Synopsis
A suicidal artist goes into the desert, where he finds his doppelgänger, a homicidal drifter.
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Cast
- Garrett HedlundThomas
- Oscar IsaacJack
- Louise BourgoinMilly
- Walton GogginsJim
- Mark WahlbergNorman
- Dania RamírezDetective Beaumont
- Fran KranzBob
- Matt JonesLouis
- Anna Margaret HollymanEstate Lawyer
- Del ZamoraIndian Manager
Recommendations
- 75
Movie Nation
The players and their flinty, smart dialogue make this lean movie the screen equivalent of bleached bones in the desert sand — bones with just enough meat on them to lure us in. - 67
IndieWire
The overarching problem with Mojave is that the two tones don't mesh well together, to the point where it seems Monaghan can't decide if he wants to make an ominous neo-western or a dark satire. Fortunately, the filmmaker's committed lead actors make some of the storytelling issues bearable. - 58
The Playlist
A weird, uneven mixed bag, there’s much about Mojave that’s paradoxically maddening and doesn’t really add up. As the movie plot becomes less interesting and more straight-forward — like a slasher movie with the evil antagonist character slowly closing in on the hero — it becomes funnier and more purely enjoyable. - 50
Screen Daily
Humor does provide some welcome relief from the heaviness of Mohave’s script. - 50
New York Post
Mojave is a movie-length standoff between two detestable villains. One is a serial killer. The other is a filmmaker. - 42
The A.V. Club
By turns inert and logorrheic, William Monahan’s pseudo-intellectual nut-scratcher Mojave is a movie of barely furnished mansions and lens flare-speckled landscapes. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
In a simpler form, Mojave might have been a gripping if minor genre film. Instead, it's undone by the sort of pretentious overwriting that might have seemed impressive in the '70s but now comes across as merely forced. - 30
Variety
Monahan isn’t required to satisfy bloodlust or to pay off conventional plot points, even if his screenplay for “The Departed” displayed an abundant talent for doing so. But he assumes too much in believing that the audience will connect in any way with a sour, prickly narcissist who’s trapped in the gilded cage of wealth and fame.
