Great Film overall

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

One of the trippiest and strangest westerns since 'El Topo', but besides visual exploration, don't expect too much coherence in story telling. The film goes deeper and deeper into the spiritual territories, but at the end leaves the viewer dissatisfied as by the end all the visual treats are just an hollow experiments and nothing more. The computer generated meditation and hallucination scenes are there just to be there for visual purpose. Although empty and somewhat confusing, they don't feel like some foreign bodies thrown in as these scenes beautifully melt in with the overall flow of the movie. The cinematography sometimes feel restless with its constant camera pans and rotations. We are never allowed to rest our eyes on steady shot. But the restless camera is supported with good editing so it doesn't start to distract too much.Unconventional western with unconventional hero and villain with unconventional motives. Not as deep and spiritual as it aspires to be, but nonetheless entertaining to watch mostly thanks to its great cast and lively cinematography. The film that is definitely meant for the big screen to get the full enjoyment out if it.

I'm one of those who watched Blueberry awaiting a comic book adaptation and, needless to say, wasn't impressed. Maybe the title itself was misleading, since i see there was a release called Renegade. That one i'd surely avoid, which, in turn, would have spared me the disappointment.Anyhow, if you're not familiar with the comic book, there's a whole level of discussion made obsolete. We're left with some nice visuals, yet they get swiftly forgotten by poor CGI which should represent psychedelic visions. Since Blueberry has been released in 2004, i.e. several years after Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon set new standards for special effects, there is no excuse for these visual blurbs.

A mythological western tale gone awry with no purpose or sense of direction this follow-up to the breakthrough "Dobermann" is a misdirected waste of talent.Very loosely based on a comic book (to the extent that one has to ask why Jan Kounen actually felt like he needed to call it Blueberry) of the same name it gives an awkward feeling of a movie trying to fulfil the commercial expectations of the financial backers, but at the same time displays a no-holds-barred approach to experimental cinema. The end effect is unfortunately a smelly pile of garbage.The young Mike Blueberry ventures into the wild west as a young lad with hormones a bustlin'. On his first day he hooks up with a pretty and easily wooed hooker and naturally falls in love after hours of sexual intercourse. In comes Wallace Sebastian Blount (Michael Madsen), who has some unsatisfied needs that need satisfying and naturally he chooses Mike's girl. This ends tragically with the 'escort' dead, Wallace half-burnt alive and Mike escaping the scene on horse only to fall into the hands of some wacko-mystical injuns, who save his life, but block out his painful memories. Years later Blueberry is the sheriff in the same small town that initiated the events of the movie. And surely as American films end happily-ever-after Wallace reappears in town... and he is seeking some old injun treasures...Now the above might sound like a breakdown of the script, but unfortunately save for a few stuff I left out IT IS THE WHOLE SCRIPT. This is a massively overblown movie, where the runtime really should have been cut by half. That said it offers scintillating cinematography to fill the script void, but the style is just way overboard and just punctuates the total lack of substance. You get the feeling that the movie is based on two premises: 1) let's get as many slow beautiful shots as possible, so it seems cerebral, 2) and so that the producers don't kill us lets add some cool useless characters with a couple of wacky fight scenes + some needless gore.Actors generally seem not to know what they actually want to convey, whilst random characters are thrown in and wasted in plot less plots (i.e. Djimon Hounsou introduces a strong presence in the character of Woodhead only to be killed off within 30 minutes of the movie). Additionally the acting seems often totally out of place since its reminds you of a Sergio Leone type flick and this is immensely at odds with the supernatural sombre and overly visual mood that is being force fed to the unsuspecting viewers.The movie ends with a five minute screen saver instead of a finale. The only reason anyone may want to reach the end of this is the knowledge that the movie ends with an underwater nude scene with Juliette Lewis. And whilst some people will try to convince you that the movie is just too smart for you... don't believe them. Problems with this massive failure of a movie are twofold: Its too pretentious and phony to get any critics on-board, but at the same time too slow and plot less for people expecting a western. If anyone wants a deep western with great visuals I suggest "The Proposal".

It all boils down to Jan Kounen's personality. He likes to play with images, or more precisely to toy with his camera and visuals. Not a bad thing per se provided the guy knows how to tell a story. Now the problem is Jan Kounen went to Mexico and lost any kind of professional outlook he might have. In exchange he discovered Other Worlds, i.e. Worlds inside his soul or whatever you may experience thanks to shamanism.As an audience you don't care about the director's personal journey unless it makes for a good story. It's not that I only stick with down-to-earth narratives: a story should be told mostly visually. Kubrick's 2001 entranced audiences of pot-smoking hippies, but you needn't pot to enjoy the psychedelic ending. As a matter of fact Kubrick never got lost in a project, and that's why some may find his movies too cerebrally cold, but he never indulged in a pseudo personal therapy.Enough with Kounen who never grew up with his camera (it's amazing he never seems to understand a camera may stand still at times), the producers who trusted him even after he lost his professional mind while preparing Blueberry are to be blame before. Too bad for them, the comic book Blueberry is an homage to westerns and the stunning locations of the Wild West (right, Moebius is credited and some shots are a nice tip of the hat to his drawings), with wonderfully scripted adventure (hey guys you lost J-M Charlier in the process, no wonder the story sucked). The original story was a quest for gold, we all end up with a quest for a meaning. Next time please, make the quest for meaning an inside story of the adventure synopsis, thanks.