to form a company of Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexican border. With a few veterans of the war, most of the recruits are young men who have little or no experience with guns or policing crime.