Dust

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Summary: Haunting realism and fantasy
Review: Knowing nothing about this movie except that I really liked the two stars and the thought of a British actor and an Australian playing cowboys was appealing, this movie really blew me away. It involved so many different layers of emotion. Especially the brutality and realism the accompanied the scenes in Macedonia and even New York. Violence hurts, something that Hollywood likes to gloss over in most movies. When you get shot it hurts, you bleed and death is painful and full of not very pretty shakes, rattles, defecation and screams. Overall this movie was about re-establishing a connection to your own humanity. You will either love or hate this movie. I personally loved it and find that it haunts me still.

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Summary: Worst movie ever doesn't begin to describe
Review: My advice to anybody considering this movie... watch paint drying for about 10 hours before you see this movie. Then it might seem quite good.

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Summary: Pretentious and arty mess.
Review: Not since the pretentious art house flicks of the 1960's have I seen such schlock parading itself as great art. Art is art. This is far from it. This film stretches credulity to the breaking point. A petty crook breaks into an elderly woman's apartment, she gets him at gunpoint, and (insanely) insists that he listen to her story about 2 brothers in Macedonia. Please. He keeps coming back for more of the story because he's trying to find out where she has hidden her money, but eventually he wants to hear more of the story. Why? The characterizations are extremely thin, and the director is so in love with jumpcuts and presenting a thickly textured background for the story that the story is lost. The ONLY reason I watched this through to the end was because I had paid for it, not because the story was at all involving. Even the Making Of documentary that comes on the DVD is skimpy. And if you want to understand the alrge amounts of dialogue that are not in English, you have to turn on the subtitles on the DVD menu. Heaven forbid that this movie make any effort to communicate with its audience.

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Summary: Well Made Film. Very Artistic
Review: This is not a film that will appeal to everyone. It is long and complicated with several plots going on at once centered around a central story. Nice imagery, beautiful settings and an interesting story all around. The dialogue is very well done, geniune, witty, and well thought out. The two plots (one which takes place in our present and one that takes place in the 1900's)relate well to each other. The main charaters in both plots are well aligned as the grow togther over the course of the movie. This is a complicated feat for any movie to pull off but the director did it flawlessly, even merging the two characters into the same plot at the end. Brilliant work of art and film making.

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Summary: junk packaged as a western
Review: This is not a true western.you may have known that,I didnt.From the trailer there is no mention to the true nature of the story.The box looks like a western,the tag line is "live by the gun, die by the gun" even the description on the back makes it sound like a possibly good western that fell to direct to video hell.It says nothing about an old dying woman in a modern day city dealing with a lowlife thug for gold coins.Even if I knew how this junk really was IT still wouldnt be any good.0 stars,just a tease. YOU WERE WARNED.

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Summary: A movie that tells the truth
Review: This movie is fantastic, espicially the scens that are set in Macedonia. I will however admit that the scenes in america were a bit boring however i still think this is a fantastic purchase.
This movie tells the story of a macedonian village that is being over run by gheg albanians, then the greeks try to take it but the ottamen turks later on show up and eventually control all of macedonia.
I am glad that this movie showed how albanian ghegs really do act, like savage brutes who rape litle boys and goats. The albanians are the scruffy looking people in white, while the greeks are portrayed as money hungry mercenaris who will sell out to anybody for the right price. They are the people in black uniforms.
A good movie that is certainly worth your time.

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Summary: What the ?
Review: This movie just sucked. Plain and simple. The story line was too jumpy and was way too hard to follow. I would not recommend this movie to anyone, in fact, if I was asked about it I would give the person the horrible facts about it's lack of plot.

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Summary: Two enthusiastic thumbs up!
Review: This movie was absolutely wonderful. I was a bit taken aback at first because I thought it was a western but it opens in modern day NY with Edge one of our protaganists robbing an old lady's home. Once over my shock I settled down and watched one of the best movies I have ever seen. It was the most original, intelligent movies. An amazing, masterful piece of art. This is not however some arthouse drivel but an exciting and moving film that will appeal to anyone who has a love of cinema and a good story. I highly recommend it!

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Summary: Got no talent? Make an homage
Review: Wow, did this miss the mark. You can get the basic storyline for this film from the Amazon review. Sounds intriguing, right? Well, the filmmaker desperately wanted to make a different kind of movie, and the desperation shows. This film tries so damn hard to be full of "interesting characters" that everything comes off like a student film. This is most obvious in the flashback storyteller, an old woman named Angela, who we are supposed to think of as cool and vaguely hip because she can talk trash with the black kid that breaks into her house. Good Christ, this was a bad movie. Obvious and superficial. The director's so-called "homage" to various film genres are just simply poor rip offs. Sort of like the rappers talking tonelessly over former hits. I guess if you have no talent, an "homage" is as close as you're going to come.

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Summary: love it or hate it
Review: You will likely either love it or hate it...I loved it.