This is a bizarre story of a collection of very strange people in swamp land. A reporter (McConaughey) and his brother (Efron) help exonerate a man (Cusack) for killing a sheriff.
Nicole Kidman tests her acting ability and is quite convincing as a self destructive white trash who falls in love with the prisoner (John Cusack). She's got the dialog and body language down and looks very different from her usual ladylike sophisticated self.
Poor Matthew McConaughey, uglied up, raped beaten maimed and finally throat cut.
Zaf Efron looks quite convincingly lovesick as the totally whipped guy in love with Kidman's character. What an idiot his character is causing the death of his brother.
Still don't understand the point of freeing Cusack so he could murder.
A major directing and screenplay flaw is that some plot elements are revealed in heavily accented dialog which is hard to follow.
To cap this often senseless story is a lush 60s European style film score that is quite inappropriately beautiful.
Watch it if you are a fan of the stars but be prepared it's way out there.
Nicole Kidman tests her acting ability and is quite convincing as a self destructive white trash who falls in love with the prisoner (John Cusack). She's got the dialog and body language down and looks very different from her usual ladylike sophisticated self.
Poor Matthew McConaughey, uglied up, raped beaten maimed and finally throat cut.
Zaf Efron looks quite convincingly lovesick as the totally whipped guy in love with Kidman's character. What an idiot his character is causing the death of his brother.
Still don't understand the point of freeing Cusack so he could murder.
A major directing and screenplay flaw is that some plot elements are revealed in heavily accented dialog which is hard to follow.
To cap this often senseless story is a lush 60s European style film score that is quite inappropriately beautiful.
Watch it if you are a fan of the stars but be prepared it's way out there.