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Road to Paloma

On the road. On the run.

2014 · 1h 31m · R Drama, Thriller
Directed by Jason Momoa

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Overview

While Native American Wolf is being pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own hands, when his mother was raped and killed on their reservation he crosses paths with Cash, a down and out musician who is coping with the end of his marriage. An unlikely friendship develops, as they ride together towards the Teton mountain range, where Wolf will spread his mothers ashes.

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All reviews
54%
Tomatometer
Fresh

An effective throwback to the loose-limbed, my-way-or-the-highway road movies of the "Easy Rider" era.

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

None of this is riveting, but the film's loose naturalism and strong acting - Chris Browning, as a liaison between the F.B.I. and the reservation, is especially enjoyable - are slyly seductive.

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Fresh

Momoa makes much of it work through sheer force of will as Wolf, a chopper-riding Native American hunted by venal lawmen and seeking his mother's killer.

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
Rotten

Road To Paloma features perhaps the most motorcycle-riding footage of any actor-directed vanity project since The Brown Bunny.

Jesse Hassenger, AV Club
Rotten

This film is numbingly dull, an outlaw-on-the-run saga as laconic and slow-moving as its fierce, hirsute protagonist.

Sam Weisberg, Village Voice

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