Undertow on DVD (2004)

Average rating: 51%

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4 Critics reviews
20 Members reviews

Starring:	Jamie Bell, Dermot Mulroney, Joshua Lucas, Devon Allen, Eddie Rouse, Shiri Appleby, Bill McKinney, Kristen Stewart, Robert Longstreet, Terry Loughlin, Mark Darby Robinson, Michael Bacall
Director:	David Gordon Green
Studio:	UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK
Run time:	108 mins
Certificate:
User collections:	Some of the best of 2004
Genres:	Action/Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Languages:	English
Hearing-impaired:	English
Released:	15/05/2006

Brief synopsis of Undertow

Chris Munn (Jamie Bell) is a troubled teenager who can't seem to stay out of trouble. His hard-nosed father, John (Dermot Mulroney), and younger brother, Tim (newcomer Devon Alan), are his only companions. But when John's long-lost brother Deel (Josh Lucas) shows up for a reunion of sorts, the past comes back to haunt everyone...

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Critics Reviews

Sight and Sound

Green seems to harbor a very personal love of cinema, and appears to be interested primarily in manifesting inspired moments that lie dormant in his actors and settings.

Uncut

Director David Gordon Green effectively expands his range here with a muddy, bloody, Terrence Malick-produced rural thriller.

Los Angeles Times

David Gordon Green remains the compelling filmmaker of his distinctive first feature, GEORGE WASHINGTON

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Updating the American Gothic

GreenwichPaul [Highly rated reviewer] , 25/05/2006

Undertow is a fascinating if flawed film that retreads the same ground as the classic 'Night of the Hunter'.

Slow paced and a step removed from reality this has echoes of producer Terence Malick's magnificent 'Badlands' with it langorous atmosphere and detached voiceover.

Ultimately the film never hits the same heights as either of the aforementioned films but it is brave enough to aspire to meaningfulness and is, in its own rights, an enjoyable film.

Director Green populates his film with redneck gothic and unrealistic poetic dialogue so there is plenty here for fans of American though less for a mainstream audience

Intriguing

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Cut and Shut

DivaDebs from Berwickshire [Highly rated reviewer] , 15/06/2006

This film starts out so well. The photography is beautiful and atmospheric. The acting is good (Jamie Bell's accent is perfect) and the storyline has great potential... then... well, I think the writer must have gone off on holiday and left the second half of the film to the Tea Boy to write.

The storyline stumbles from one scene to the next, and I lost all empathy for the characters, not really caring what happened next.

To me, it was a 'cut and shut' movie. The first half - an interesting movie with potential and the second half a completely different movie with no point and little flair.

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