I rarely trash a film, as I understand that a lot of effort goes into making one. A lot of hopes and dreams. But If I could give this 0 stars, I would. Awful about sums it up. Not quite like true trash, like a bad porno movie, but awful because they just should have realized there was a script that didn't work, before shooting. The pretext that this is drama worth paying for is what dooms this to 1 star. Really, don't bother to spend 2 hours watching this. Both my wife and I, who have very different tastes, both hated it. We watched it for two hours waiting for something to happen. Nothing did. The scenery is OK. Camera-work is OK. I ended up fast forwarding through the last 30 minutes, looking for a plot twist to justify backing up and watching it. None came. No Spoiler needed, as there's plot device to spoil.. The ending isn't even worth waiting for. It's beyond me why the producer's wasted their money on such a nothing script. The acting is fine, for what the actors were given to work with. That the director has the gumption to put his name right after the end of the movie, as the first credit, is quite astonishing. I think I would have buried it below the horse wrangler. The action is non existent, the plot flounders around and doesn't make any sense. Again. Don't bother with this.
Review of Meek's Cutoff
