Dead Man's Burden

The only good thing about this movie are the filming locations. Otherwise don't waste your time. Love the Ghost ranch Abiquiu filming location, drive through there a few times a year, on our way to Pagosa Springs. Stop a couple of miles north of there to let the dogs go potty! (road to the Christ in the desert Monastery). Someone actually called it a "deep, thought provoking, passionate film!" Wow.

Sucks. Love the scenery. Movie is depressing, but lacks the other components to make it even into halfway decent movie otherwise. Don't recommend watching it.

The camera work is good. The storyline is not bad but the acting is pretty bland. The movie just goes along and you don't really have any interest in who lives or who dies because none of the actors really are much of anything but just there.

Something different here. Story flows along not always in an expected direction. Directing and acting above average.

I, personally, love slow burners like this one - with beautiful western scenery, long single- take shots, and interesting and attractive characters. I agree with nearly everything already mentioned in the previous reviews so won't repeat all that here. Save to say I felt the dialog, and this the film, was spoiled by Martha's mumbling! I had to turn on the sub-titles to understand what Clare Bowen was saying as she truly is one of the world's greatest mumblers. (Even in Nashville I have difficulty understanding her.) And even the sub-title writer must have had problems, because quite often in Martha's speech it would just say "inaudible". That said it is a beautiful western! And we don't see too many of them around these days.