The Unholy Trinity is a Pierce Brosnan and Samuel L. Jackson Western action film written by Lee Zachariah, directed by Richard Gray. It also stars Brandon Lessard as a young man who travels to the titular town of Montana to avenge his father’s death.
In the rugged frontier town of Trinity, Montana, Henry Broadway witnesses his father, Isaac, being hanged. Isaac vehemently claims innocence, insisting he was framed by a corrupt sheriff, Saul Butler. Henry, a gullible son estranged from his father, readily believes him and sets out to fulfill Isaac’s dying wish to clear his name and deliver justice.
Samuel L Jackson makes a fine western antagonist here, if not quite rising to the heights of his blanket-blackmail sex act in The Hateful Eight. The fellow about to swing is Isaac Broadway (Tim Daly), who manages to communicate to his onlooking son Henry (Lessard) that he should seek revenge on one Sheriff Butler, who framed him for murder. But when Henry corners a different lawman, Gabriel Dove (Brosnan), in a church in the Montana town of Trinity, he learns that someone got to the previous sheriff first.
Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: “At best, this serviceable shoot-’em-up features solid turns by veterans Pierce Brosnan and Samuel L. Jackson — the latter sporting a formidable pair of graying mutton chops. But the seasoned duo can only do so much to salvage a convoluted and formulaic scenario involving bloody vendettas, double crossings, stolen gold bars and lots of boilerplate dialogue, all of it set against a rather stunning Montana backdrop.”
Glenn Kenny of RogerEbert.com gave the film two and a half out of four stars, writing: “The movie’s not a barn-burner or future classic, but new Westerns are thin on the ground these days, and this ultimately is a better-than-decent one.”
