There's more to the story than meets the bull's eye in Slow West, a brainy and genre-defying western by newcomer John Maclean.
Slow West
Wanted Dead or Dead
2015 · 1h 24m · R
Action, Drama, Thriller, Western
Directed by
John Maclean
Overview
In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
It's all of 84 minutes. But when it's done, you know you've seen something.
Writer-director John Maclean insists at every opportunity that the American west teemed with brutality and that every positive myth about the region was built on a lie, yet he doesn't deliver this familiar revisionist history with much force.
Maclean's film is a wonderfully dreamy, if meandering, take on the western. Like all movies that use their fantastic surroundings, Slow West is best seen on a big screen.
The story builds to an ironic anticlimax that few of the films that inspired this one would embrace.
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