Unpredictable, but not all that captivating

Rating: 8/10 (27 September 2008)

The actors play great, the casting is appropriate and the direction flawless. There is no soundtrack. To me it felt like someone wanted to make a movie that felt real, and so it did. It is hard for me to comment on it without revealing the best part, the thing that one understands only after watching the whole movie.
I don't understand why they had to cast Kelly Macdonald (a Scottish actress) as a Texan wife with an Ukrainian mother :)
There are people that did not like this movie, and I can understand why. No special effects, no soundtrack to tell you how to feel, lots of dead people, but only for a few do we see how they die, and the only thing to be learned from it is that nothing goes as you want in real life. It was a bit slow at times, too. But it was worth it for the atmosphere and the general effect.
Bottom line: This is not of those movies you watch a little at the start and a little at the end and you don't miss anything, it has an overall thing that must be experienced. A real movie, in a multitude of senses. However, movies are not made "real" for a reason. Most people don't want real when going to the cinema.