Dark Country

Um thriller surreal que não deixa o espetador aproximar-se dos personagens devido à sua sobre-coloração visual e sensual sobre-halucinogenicidade (música jazz fleumática) e aborrece o espetador a maior parte do tempo com vários clichés (e irritantes argumentos recém-casados), apenas para dar um golpe no final com uma intrigante e inexplicável reviravolta no estilo de Lynch. Como uma tese dum estudante da escola de filme teria sido uma bomba; como a estreia na realização de um filme B de um conhecido ator americano, é meramente possível de passar. De qualquer forma, não pertence aos cinemas e o 3D é uma piada muito má. (14/01/2011)

An insane road trip through the desert obviously filmed for just a few bucks. The atmosphere is a weird blend of film noir and mysterious thriller in a 3D obviously-digital mess that is so distinctive that it had to be the intention. Tom Jane deserves a prize just for being able to get something like this into the movie theaters. And I still don’t get why 3D occurred to him. Country definitely has its moments and is crowned with a Lynch-style WTF kind of an ending, which I had a feeling would be coming right from the beginning, but I still found it hard to believe that it might happen in this movie. - Was it him or not? - Maybe. - Maybe? - I don’t know, maybe. Hard to say, when the guy didn’t have a face. (02/02/2011)

Someone probably took some inspiration from David Lynch, but at the same time tried to make a noir film. It turned into something that could be clever - at least it pretends to be - and artistic, but ultimately, it's just a banal story that likes to play with darkness, of which there's plenty here. (31/10/2016)