Jarmusch's strange western is a film I'd been meaning to see for a long time, mostly because a friend of mine worships it and spent more time bugging me to watch this one than anything else. With roughly a year of hype come high expectations and while I was completely caught off guard by the nature of the movie it certainly lived up to them. It's my first Jarmusch film and as such I wasn't sure what to expect stylistically,…

Hearing that this was a Jim Jarmusch directed, black and white surrealist revisionist western starring 90s Johnny Depp, my expectations were that this would be either the best, or the worst, film of all time. It is neither of those things.

Its a partly comic, partly spiritual, unconventional little film, and whilst the mixed critical response is unsurprising, there is a lot here to like, and if that one line premise outlined just above isn’t enough to pique even a…

Jim Jarmusch specializes in the odd and offbeat, and Dead Man is nothing if not those two things. An existential Western, beautifully filmed as some sort of dream or nightmare, it finds humble accountant William Blake (not the poet...or is he?) forced to confront his baser instincts on a voyage to his end. The film's atmosphere is one of dread, with Jarmusch's bizarre sense of humor frequently popping up to make you scratch your head or laugh out loud, often…

Impressive cast with two great leads. Unfortunately, they couldn't save this movie for me.

I also understand the story and symbolism and even like them a lot. My problems are with the way the movie is made.

The cinematography is uninspired and boring. I'm a black and white photography junky and this did nothing for me.

The Neil Young guitar score is too loud and heavy handed and only works some of the time. Mostly it seems out of place…