Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

adonis98-743-186503 A suicidal artist goes into the desert, where he finds his doppelgänger, a homicidal drifter. The worst thing about Mojave is that it makes zero sense i mean there are scenes where Garrett Hedlund is shouting and even a scene where he shoots the sheriff by an accident or crashed his car in the desert and let's talk about Oscar Isaac's performance in this film he looks like a bad rapper gone wrong that came out of Mad Max: Fury Road he was annoying and weird and if you thought that his performance in X-Men: Apocalypse was worse than this then there's something pretty wrong here. Anyways overall this movie was weird, boring and pretty much dull and badly made. (0/10)

jimbo-53-186511 Tom (Garrett Hedlund)is a suicidal artist who travels into the desert and whilst out in the desert, he meets drifter Jack (Oscar Isaac). Initially thinks are OK between the two men but they quickly fall out and start arguing and fighting. Tom manages to get the better of Jack and abandons him in the middle of the desert, but Jack isn't prepared to let it go and wants his revenge against Tom.A film like Mojave should have been a no-brainer; two men have an argument and a fight and one of the men is a sociopath who the other man abandons in the desert and for this reason said sociopath hunts down the other man to gain his revenge. With this kind of simple plotting, how could this film possibly not work? Well the answer is that whilst the plot in itself is simplistic, Monahan drags it out in all sorts of directions without ever really offering us much of an understanding for what is going on? At the start of the film, I sensed that Tom was a troubled soul, but could never work out why? Perhaps developing his character more would have helped. It also doesn't help that he's pretty unlikeable as well and in all honesty I just didn't really care what happened to him to be honest?Another problem with this film is that I never really felt much fear for the protagonist- he seems to be able to handle himself and whilst Oscar Isaac is presumably supposed to be intimidating I found him a bit too cartoonish and never felt scared for Tom at any point (thus pretty much all the tension in the picture was removed as far as I was concerned). Mojave is 90 minutes long, but it doesn't really cover this ground particularly well. A lot of the dialogue is either meaningless or dull and all the various strands to the story don't seem to add up to much and it has to be said that as a whole it is neither enlightening nor is it particularly entertaining. There is a scene later in the film between Tom and Jack where you feel as though Monahan was trying to recreate the scene between Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in Heat, but it is nowhere near as effective.The performances are perhaps as good as could be expected; Isaac is always good value, but I felt that if his character had been more menacing or threatening then he could have got more out of this role. Hedlund is OK and Mark Wahlberg is good fun as an 'up-his-own-backside' producer.Mojave probably would have been a better film if it would have been more simplistic; leave the two guys out in the desert playing a game of 'cat and mouse'. However, Monahan's decision to separate the two men and fill the majority of the running time with scene after scene of meaningless dialogue and poor character development results in a film that is dull and mostly uninteresting.Sometimes a less is more approach should be adopted with films and a film like Mojave is definitely a case in point.

Moviemanic22 William Monahan is the man who wrote the screenplay for the Oscar nominated 'The Departed' back in 2006. The film was more of an extended version of the original 'Infernal affairs' He also wrote 'Body of lies 2008' which starred Leonardo Di Caprio. It appears this time round Mr Monahan decided to not put much effort in his script and delivered a very half baked product. The movie happens to also be directed and produced by him too. In spite of being well aware of it's bad reviews and low rating I decided to give it a chance , hoping in vain it would be worth the time. Unfortunately to my surprise this turned out to be one of the worst movies I had ever seen. It's no surprise why it had to be screened at film festivals before it got it's theatrical release.Towards the second I felt like I was watching a homage to Hitchcock's 'Strangers on a train'. But to even compare would be an insult. The only redeeming element of the movie was Oscar Isaac. Whenever he appears your attention will be grabbed again. Both characters were lacking any development so I was unable to emotional connect with either. The pace of the movie is very slow and the conversations are boring. Even Mark Wahlberg's cameo is not enough to save this bore fest. And the climax was just played out pathetically. I don't think Mr Monahan cares whether the film was a success or not. I guess he can be happy from the basic foot fall in to the theatre. Save your precious time and see something else.

Prismark10 This is a misfire from Oscar winning screenwriter William Monahan. In Mojave, Thomas (Garrett Hedlund) a successful but jaded artist in the movie business meets a mysterious drifter, Jack (Oscar Isaac) out in the desert. Jack is a Shakespeare spouting sociopath and once he finds out that Thomas is wealthy, he torments him leading to an accidental death of an innocent.Jack then goes after Thomas back in Los Angeles trying to disrupt his privileged life now he knows Thomas has something to hide. It is a murky, existential thriller with hard boiled dialogue and unlikable characters as well as a satire on Hollywood lifestyles with Walton Goggins and Mark Wahlberg making cameo appearances in this underdeveloped film.