Don't Come Knocking on DVD (2005)

Disappointing

GreenwichPaul [Highly rated reviewer] , 11/12/2006

With a stellar cast and the prospect of Wenders and Shepard working together again I expected this to be one of my films of the year. But, I have to admit that this is far from perfect.

So, what went wrong? Maybe it is the ill-judged comedy (especially Roth's irritating performance) or Shepard's less than heartfelt script. Wenders' direction is partly to blame as well as he seems unsure where to go with the film.

What should have have been a fascinating deconstruction of the myths of the West, of Hollywood and of the male psyche is a flawed but interesting piece. This film should have been as monumental as the Utah scenery that opens the film but instead we are given mere hints of what could have been

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Is this a joke?

Jane from Somerset , 28/09/2006

Actor leaves film set and goes home after many years of absence. ............................................... Yes? And?

So he may have fathered a child - whoopy doo.

Stories don't have to be dense or complicated but they have to be present in at least a simple form. This film has one pointless scene after another. As an actor Sam Shephard isn't a forceful presence and flounders in this sea of obfuscated nothingness. Of course he's also the co-writer and a great playwright. However his plays are conversation-laden and aren't heavy on plot so the combination of his writing and Wim Wenders' direction is asking for slow suffocation. At least in Paris Texas there were questions that kept you hanging in there - where was his wife? What happened to him in the desert? But with this cowboy the big question is - who cares?

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THIS FILM SHOULD HAVE BEEN SEEN IN CIMEMAS

A customer from Great Britain , 22/12/2006

Why do The Film Industry allow films like this to be just left as a DVD or Video.

the years that it took to raise the capitol ro make one of the finest fiilms of a man a who had gone through his life wearing blinkers

A total masterpiece

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An easy ride

Kermode from Aberdare [Highly rated reviewer] , 27/10/2006

Enjoyable independant film

with the always excellent Sam

Shepard who goes off in search of himself and his past with mixed results

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