VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Steineded How sad is this?

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Tina Willis This was an unusual mix of post apocalyptic, sci-fi, western drama. How many movies can you say THAT about? And I liked it. A lot. This isn't a typical strait forward JUST post apocalyptic/dystopian, or JUST Sci-fi movie and fans of these particular genres may be quite disappointed in this film. I suppose this movie isn't for every one, but in reading my review I believe you will get a good idea, (without any spoilers)if it is a type of film you may enjoy.Like all good movies, IMHO, the focus is not on the setting but rather the characters humanness and how they react and feel in outrageous and/or unusual, difficult situations. The acting was top notch good to excellent. I have liked everything Michael Shannon has done and became a new fan of Kodi Smit-McPhee, the actor that played Jerome. The story was character driven, which allowed me to fairly quickly care about the characters. There is a lot of dialogue and just a bit of action, so again action loving viewers, may be disappointed.The cinematography was wonderful! It really set the tone for a dry and hot waste-land. I didn't notice the editing, which means the editor did his/her job. The special effects EXCELLENT. The camera use was good in that it gave us a variety of different types of shots and angels (zoom in close-ups like the old westerns) and interestingly, red- and black outs, fade in and outs, etc. The score was noticeably good and in some places excellent.Within 40 minutes the movie had taken directions I didn't see coming. The second half of the movie was paced more quickly and the twists and turns along with the tension started building, becoming for a short while a psychological thriller. This film showcases full realistic characters that develop and change around a story about Guilt, Greed, Blame, Betrayal, Murder, and Revenge, in an unusual setting. What's not to love about that? Although I would ordinarily rate this a 7 (that's HIGH for me) I am going to rate this a 9 to help bring up the score. Perhaps that will draw some viewers like me, who will better appreciate this movie.

david-fernandez Looks great, the world is broken, water is scarce and agriculture is in serious decline and subsistence farming is the order of the day. A slightly dysfunctional head of the family ... farmer is holding it together, the mule doing the leg work dies so he buys a Google pack mule and his daughters semi secret lover kills him and oh who cares ... the plot is a glorious mess, just like the narrative / editing but I sort of liked it, I would rather by annoyed at a movie than be bored and I was very annoyed with this movie because of the lack of drama but I liked it.... explain that to me...... someone ??? ... please !The main cast do a good enough job Holt, Shannon, Fanning and Fanning's kid brother but maybe Holt needed to be more cunning, manipulative like the main oil man in movie Let There Be Blood.

josh-08334 There's this one bit where the mechanical cowboy dealer gets all philosophical and attempted an argument for repeating our mistakes rather than risking the potentially worse circumstances that change could bring...and in a way that was a description of the entire movie: they tried doing something different than the usual Hollywood bullshit and it ended up being far worse.There was no director in the credits because I watched the director's cut where he edited his name out. Literally no one wants responsibility for this film.I invited friends around to watch it with me because the trailer looked good, they are no longer my friends.

gavin6942 Set in the future when water is hard to find a teenage boy sets out to protect his family and survive.In a small way, this works as a companion piece to "Interstellar". Both are futuristic, science fiction movies that address a world consumed by drought. And both were released in 2014. That may be just about the only overlap, but it makes them a nice pair, and also makes me want to watch "Dune".Somehow, though, this film never really grabs your attention. Elle Fanning is decent, and Kodi Smit-McPhee is a good actor (and a nice guy). Maybe this needed more Michael Shannon? He is, of course, among the best actors in the business today.