joecoby45 Slow West is most definitely a slow burn, with slim to no backstory for any of its characters. Making it feel shallow and pointless. Like why am I supposed to care about anyone in this film if I don't know them? The actors do the best with what they are given, but they are given practically nothing.

sergicaballeroalsina Slow West is a kind of brand new werstern that takes place in a beautiful landscape without precedents. This is an epic journey of a naive hero who goes through dummy but lovely situations which could remind you of Alice's Wonderland because its psychedelia and its moments of intoxication. A bitter-ending amateur odyssey plenty of charming beauty so far away from the cliches of the genre. Is this iconoclastic and cool tragedy the last of the acid westerns?

aaronmorgan-28895 "Slow West" kinda disappointed me. From first till last it's calm, cool and collected and the cinematography was very fresh and original but it it means nothing and totally lives up to its title. The lack of any real dramatic incident left me indifferent to where events are heading but did the Brits making this movie not realize these were actual people American viewers would recognize? In some scenes we see "Wanted" posters with the faces of real-life 19th century Americans such as Robert E. Lee. The back story doesn't answer questions like why the girl is an outlaw or how the boy knew how to find her, and how he got from Scotland to America considering his youth and lack of funds. Would a real 19th century bad-ass really shave a young man. It's one poky Western, on a death march to a pointless ending without actually saying much of anything except that things were very dangerous in the olden days

Tweekums This film, set in 1870, follows sixteen year old Jay Cavendish who has left his native his native Scotland to find his beloved Rose who is now living in the American West. When we meet him he is in the west and shortly afterwards meets Silas, a bounty hunter who agrees to take him to Rose. It soon becomes apparent that Silas has other reasons for wanting to find Rose; she and her father have a bounty on their heads for the murder of Jay's wealthy uncle back in Scotland. As the pair progress west it soon becomes apparent that other bounty hunters are heading the same way and just about everybody we see is dangerous in some way. As our protagonists and various bounty hunters approach the remote cabin where Rose and her father now live a violent ending seems inevitable; the only real question is who will survive?Anybody expecting a classic western where the heroes are good and the villains are bad will be in for a bit of a surprise; this doesn't romanticise the old west; it shows it as a dangerous place where nobody is really good. Early on we see Jay shoot a woman who was pointing a gun at Silas in a trading post then leave her two young children with nobody to care for them. We later see that the supposed villains have taken then in. Knowing that Silas is after the bounty on Rose means we never know if he can be trusted not to turn on Silas at some point. While there are several characters this is mainly about Jay and Silas; Kodi Smit-McPhee and Michael Fassbender both impress in these roles. There isn't much in the way of gore but there are some shocking moments; none more so than the finale when everybody converges on Rose's cabin. The action may be set in the American west but was filmed in far-off New Zealand… something I suspect most viewers won't notice; I just noticed how beautiful it all looked. Writer/director does a fine job keeping the action taut and doesn't stretch the material too far… at only eighty minutes is distinctly short but making it longer would probably have just meant padding it with unnecessary material… and sometimes one only has time for a short film! Overall I enjoyed this more than expected.