The Dead Don't Hurt

Very slow and very dry with no emotional value whatsoever. Very very disappointing acting on Viggo's part. The great movie for putting you to sleep. Other than that I would not recommend it.

The jumping between time lines is a bit confusing at first. Otherwise a very slow movie with little emotion.

No es un western, es un romance tipo de los que gustaban a mu abuela, que en paz descanse. Se ve que Viggo quería complacer a alguien, no creo que nadie haga semejante esperpento por iniciativa personal. Hay que colaborar para conseguir tanto aburrimiento. La quité a los 30 min.

Why the ratings are in the 80 percent ballpark is a mystery to me. The choppy, confusing flashbacks muddle everything. And what are the French scenes supposed to mean? When I watched the movie on Amazon Prime, the French scenes were spoken in French with no English subtitles. The text on the screen simply said that the characters were speaking in French. OK, but what were they saying during those extended conversations? And what did the French father's unexplained hanging have to do with anything? And speaking of hangings, did the stuttering fellow that got hung, actually die, or was he saved by the crowd that knew he was innocent? And what was a medieval knight doing rambling around the forests? So many loose ends and so much unnecessary confusion. The acting, locations, and cinematography were above average, but the choppy editing and unexplained scenes muddied and soiled the story.

Beautiful film. Great story, amazing scenery, wonderful acting. I hope that Viggo makes more.

Wow, Viggo. This is pretty damn good. Just the right level of humor, like Unforgiven, but slightly more sensitive. I think I would have liked it better without the accent. Great direction. That said, I'm only half way through, but I love it so far.

Better than most westerns.

Viggo Mortensen is such a good actor and film-maker. His danish/american accent is on point. Absolutely stunning visuals.

Although the movie itself was good enough, the parts that had the characters speaking in a foreign language left you totally lost as to what they were saying and how it related to anything since no captions were provided and one’s own closed caption does not translate foreign languages. So, a good part of the movie is “blank” and robs you of content that is necessary to understand other parts of the movie since about a third of the movie is flashbacks where most of the language barrier occurs. For instance, there are, I believe, three different scenes throughout the movie that flashes back to a knight but, due to the dialogue in the speaking scene being in a foreign language, there is absolutely no context of what the knight represents and why it is appearing in the movie.

10 minute conversation in French and I have no idea what they said. Very slow movie.