Nayo Aragón
7May12
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Elder Green
12May12
Frequently hilarious, and one of the best and most realistic portrayals of mental illness I've ever seen. It's poorly shot, and has some idiotic moments, but it's Herzog's best American film.
JOE
11Mar12
My favorite moments were the two times that the action was put on hold and the characters on screen just stared forward, not even into the camera, inexplicably and expressionlessly gazing towards the audience. So good. This is a maddeningly great film from Herzog.
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H. Paul Moon
27Mar12
That was hilariously awful. One of them flinches and glances away toward the end of the shot, clearly communicating with his body language, "Are you serious? WTF?"
T.J. Gossard
4Mar12
Some horrible acting, some great cinematography, an awkward balance of bad and incredible in every area, really, that makes it in the end a sort of "Eh" movie.
willythesalesman
2Mar12
unconventional look at a slow descent to madness where some actions become reasonable.
Michael Convery
13Jan12
Whether to viewers who are familiar with crime dramas or classic Herzog films, every scene causes a sense of the uncanny.
Joel
31Jul11
Strange in a very self-confident way. As much as I prefer the earlier works and documentaries of Herzog's there's something wonderful about the way he goes about making deceptively unique films. A few scenes like the marketplace in china were a haunting Herzogian image. The soundtrack I still feel was the strongest asset for me.
Ace Craven
15Jul11
Herzog you sick SOB. One man's freefall into madness. Kooky and bizarre yet beautiful and relatable. Where the hell do you even find a story like this -so plain yet nuts. The cinematography and the score are flat out brilliant. Herzog is a natural painter of light. We simply float, without consequence, down the river towards the beautiful mad nothing.
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Ben Wheeler
15Jul11
Michael Shannon is the best...glad you watched with ridiculous semi-true story. How'd you like the footage with all the mountain people with the camera mounted onto M. Shannon? I don't think there was a permit for that....
Bill Arceneaux
3Jul11
Why is everybody staring at you? It's because they're puzzled, Brad. You puzzle them.
Didar Merve
23Jun11
When I saw the dwarf and flamingos, I shouted "David Lynch, indeed!". Cast was glorious however Werner Herzog's classic dark and dreary South American lunatic story... I don't know why but this one was a little bit worse than my expectation too.
BrianFromConcentrate
6Feb11
I can see why this film received such mixed reviews. I happened to enjoy it. The narrative structure is definitely not common and could easily make you uncomfortable. The aspect of the film that would probably throw most people off is the score. It is so odd and ominous. The tone they chose to set throughout really makes this a film worth watching...even just to see something different. Michael Shannon is always good
Eirik Smidesang Slåen
24Jan11
Herzog fails trying to create his own version of David Lynch's world. It's poorly executed on every level, particulary the acing which is dreadful. A disappointment.
Christopher Smith
5Jan11
Why did Werner Herzog make a David Lynch film? Not that I'm complaining, since this is a darkly comic surrealist masterpiece packed with superb whacked-out performances from a stellar cast. Clearly not for all tastes, but for those with a deep love of dark absurdism, a pure joy.
In An Expression Of The Inexpressible
12Dec10
It could be really good, but it just stays on one level - it shows the world of the insane that are the product of an unhealthy, sick family, but does that in a straigt line, nothing really to interprete there. Maybe the little simbolic hints, that are actually just telling what has been told already.
Kerem Soyyılmaz
21Oct10
Girlfriend character is not good, the connection between the myth and the real life could be underlined. I think Herzog could not direct the actors well in this film. I am surprised.
Tony Pauletto
14Oct10
Minus a few exceptions, this visual art project is weakly acted and poorly made. The biggest surprise of all, however, is that it's also largely uninteresting.
Joseph Sylvers
7Oct10
Nothing to do with Lynch except digital cameras, everything to do with Herzog, and esctatic truth, dreaminess, globe trecking naturalism, poetry and bold commanding performances. One of Herzog's best, and a return to his early films more ferocious sense of humor, ironic editing, and absurd lyricism.
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