Good movie to watch in western action film on a boy travels to see her friend (Rose) in adventure.

A modern, little different western. A "Man with no name" type character, that of Fassbender. Simple, slow-paced, no happy ending for all.

Yes, it's slow paced but I never lost interest. I really enjoyed how it all wrapped up. Excellent acting all around.

Good western feel to it. Slow West is a slow build of character development throughout leading to a pretty good climatic sequence to close it out. Well worth the watch.

This is a hilariously awful film. Like I can't believe it was made. (SPOILER AHEAD) The penultimate scene were a stray bullet hits a container on the shelf and LITERALLY POURS SALT in Kodi Smit-McKee's wound. Are you shitting me? Somebody got paid to write this nonsense? I think I saw that in Airplane! No redeeming qualities. .5 stars. Anyone who reviewed this over one star in a professional capacity needs to be dismissed with all possible dispatch.

For me its a top 3 all time western. It sits in the pantheon. Fantastic.

Incredible character driven Western

One of 2015's best movies and one of the best westerns in years. This beautifully shot western is poetic in it's telling and a fantastic debut by McLean as writer/director. Must see, particularly for fans of westerns

This feels like what would happen if Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson collaborated on a western. Going in blind, I expected this to be a romantic western. Boy was a suprised. It's incredibly picturesque, has some dark humor, and great acting, especially from Michael Fassbender. This is one of the few A24 films I haven't seen but Im glad i finally have. I tend to find most Westerns boring, but this one I didn't. I actually really enjoyed it, mostly because it doesn't feel like it's dragging. The tremendous pacing helps with this, and at only 80 minutes it's a nice quick watch. Also, the ending was done perfectly and honestly suprised me.

Probably one of the most inept and simultaneously annoyingly pretensions "attempt" that I saw in years. Disconnectedly pointless mess.

It is different. I can agree that it didn't follow the regular western pattern but they could use better effects, better bullets wounds and more action. The love story sucks.

Silas (Michael Fassbender) and Jay (Kodi Smit-McPhee) embark on a journey across the American West in the late 1800s in search of the same woman (Caren Pistorius), the former to collect a $2,000 bounty and the latter to satisfy an unrequited love. While Slow West would be considered a Western by definition, it clearly transcends the genre. Yes, consistent with the genre, there are shootouts, bloodthirsty killings, injustices against Native Americans, beautiful vistas, and plenty of trotting about on horses. So what makes Slow West exceptional? The writing is often ingenious, touching on everything from Darwinism to the treatment of Native Americans, often introducing minor shifts in the narrative that are consistently surprising and always rewarding. Slow West in a film deserving of a wider audience than it had upon its release.

A story about a miracle adventure wandering in the wild-wild wilderness with a touch of fun and heart-warming...

How do you continue to sleep as your body is half-engulfed in a flood? Ask Michael Fassbender, he wakes up nearly drowning in his bedroll. Virtually every 'serious' Western (not even just arthouse Westerns) released over the past several years must have at least one of two elements - gritty brutality, or an overt demytholgization of the setting, essentially the next stage of the Revisionist movement. Slow West has measures of both, plus some degree of black comedy to make it a bit more palatable, but the overwhelming influence is a sense of nihilism; Fassbender walks familiar territory as the world-weary and streetwise ('trailwise'?) drifting wanderer, while Smit-McPhee takes on the role of his idealistic opposite (a relic of civilization and misplaced morality). The world they explore together is one of chance, cruelty, and bleak comedy (the skeleton crushed under a tree, axe still in hand). It's a familiar dynamic and theme, sometimes explored very overtly through direct narration. However, writer-director John Maclean seems aware of this, playing off cliche with comedy and injecting some interesting visuals of the stark West coupled with some more modernist flavor (the spotless cabin, the framing of the wheat down to the ground). All in all, not a bold thematic statement but with enough creativity and charm to be worth the watch for genre and casual fans. Nice to see Rory McCann getting some work outside of Game of Thrones. (3/5)

A slow and steady, quirky western with heart that doesn't have many weak spots, if any. Some very interesting camera shots.

A very under appreciated western.

This incredibly polished and brilliantly executed semi-western balances youth romanticism and heart wrenching violence with breathtaking ease.

Slow and uneven journey - how it ends is really something fresh.

A promising start peters out to the point where slow west says more about the storytelling than the title. A note to director - the use of the ‘falling asleep then waking up robbed' technique really only works once in a film. Any more and it may come across as lazy in the ‘waking up and it was all a dream' kinda way. The scenes too feel a little contrived and perhaps the film sets too perfect - pointing a keener eye - to a non USA filming location. A little artistic licence is allowable but when it gets to the point of - unlikely and - why then it detracts too much from the experience.

Opportunity wasted. With actors like Michael Fassbender and Ben Mendelsohn it's amazing how bad the movie is. Slow West certainly live up to its name but in the worst ways possible. It's a very short story that is made up mainly of b-roll instead of what I wrongly assumed. Which was a call back to directors like Sergio Leone's slower even at times monotonous approach to story telling. But unlike Leone, Maclean has no repeat no ability to build and release what should be always present tension. In conclusion it's a very decidedly boring movie with great acting it may be worth a watch to some who like neo-westerns enough to stomach it.