Movie Reviews for Don't Come Knocking

Don't Come Knocking

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Movie Reviews of Don't Come Knocking

Movie Review: One of the Best (So Far) of 2006
Summary: 5 Stars

"Don't Come Knocking" is directed by Wim Wenders and written and starring Sam Shepherd ('The Notebook'). The film is a visual poem, simalar to a movie like Jim Jarmusch's "Dead Man" and it truly is a beautiful film. The Academy of course will ignore it, but this film should be a contender for Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction for this years Oscars. The movie's reviews were less-than-spectacular, but I really can't see why. I loved this film and it's one of the best films I've seen so far this year. Shepherd plays Howard Spence, a once famous actor who flees the set of his latest film with no warning. After ditching the horse he stole from the set, he travels to Nevada to reconnect with his mother (Eva Marie Saint) whom he hasn't seen in years. Meanwhile, an insurance agent named Sutter (Tim Roth, in a wonderfully quirky performance) is sent to retrieve Howard so he can finish the film. While Howard visits with his mother and revisits via a scrapbook his troubled past (alcoholism, frequent arrests, his "fall from grace."); His mother reveals that she heard he may have a son he doesn't know about living in Butte, Montana. When he reaches Butte, he finds an old flame Doreen (Jessica Lange) and her son, his son, Earl (Gabriel Mann) and his wacky girlfriend (Fairuza Balk, who has all-but-disappeared in the last few years). There's also a mysterious girl following him named Sky (Sarah Polley) who is equipped with the ashes of her dead mother. While I did say "mysterious" I guessed who she was from the beginning, it's really no big surprise...But, anyway, the film is a slow-moving dreamlike film that not everyone will like. This is definitely an art house-type of film; But it is truly a beautiful movie and the performances are great too. I don't know the kind of people who I can recommend this too, but I'll close with this. If you like well photographed films, that are wonderful to look at, have a great story (although, one that was quite simalar was used in the film Broken Flowers),
and terrific performances. Do come knocking.

GRADE: A

Movie Review: totally satisfying
Summary: 5 Stars

Naysayers, I found this movie totally enchanting and didn't want it to end. Excellent acting by the reliable Jessica Lange and Sarah Polley. This movie wasn't meant to take home 15 oscars - it was a whimsical, hilarious, refreshing, poignant, indie character study that hit on just about all cylinders. The cinimatography, the dialog, the pacing, the scenery, and most of the acting were all first rate.

Howard was a putz - probably not unsimilar to many Hollywood actors young and old. Did you expect him to become enlightened by the end of the film? He stayed in character though he tried, squeezing Sky's hand gently. His children reaped the rewards when they came to terms with his shortcomings finding themselves in the process.

More people need to see this film.

Movie Review: a great film
Summary: 5 Stars

this is a pretty good film. the slow tempo fits the storyline perfectly. a simple, cliched movie but performed well. not a tear jerker but a sad and melancholy story. fooling around all in your life, rootless and focus-less like a ghost waltzed through, messed around and never thought to look back. then one day you just woke up and saw there's nothing left for the presence and you had to trace back of your life, the route you once passed through. then, then you had found out that nobody wanted you any more. you have to face and deal with your own emptiness and loneliness like everybody you've deserted. life is a circle, what goes around, comes around.

Movie Review: Don't Come Knocking: Existential Philosophy at its Best!
Summary: 5 Stars

In summary to the detailed analyses already provided by others, this movie
is the best depiction of core Existential Philosophy themes I have ever seen!
There is nothing like it out there. I suspect the writers don't know they
pulled this off!

Future Film Class Discussion Groups will treat this as an all-time Classic
since it harbours so many life-themes with theological undertones!!! In a
fantastic cinema-graphic product!

Change is a given, Growth is an option -the constant challenge:
Chance favours the prepared mind!