WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

AxelVanHorn I have never in my life seen such a dull plot. They writer and director in that occasion, must have stolen all the movies he liked and yet created something boring. Who produce this movies? I understand the caliber of the actors playing in it, but why people spend money making these junks? The story seems fake from start to end, this damn suitcase is empty when the actors hold it The movie fails even for the obvious, to make you interested what the hell is in the suitcase.The guy is a low life, who has sex ideas coming out of nowhere and getting horny for every chick around. Even the masturbation reference is given in such an amateur way from the writer slash director.If you suffer insomnia, watch 30 minutes of that. On extreme cases take a lethal dose of 1 hour. If by accident or force you watch the whole flick, you will be in a comma, for several years, so make sure you live a note behind for the people who love you. I want a refund for my viewing time.

Bruce Coulson The movie is quirky; if you prefer straight-forward action adventure plots, comedies, or social commentary, you'll soon be lost. The Big Empty leaves a lot to the viewer; in the end, it's up to the audience to determine exactly what happened, and why. John Favreau is sent on a journey that, like many things in life, takes him places he never expected. The cast makes all of the eccentric characters believable, and somehow you forget that it's 'just a movie'. Lots of interesting plot twists that all make sense in the end. Is it science fiction, fantasy, film noir conspiracy? Well, The Big Empty is all of those; and more. Or maybe none of those; like I said, the audience gets to decide. The DVD includes deleted scenes, director's commentary, and several other extras. The soundtrack by Brian Tyler is almost good enough to justify the entire movie. The Big Empty may not be a film that makes a lot of money, but it's clear it was a lot of fun to make.

panicoma-1 Favreau finds the pick of the bunch almost every time. Beautiful little movie injecting a barb of synchronicity for me this day when I had just finished reading Fear & Loathing in LA, centring very much around the Mint 400 desert race. The echo of Thompson's warning about bad deeds and dudes abroad among the dunes is still ringing in my ears as everyman John Person slips into Hitchcockian situation through desperate need for daily bread. Bud Cort in neck-brace tells you this is going to be a rocky ride for the Fav, but this is a buddy movie, YOU are the buddy! Peppered with Daryl Hannah doing great business as a security role for offbeat actors and characterisations, the near genius Jon Gries (Napoleon Dynamite's stand-out Uncle Rico), and the jarring but subtly successful casting of Sean Bean as the Man in Black. This film experience is studded with the sort of scenes and shots everyone wants to make. The overall uplift comes from knowing that someone can still make this sort of Art in the land of Cine-cism.Many thanks to Steve Anderson who wrote and directed this gem, he made my evening with a graceful, poised and elegant look at the American Heart and its place among the human coyotes who feed upon it.

scfaulkner I've just read a slew of reviews of this film. People really hate this movie and to be honest, I don't understand why. In The Big Empty, Jon Favreau plays an out of work actor who is hired/blackmailed by his landlord/neighbor (Bud Cort, aka Harold, of Harold and Maude) to deliver a briefcase to a Cowboy in the wastelands of Central California. He is reluctant, but has nothing better to do. He heads out, leaving Joey Lauren Adams in a neighboring apartment without any shoes. As he wanders through a stark, Bakersfieldian landscape seeking solace, and a violent Englishman in full-agg-hetero cowboy regalia, he is accosted by eldritch horrors, unspeakable fornications, vicious chainsaw wielding savages, and Frasier's Kelsey Grammar. Eventually, the weirdness stacks up until his disturbingly over-sized head is viciously exploded and his torso becomes a giant bowling ball. ...wait, that's not right. It's close though. This movie IS quirky and original. Don't let the naysayers fool you with their saying of nay. In this fine piece of cinema we encounter many elements that we've seen before, but they are cobbled together into a funny and cruel shoeful of surrealist whackiness. I laughed and was temporarily dumbstuck by the shear unpredictability of it all. The cast does a fine job, and should be given waffles and fine international syrups. If you're the type of person who is afraid of movies that you can't figure out in the first five minutes (or at all), go back to the DaVinci Code. You are not ready. --S.Casey Faulkner