Synopsis
A suicidal artist goes into the desert, where he finds his doppelgänger, a homicidal drifter.
2015 Directed by William Monahan
A suicidal artist goes into the desert, where he finds his doppelgänger, a homicidal drifter.
Garrett Hedlund Oscar Isaac Louise Bourgoin Walton Goggins Mark Wahlberg Dania Ramírez Fran Kranz Matt Jones Anna Margaret Hollyman Del Zamora Christopher Neiman Ashwin Gore Tim Soergel Kylie Rogers Frank Miranda Maria Olsen Ellen Ho Sterling K. Brown Vivis Colombetti Hayley Magnus Cass Buggé Karen E. Wright Grace Savage Ron Duncan Niall Madden Elizabeth Florer Adam Villacin Ervin Ross Cindy Clark Show All…
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Take a shot every time Oscar Isaac says 'brother' and before ya know it you'll be dead and won't have to finish this poor excuse for a movie!
Not even Oscar Isaac's pink speedo can save this movie that's pretty much a freshman student film's midterm writing assignment brought to life.
basically entourage by way of cormac mccarthy or the hitcher lol, with all the inherent goofiness & pretension that comes with that. "which one of us is the sociopath, brother... are you still in touch with anybody not useful?" you think william monahan had a bad industry experience or what?
Inane, aimless, and incredibly incompetent. Mojave features two highly talented leads that are unfortunately given two card board cut-outs of characters that are about as interesting as watching a blank screen for an hour and a half. The movie is muddily directed leading to a lot of confusing transitions and story choices and has more endings than a movie should. Mark Wahlberg, although completely wasted, was pretty funny in his small role, but then again, unintentionally, so was Oscar Isaac (That accent...). The later is so much better than the completely boring and uneventful script he was given for this. Fairly disappointed by Mojave
So this ins't a review about this movie but an experience working on the film.
I was sent to the desert to convince people in a certain area to let filming take place in their neighborhood.
So I get off a highway onto a dirt road and my printed out map(I didn't have a smartphone when they filmed this thing 2 years ago) says I've got 15 more miles to go to get to the destination. About 10 miles in I look down at my gas gauge and realize that I'm basically on empty, and am supremely fucked. I'm in the middle of nowhere and have no cell phone service, it's the middle of June and hot as hell.
So…
This is actually dumber than that time Bret Easton Ellis was the main character in a Bret Easton Ellis novel. May actually break the internet's infatuation with Oscar Isaac.
Did Max Landis write this under a pseudonym?
I'd rather be lost in the Mojave Desert without a canteen then ever watch this sludge bucket again. Even Oscar Issac and Mark Walhberg can't make up for how utterly talentless Garrett Hedlund is. Between this and The Gambler I hope William Monahan never works again.
Two very talented and attractive actors mooch around in a desert and call each other 'brother' a lot. The tension in the film is never really built up properly, just goes from zero to sixty, nor are the characters fully developed, and so it's a mystery what drives them. In a mis-directed film the intensity with which Hedlund and Isaac play makes them look like ridiculous caricatures. It's a disservice to two excellent actors, and a script with potential. This could have been 'Ex Machina' in a desert, come to think of it, with ruminations on good and evil in man instead of artifical intelligence, but it's just a bit silly now.