Manthast Absolutely amazing

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Robert D. Ruplenas In choosing between two words - "perplexing" or "pretentious" - to describe this flick, I'm unsure which is more appropriate. I was drawn to it by the presence of Johnny Depp and of Robert Mitchum, despite the flurry of negative reviews. Now I understand those reviews. I almost stopped watching after the first ten minutes, which are wordless, and do nothing but show - in successive takes of no more than a minute or so each - the changing ridership of a train car in which Depp's character, William Blake, is traveling. This sets the tone for most of the movie, which will be presented, annoyingly, in brief clips, some no longer than twenty seconds. The first words spoken, addressed to Blake, are cryptic and opaque, again setting the tone for the movie. If you wonder about the reference to William Blake, the British poet and painter, you would be on point, although the nature of the relationship of Depp's character to the real Blake is still unclear at the end. The film looks like some sort of metaphor for the passage from life (gee, might that river being crossed be the Styx?), but as soon as it seems to fix on this idea a scene of knee-slapping humor will intrude (these humorous bits are actually the most appealing parts of the movie). The actor chosen to play the Indian spiritual guide looks as much like an Indian as I do an alpaca, but that might be part of the humorous angle. The second most annoying aspect of the movie after the short takes is the musical score, for distorted acoustic guitar, which is obviously a reference to Western oaters of yore and is very soon grating. Having said all that the movie is like a train wreck - you can't take your eyes off it, even though you want to.The movie succeeds in making you want to see how it all turns out, and I watched to the end, which is, alas, as cryptic as most of what preceded it.

Fahad this is a rare movie and full of feelings it doesn't have that interesting events but it somehow it takes you deep in it, it has real good drama and it has remarkable directing. and the music absolutely wonderful and it goes smoothly with the movie, the music it really support the movie and it play heavy role in making this movie incredible , for me without this music the movie well be a bit boring, johnny depp is a well pick for this role, and the B&W photography gives the movie his uniqueness.

krocheav Dead Man leans toward not being worth reviewing on several levels, a couple are: It's no great shakes and there's already too many overly pretentious reviews. There are also moments when this ridiculously expensive exercise looks and feels as clumsy as a home movie. First and foremost it's a Cinematographer and Production Designers film - take away the stylish sets and images and it falls over itself. No wonder Cinemas were running on empty during its theatrical release. Still, all said and done - there will always be those who will read deep and meaningful into lighter than air.Yes, amid the over-the-top crude violence and odd sexual set up - this could have said something about the human condition - it's just that it goes about it very poorly. I'm also not quite convinced the old west would have used certain four letter words to the degree our lazy writer throws at us here. The handful of grunge like chords that form the resemblance of a score by Neil Young (usually a favorite of mine) must rank as some of the easiest money he's made. Much of the casting expense could have been avoided by not using big names for near unrecognizable small parts. There's now a string of movie makers who are using great lines penned by earlier 'classic' writers - writer/director Jim Jarmush attempts to spin a golden web and sell 'Dead Man's' parts as worthy of more than their sum - just one problem...they ain't.What was that about the Emperor's new clothes?. For deluded cultists only.

Nobody When I first heard the strum of a distorted guitar ten minutes into the movie, I thought "wow, that was annoying, I hope that never happens again'... If only I knew that the entire score was the same f***ing sound repeated for every literal beat of this movie.Nothing about this movie works:-the editing was so poorly executed that I thought my Wifi went down.-Every transition is just a fade to black as if it was made for TV in the 70's-The writing feels like a flower child wanted to write about his inner workings, but was too pretentious, high, and incompetent that it comes off as such. Any symbolism or spiritual undertones are so incredibly flat and obvious that it's ridiculous to even be labeled as 'cerebral' on Netflix.-the acting (aside from the young Depp) was so poor that it felt like a soap opera. everything from the stuck up, angry old man in his office, to the stereotyped Indian cut-outs to the shoot-out at the very end of the movie that made me burst out laughing at how lazy, stupid, and melodramatic it was.-there's no reason to film in black and white, nothing else was ever attended to in cinematography because it looked semi-artsy enough to hold over a regular audience without making anything original or coherent.-every act of violence in this movie appears to be baby's first SFX, the man's head getting crushed looked like f***ing clay. the child getting hit with a rifle didn't even come close to contact. The makeup of Depp's face looks like it was made of crayola wax.Don't watch this movie unless you have a hard-on for style over substance. but even then, there is no style to this movie, it's garbage. the only way this kind of laziness could be accepted is if it was made in the 30's. This came out the same year as Braveheart, 12 Monkeys, Heat, Se7en, and The Usual Suspects...This is 2 hours of your life that not only will you not get back, but they will be forced out of you like a f***ing laxative.