Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn't seen in over ten years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her husband's gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job.
Jane Got a Gun is a troubled production (multiple director changes, cast shuffles) that shows in its uneven execution. The revenge/siege Western premise is familiar, and the film leans heavily on flashback structure to add depth but the pacing suffers. Natalie Portman delivers a committed performance and the frontier setting is competently shot, but the film never distinguishes itself visually or narratively beyond its female-led angle. The climax feels rushed and anticlimactic for a story that built tension slowly, and the overall result is a middling Western that neither reinvents the genre nor executes the formula with particular flair.