Sloooooooooooow

Rating: 2/10 (4 February 2013)

There are movies your forget immediately after watching them. I kept forgetting what was going on in this movie every 10 minutes. I really don't blame the director for this exercise in the spectacle of drying paint, but the producer. When Hollywood operated as a dream factory and not an outlet for overpriced artisan craft goods, the producer would exercise his (rarely her) authority as audience advocate and insist on discernible plot development, characters you could tell apart, and some action that built to a climax in 90 minutes or less. No, we get to watch every precious frame that the director could not bear to cut. Every so often, people predict the revival of the western as a genre. I assure you that 2007 wasn't the year that that happened.