Low (2008) User Reviews

"Midnight Cowboy" with Sonny Liston and Chet Baker by way of David Lynch...

[Monkhead · 10/10 · 23 March 2008]

That's the Hollywood pitch for this strange-o flick, meaning this movie is definitely not a Hollywood movie. It's done for pretty cheap (you can sometimes tell this and sometimes it looks like it has a budget?!) but there's some really good work in this movie from the actors in it. And it's got a nice groove once it gets going.

I guess even though Nixon is sorta in the background of this movie's lost desert weekend, the ex-president's woes seem just as tragic as the Boxer (Rhomeyn Johnson) and Musician's (Rob Arbogast). Their weird, funny, and troubled vibe is one of the main reasons to see this.

There are no big names in this either, but maybe that's okay in the end since nobody in this has any baggage to ruin it. It makes it feel more real.

A dark/funny/quirky 70's style 'Road Trip' movie

[djt80918 · 10/10 · 27 March 2008]

It isn't Hope and Crosby. Not Wilder and Pryor. But if a dark, strange and ironic 70's style journey into the personal hell of two very touching characters is your bag, it's entirely happening with LOW. I loved this movie. It has it all. And with just enough subtle humor to keep it all engrossing.

One of the best things about this film is the complete unpredictability of the plot and the actions of the characters. I became completely lost in that 'rabbit hole' feeling -- that these two men are destined for something unexpected, perhaps insane, and inevitably dangerous.

I just saw the DVD version of 'No Country for Old Men' and this film has that sort of compelling, fateful quality to it. You feel, after the story has completely sucked you in, that you are there with these men, trapped in this desperate world where anything can happen but won't (or will it?), where something good is around the next corner but there are no street signs to guide you to it.

This film is a must-see. Can't wait for it to come out on DVD!!!