Dead Man

Jim Jarmusch

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4.33

Dead Man

Synopsis

A fatally wounded white man is found by an outcast Native American who prepares him for the afterlife.

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Cast

Johnny DeppWilliam Blake
Gary FarmerNobody
Crispin GloverTrain Fireman
Lance HenriksenCole Wilson
Michael WincottConway Twill
Eugene ByrdJohnny 'The Kid' Pickett
John HurtJohn Scholfield
Robert MitchumJohn Dickinson
Iggy PopSalvatore 'Sally' Jenko
Gabriel ByrneCharlie Dickinson

Recommendations

100
Chicago Reader
Jarmusch has said that the film's odd, generally slow rhythm -- hypnotic if you're captivated by it, as I am, and probably unendurable if you're not--was influenced by classical Japanese period movies by Kenji Mizoguchi and Akira Kurosawa.
80
The A.V. Club
Jarmusch's trademark quiet irony, affinity for the outcast and oddball, and moonscape visuals suit the Western genre well.
80
Empire
It's a tale that subtly reinterprets the genre and delivers Jarmusch's most accomplished, if not necessarily his most accessible film to date.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Dead Man plays a lot of cards at the same time, and Jarmusch occasionally loses his rhythm when he allows his actors their improvisational riffs.
63
ReelViews
Filmed in black-and-white with an eerie score by Neil Young, and using contemporary dialogue and mannerisms, Jarmusch's picture has a dream-like quality.
50
Austin Chronicle
It's not a bad movie by any stretch of the imagination, just one that grabs your attention and then lets it go, time and time again.
50
The New York Times
The film's energy begins to flag after less than an hour, and as its pulse slackens it turns into a quirky allegory, punctuated with brilliant visionary flashes that partially redeem a philosophic ham-handedness.
40
Washington Post
After a promising beginning and an amusing middle, the movie gets stuck in limbo.

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