Waste of time

Best movie ever!

Blistering performances.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Ray Winstone deserves the "Steven Seagal Gold Star Award for mumbling in a low voice". Absolutely awful... did the director tell Winstone to speak unintelligibly, or was he too chicken to tell him to SPEAK UP and SEPAK CLEARLY? Also in this fil, again we have the dull Brad Pitt playing the part of a violent, vicious IRISH thug. The Irish accent is a broad caricature (I'm part Irish, btw). This flick is so bleak, with ao many long, drawn-out scenes. I simply could not finish it, had to eject the DVD. And thank God for subtitles, or I would not have been able to catch more than 10% of what Winstone slurred. NOT RECOMMENDED. 2/10 because there are some worse flims and because John Hurt lifted this crud a little.

Well, no matter how I rate this movie a lot of people are going to say that my rating is wrong. That is something that you probably can say about any rating for any movie. I feel it is especially true as far as this movie goes though. As you can see from my rating I was not exactly thrilled by the movie. That does not mean that it is a bad movie. Again, this you can say about a lot of ratings, especially my ratings.Okay, I guess I have confused everyone enough now so let me try to explain. As a piece of cinematic art this movie is excellent. The acting is quite good. I especially liked John Hurt as the literate bounty hunter but most of the main characters where performing admirably. The scenery is wonderful. The Australian outback makes for a excellent backdrop and it is indeed a nice change from the classical North American western sceneries.As a movie it falls flat though. In my opinion a movie should at least try to tell a story. Even if it aspires to be a piece of art it should try and tell a story that the audience can, in one way or another, follow. This movie have a basic idea of a story but it does not really tell a story. We never get to now who the bad guys really are, what they really did, except for a bunch of hints about killing and rape, or why. Heck, we never actually get to know of the guy the flogged to death where really taking part in the deed or not.Throughout the movie the bad guys are supposedly hiding in some place where it is impossible to get them so the main character tries to get the bad guys brother to kill him. Not very plausible at all. The governor, Eden Fletcher played by David Wenham, or whatever he as supposed to be was pretty much an asshole. Okay every movie has to have one but his role was never really developed. Once he managed to get the young kid, innocent or not, flogged we really do not see much of him for the rest of the movie.The end of the movie is much the same as the rest of the movie. Cinematically excellent but not much of a story. There is no real conclusion. It just ends in a sequence of well done scenes but without any real story behind it.Maybe I'm a too simple mind when it comes to these kind of movies but I, even though I appreciated the graphics that was shown on my TV-screen, I did not really enjoy it as a movie.

Whilst by no means a terrible movie, The Proposition adds nothing to an already done-to-death genre, namely Westerns.The plot is thin and could have made an acceptable TV episode, but instead its spun out into a movie with the addition of pointless travelogue songs and the occasional (not occasional enough!) bouts of philosophy and drivel spouted by some of the characters.The backstory to the characters is almost non-existent. We are told they are a band of ruthless outlaws and degenerates and their crimes are hinted at, but never shown. This is at odds with the rest of the movie, which gleefully shows the effects of violence with gusto.None of the characters are particularly likable, which leads the viewer to not really care one way or the other whether they live or die. And, when you don't care about the characters, it's hard to care about the movie as a whole.The Proposition is slow, uneven and filled with well...filler. At the end, I was glad it was finished so that I could go and get on with something more interesting and rewarding.SUMMARY: Tedious and unsatisfying. Watch Unforgiven, or Deadwood for more visceral and intelligent Western drama. This one is really not worth the effort.

a western. good, impressive, touching. for its simplicity. no heroes. just few brothers, a woman, her husband, shadow of a murder, a form of justice. nothing more. a story without great surprises. but this is explanation for its importance. and for the science of director to give essential pieces of a world.a film about common sense. and its forms. about need of normal life and basic gestures. about errors, sacrifices and expectations. nothing new. or more old. only show of a fight. an interior fight. and a gesture who is more than reflection of a proposition. a dusty town, pieces of a murder, a proposition and a gesture. that is all.