Loud, vivid, violent, and messy, The Harder They Fall (currently playing on Netflix) is the kind of movie you stumble across on a random evening and are relieved that there’s something fairly lively to watch. If you like Westerns, that is.

The writer-director-producer is Jeymes Samuel, also known by his music world moniker The Bullitts and for his relationship to his brother, Henry Samuel, aka Seal. Here, he’s cowriting his feature film debut with Boaz Yakin and coproducing with longtime collaborator Jay-Z. Samuel likes Westerns so much — Westerns of all kinds, it seems: classic, revisionist, spaghetti, acid, whatever — that he admits to having committed to memory the lyrics of “Just Blew in From the Windy City” in the Doris Day–starring, Western-adjacent 1953 musical Calamity Jane.

That’s kind of endearing. He adds that, even as an obsessive watcher of Westerns from childhood on,