Dead Man

we really enjoyed this film, only came by it via u tube and neil young. very atmospheric, good in black and white and all the acting very good. would watch again as there was a lot going on. I also like marmite!!!!!!!!!!!!

Photography is splendid in places Overall not an entertaining movie at all. Characters are monotype and used to extend the journey of the main character in an ineffective way. Dialogue is wandering and very restrained It is not believable in any sense and if it aims to touch upon the super-natural aspect the leads are so vague to simply confuse

One review I read said 'bound to be a marmite film' wasn't wrong. I did manage to watch it all the way through but in three goes! I admit, I persevered only because Johnny Depp starred. It was the music which put me off to be honest. It droned on and on and on...you get my drift.

Not a bad film it's just not really up my street.

Best western movie I've ever seem, while maybe the most accurate character assessment of the American gun slinging fore fathers. The ancestors don't have Indian's or unknown faces in their towns to point their beloved guns at, know it's black men, terrorists, commie's or some guy who's told them that ownership of guns is dangerous. However progress has been made, which is evident in this beautifully atmospheric picture with it's bizarre characters within a brilliantly created surreal world. Certainly a nightmarish world, of barbaric predatory men, a cannibal, disillusioned insane clergy, weird forest people, a black cowboy for quirks and a brilliant indian called Nobody, hunting for tobacco and a spirit to guide him. I'll rate this a 5, it's hilarious, surreal while the wild west was full of animals and odd balls in drab towns, no?

its B & W, wonderful cinematography, the films score by Neil Young is both brilliant and more up in your face than you might expect. The cast has big names though most other than Depp are almost walk on roles.

So lots of style you may think - no substance. Except that this film probably gives you an idea of what the west was really like than almost any other - the train sequence where passengers dress, behaviour alters and the action outside the train windows change the further from civilisation the train moves is a must see in itself.

Its not an easy film - that the veneer of civilised behaviour is shown to be so thin - that just about any white character seems almost beyond redemption. Its not just because there are a few jokes in cree or blackfoot that this is one of the few westerns an Indian could watch and feel both superior and proud.

How many cannibalistic or cross dressing gunslingers there might actually have been in reality is moot! - the choice between staying in a town, and having to follow the rules of whoever had set themselves up as town boss or seeking freedom outside but knowing that any meeting with any stranger could be a life or death event (who knows that freedoms they craved that had caused them to do the same?)

So its an Elegy, or an admission and apology in hindsight for how the west was won. Give it a chance and it will haunt you much the way Dont Look Now does