Dear God, Kelly Reichardt, the director of this film, makes Terrence Malick look like John Woo. I don't think I've ever seen such an excruciatingly tedious film in my entire life.
We all know how desperately hard the lives of pioneers crossing the desert must have been, but do we really need to be shown every single second of it? All right, already -- it was rough. We get it, so let's move it along.
I should have realized what I was in for right from the start. The river crossing, showing what seemed like every single slow step the pioneers took, seemed almost like a "Monty Python" pastiche -- except it was not. This has to be the slowest sequence not shot in slow-motion that I've ever seen. Unbelievable.
Please, please do not let women direct Westerns -- they haven't the glands for it.
We all know how desperately hard the lives of pioneers crossing the desert must have been, but do we really need to be shown every single second of it? All right, already -- it was rough. We get it, so let's move it along.
I should have realized what I was in for right from the start. The river crossing, showing what seemed like every single slow step the pioneers took, seemed almost like a "Monty Python" pastiche -- except it was not. This has to be the slowest sequence not shot in slow-motion that I've ever seen. Unbelievable.
Please, please do not let women direct Westerns -- they haven't the glands for it.