Meek's Cutoff

Long, slow, boring movie. Even for somebody who loves westerns and art films, if I could get my $9.99 back, I would. ITunes won't let me enter the review nickname "boring" or "yawn" because it's already taken.

this is an unfinished movie.

Perhaps it would be cool (( Title and Credits - at the end of the film... to offer a website showing IDAHO STATE parks that remember him.)) --- it was however, a film that had laid bare, how an uncharted territory can have unexpected surprises. Honestly, felt sorry for Officer Meek... who had gone through a lot of pain as a Tour Guide to the Pacific Northwest... and however paved the way for many to come soon after that.

I took the wife to see this in the theater. Her GGGrandmother crossed this country in a covered wagon and after seeing the four star reviews in the paper I thought I would surprise her. This movie was a huge waste of time. We kept waiting for something....anything...to happen. And finally, just when something does happen, it ends. With no resolution. It just ends. The dozen of us in the movie theater turned to each other, laughed and said "really"? That was the movie? To be honest we used really bad words to describe the movie, the kind your mother told you not to use. The title of this movie is now used as a joke in my family.

Turned it off long before it was finished. We weren't ready to fall asleep yet and another 5 minutes of this boring piece of nothing would have put us over the edge. Another 10 minutes might well have led to suicide.

Don't waste your time or money. There's no plot. A bunch of actors walking around in costumes for 1.5 hours. Barely any dialogue.

We had high hopes...a western that was rated so the family could watch. We were so disappointed!! You could watch the first five minutes and the last five minutes and besides catching the Indian....nothing else happens! Watch the trailer and move on...not worth watching.

No beginning, no plot, no ending ...... Unless you like to watch wagons traverse a desolate landscape for 90 minutes and strain to listen to and find meaning in the limited dialogue this movie is NOT for you. What a colossal waste of time and I am embarrassed to say I watched the whole thing.

I think this movie was trying to convey the monotony and hardship involved in crossing the plains. They nailed the monotony. You wait 13 minutes for the first dialogue, and then you can't make it out. I swear everyone is either whispering, drowned out by the wind or in the distance. The lighting is so poor not even a lip reader could follow this train wreck. What puzzles me is someone produced this thing, watched the finished product and said "This is as good as it gets". What do you suppose was on the cutting room floor?

Dead Man this is not. This film is trying way too hard to be a brooding, existential western, but all I'll remember is excruciating silence, bad audio editing/foley, and Bruce Greenwood's ongoing Foghorn Leghorn imitation.