Lack of good storyline.

Brilliant and touching

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Road to Nowhere is auteur director Monte Hellman's first film in 21 years and is a breathtaking return to cinema. The film premiered in competition at the 67th Venice Int' Film Festival and won the Jury Award Special Lion for Career Achievement. This recognition is a testament to the quality of the film as well as the genius of the filmmaker behind it. The film also features a terrific cameo from legendary film actor Fabio Testi. I look forward to many more films from Hellman in the future. His latest project is 'Love or Die', which is scheduled to commence shooting in Lisbon in March 2014. He is truly one of the greatest film directors in the history of American film.William Anderson

A great movie in which the play on illusions is really worthy, intelligent and meaningful. I have to make a comparison which is not one of exactitude but of general feeling with the movies of Lynch and the way they use sensations as the vehicle of the movie and the "mise en abime" is its powerful engine and it is an important compliment coming from me.You have to let yourself getting swallowed by Monte Hellman's multiple versions of reality that only cinema as a medium allows and float in that in appearance quite random (only in appearance though) mix of moments that connect together on a much more profound level that you may feel initially if you try to rationalize the story, the storytelling and find a message in this movie. I am all for rationalizing things in general, critical and independent thinking in real life but this is art and there are no rules in art, or at least there should not be in my conception of it.I love rational and well structured movies but the real purely artistic ones are the ones that do the thing that only them can, they speak directly to your real self, a mix between you conscious and unconscious that in my mind they have been carefully crafted (consciously or unconsciously) by the filmmaker, not enough of conscious and you have often fascinating but very hard of access pieces of radically experimental cinema and not enough unconscious and you have some often amazing movies but which tends to work only on one level or maybe two, staying at the entrance of the dark forest that is your deep self.Monte Hellman like Lynch or Malick is one of the rare directors whom manages to find the right balance between all the above elements and for that and the very intense moments that they create for us as spectators, he has got my eternal thanks, for what its worth !!To finish as an advice for the viewer, let yourself go to your sensations and do not intellectualize the film on the first viewing as this is surely going to be the first of many if you let the film take you and that you surrender to it !!

A really bad movie trying to be existential and thought provoking, with supposed stylish scenes, that starts and ends up being just a confusing, intentionally unintelligible borefest.First we watch a riveting four minute scene with a woman blowing a hairdryer on her face for some reason. Pretty girl, but please. I guess the director thinks that some people when they are pondering their lives or a dilemma break out the hairdryer. Shots ring out later for reasons that are never fully shown or explained. I will tell you why, but there are now SPOILERS AHEAD.There begins some type of cover up for a crime, that ends up actually being a movie of the cover up of the crime that ends up being a movie of a movie of the cover up of the crime, or maybe not, that ends up being an entirely new crime, but wait.....it is a now a movie of that crime, but that ends up being a filming of the story of that crime, or maybe not......who knows? I am sure this all has some deep meaning to the director, and shadows his personal life or something, but to normal people, no meaning at all. Worse, it is stunningly slow and boring. If you find the above premise intriguing, I would suggest someone could have made a movie like that that would be infinitely more interesting and yet still be confusing and thought provoking. Like maybe Inception or numerous other movies.I think the movie is summed up by its title, but even more to the point, a line within the movie itself (or within one of the movies of the movies...): " Let's f--- the facts" OK cut....lets look over this review and see if it reads well.... OK CUT.......THATS A WRAP OF THIS REVIEW..........

Like the title of this horrible nothing of a film, it truly goes no where, sure I liked the first 5 to 10 minutes and thought hey this could be good. But again I was fooled, I really should have paid more attention to the cast of no body's, it tends to be a good indication what a film is going to be like, and yes I have been wrong before, but most times it is a pretty good way to sort out the good from the bad.Don't get me wrong this could have been an O.K film but it had no direction of any kind, and really no fault of the cast that this ended up to be a stinker of a boring film. They seemed to really try to hard doing absolutely nothing with a script that has no direction of any kind.If you are O.K with wasting about 2 hours of your life than go for it, I myself just have better things to do, hence I gave up on this film half way through.Up there with the worst stinker of the year for 2011, very solid 1 out of 10.And watch the rating of 6.4 tumble over the next few weeks!Update Update!!!! and for those who voted positive for this disaster, please note the rating of 6.4, it is coming down! What does that mean? it stinks!