Sundown

Tim Roth:......... .......

Odd and slow pacing, but overall good movie Tim Roth was perfect for the role.

Closest thing to legal euthanasia, imagine Sylvia Plath wrote the hangover and you directed it, was of LIFE

Little plot or dialogue, but there the direction and acting -- especially Mr. Roth -- somehow engages you. That said, the plot twist in the final quarter feels like too easy a way out, and it delegitimizes much of what you have seen previously. Otherwise, the dark ending fits, even if it is existentially difficult to watch/process, that honest pain of the human condition does resonate.

I watch a ton of movies and overall this was pretty good. In the beginning I was not sure if the lady he was with was his wife or sister? Was I the only one? Even after the mom died I still was not sure if he was cheating on her with the new gal he met on the island. Then when she came back to have him sign the legal papers I was like oh that is his sister. I give this movie a C+, glad I watched it.

So, so slow. You keep waiting for something to happen (as the film promises), but it never does. Then it just ends. I'm sure this will be spun as "Artistic" by the producer, but it was just awful. A waste of an hour and a half.

Fantastic film! Only a person, who watched someone die can understand this loneliness, this complete indifference to last transitional housing, this slow disappearance. Will watch more by this director.

Am I the only one who thought they were husband and wife? Had to rewatch it to see if I missed that somewhere but nope, it's never mentioned.

Sundown – A Slow Burn While not a dedicated fan of Tim Roth, he acquits himself rather well in the serious but ambiguous role of a ‘tourist' in Acapulco, behaving very strangely. But, is it ever really right for a writer/director (Michel Franco) to deliberately keep vital details about their story and its characters from the audience - in order to make the main theme and situations more difficult to fathom? This is one of those cases where we are forced to wonder what's driving the central characters - while being kept out of the vital loop to understand their motivations and actions. At times this device can add a mysterious element to certain stories but this one is just too meanderingly bland to qualify as a mystery per se. Still, the makers expect us to have the patience to stay with it long enough to fill in the missing pieces. Too many people read about the movies they choose to see before watching, then think they are superior for ‘working it out', but for others who like to go in cold and let the story unfold in its own time, it's another matter. Minimalist works such as this require more detail to allow us to connect the more outlandish sections (and there are several here) to where the story is heading. While at times interesting and rather tragic, it's just as well this has a shortish runtime as any more would have killed it entirely. The ending doesn't fully deliver a complete understanding of the many peculiar prior actions, and judging from the bulk of reviews, this may not be adequate closure for many to accept, and understandably so.

Very timely movie for me. I'm 62 and retired. I've watched normal life destroyed by the insanity of Covid measures. In 6 weeks, I'm giving all my possessions away, and living the rest of my life in a furnished rental on the beach in a Mexico beach town. I'd give Sundown 10 stars if I could.