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Rating:  - "FUNKY PRETTY"
If you liked PAPER MOON, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, ERASERHEAD, LONESOME DOVE, PLEASANTVILLE, this deserves a big look-see. You may or may not want to look past the gratuitous bloodshead and concentrate on the cinematography, characters and the story--the fragility of life for those souls who traversed our frontier. Yet they all had a place, a part to play for us to be here today. And the message of the Indian, Nobody (played so perfectly by Farmer), the philosophy behind the journey of our spirit, our soul. Of course, it is a dreamlike fantasy, so beautifully shot, and peppered with cameos by Robert Mitchum, Billy Bob Thornton, Gabriel Byrne, to name a few. It is a masterpiece. I have never seen the contrasts between the black and white so artfully done. The facial features so genuinely displayed and acted. One to watch over and over again. Depp at his best in another "artist's movie." The haunting guitar solos that are provided by Neil Young are otherworldy and perfectly synchronized for an experience of the senses.
Rating: - A renowned masterwork!
Dead man constitutes a golden cinematographic jewel in all senses. Not only because it develops a mesmerizing and mature script, but besides carves in relief the vital importance of the author's cinema's genre, so overlooked for many people but that must survive in order to point the several directions of the lucid conscious iof any honest artist.
Depp is wounded man who must escape from both bounty hunters. One can not let to associate a mite of Wender and Italian Neo realism's influences around this existential journey where he will meet a cast of unthinkable personages along the way that conform a social puzzle that are not kept in mind due its small relevance.
A wonderful masterpiece.
Rating: - Go Johnny Depp!
This is an interesting legend, a somewhat confusing at times mystery which will make you laugh or make you sad, although you must watch it completely from start to finish otherwise you will be totally confused. Johnny Depp was the main character in this black and white masterpiece, with co stars like Billy Bob Thorton,Gary Farmer and Crispin Glover. This movie you either love or you will hate, its worth a try none the less..
Rating: - Dead Man
Neil Young's haunting music creates the mood in this movie. A man's quest for a better life turns to havoc once he his train ride reaches the town of Machine "the end of the line". Johnny Depp is marvelous!
Rating:  - Dead in the water
As watchable as this movie is, I kept thinking while watching this Western that no Western fan would enjoy this movie.
If you love Westerns, you will probably be bored, frustrated, confused and ultimately disappointed by DEAD MAN.
If you like quirky Independent films with obscure points, talented actors reading demented dialogue as overwrought grotesques, a genre picture that is anti-genre...this movie is for you.
I liked everyone in the movie but found every character (except Johnny Depp and his goofy Native American guide) repellent and extreme. The story appears to just meander, especially when it reaches its inconclusive ending. It's not like the story just stopped...I just wondered why it was there in the first place. I had the feeling that I would have to read a very long review in Film Comment to find out what really happened since it wasn't included in the film itself.
DEAD MAN has its moments. I liked the slimy trio of killers (I laughed out loud while they all drew down on Robert Mitchum's portrait over and over just before he enters the room). There was more tension and momentum in their scenes than Johnny Depp's sleepy ride through the wilderness.
Neil Young's "soundtrack" was nearly as minimalist as the "Seinfeld" soundtrack.
If you're looking for strange and remote, this is it. If you're looking for a good Western....keep riding, Hoss.
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