Dark Country

Thriller surréaliste qui, en raison de sa coloration visuelle et de sa hallucinogénèse émotionnelle (musique de jazz flegmatique), n'immerge pas le spectateur dans les personnages et l'ennuie la plupart du temps avec différents clichés (et des disputes de jeunes mariés ennuyeuses) pour lui porter un coup intéressant, digne de Lynch et inexplicable. En tant que thèse de fin d'études d'un diplômé de l'école de cinéma de Písek, cela aurait été un succès, mais en tant que premier long métrage de réalisateur de l'acteur américain connu, cela reste seulement acceptable. En tout cas, cela ne convient pas au cinéma, et cette 3D est une très mauvaise blague. (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. (03/02/2011)

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)