SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Thoroughly enjoyed how this movie never let itself be tied down - always surprising you. But for me the violence especially around the teenagers is difficult to accept as what seems to be part of their normal lives. Truthful in parts of America? Yes but just to see it on screen is shocking and hard to take. Why is the violence exaggerated so? Reminded me at times of an adult version of Huck Finn. Beautifully made film in all departments.

First-the summary of this movie reminds me of one older movie from the 90s, as two boys meet an escaped convict and in the end the prisoner shoots one of the boys, but is being shot in the end from the injured boy's brother in revenge, or defense. My criteria to rate a movie are special effects and stunts- fights and gunshots look real. language-If people talk with sophisticated phrases the language won't appear to be spontaneous but the result of a writer. Outdoor scenery-gives typical impression of the misissippi region. The end-In this case the end does not seem to be from a true story. However, a movie is only based on a true story if phrase like "this movie is based on true facts" is placed in its introduction or final declaration. One key scene is as the officer asks "do you know this man" and the boy says first "No" but asks"What did he do". Does the officer suspect the boy is lying?

Great directors often hire great composers. There is nothing like a great musical score to enhance a film's power. Hitchcock, Scorsese, De Palma - all these great American filmmakers had great composers working for them. The musical score for Mud is the usual trite and sentimental country rubbish that you would hear in any ordinary American film. Mud is no ordinary film. The characters in Mud could be out of a novel written by Mark Twain or William Faulkner if they were alive today. Which is why I question Jeff Nichol's choice of background score. He was aiming high with this film. He needed to get the best in the business. Which makes me question his reputation as one of the best American filmmakers working today. The film started off well. Two boys embark on an adventure on a boat and run into this outlaw sort of character (Matthew McConaughey). After an initial conflict, he earns their respect and the boys decide to help him reunite with his girlfriend in exchange for the boat he lives in. It is an interesting film reflecting the attitudes and motivations of rural Americans (or rednecks - the writer V.S.Naipaul refused to use the word as a pejorative) and their lifestyle. Mud is a film of place - Jeff Nichols seems to love the American countryside and the rural landscapes. He explored this milieu in both Take Shelter and Midnight Special (his latest film).Tye Sheridan is a young actor to watch out for. He made quite an impression in Joe (2013), another film about rural America. Matthew McConaughey must be one of the best leading men in Hollywood today.Unfortunately, one of the hallmark's of Jeff Nichol's films seems to be ennui. He simply trudges along and needlessly elongates the film without adding anything to the characters or the story. I think he is a better writer than a director. I do not expect much out of Hollywood anymore. We are in the bronze as far as Hollywood is concerned. And in the bronze age, Mud is as good as it gets.(6/10)

It's like Jamie Lannister saying " The things I do for Love "" You need to watch yourself " -Mud In fact, everyone needs to watch himself, mostly the eponymous fugitive and almost so the 14 year olds Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone (Jacob Lofland), who aid the murderer Mud (Matthew McConaughey)as he connects with his lost love, Juniper (Reese Witherspoon) and evades bounty hunters and irate family members of his victim. Everyone seems to be running from something.Mud, who is in trouble for killing his girlfriends " troubler/ molester " , is being chased and hunted down by the police and the victims family. Mud runs off to an island on the banks of Mississippi and finds a Boat on a tree and apparently two young explorers also find the same. They help Mud rebuild it so he can get off the island and go far from there as possible with his love Juniper.While Juniper still doesn't trust him, he leaves her for good, and decides to leave the place alone once and for all. While saying the final good bye he gets attacked by the bounty hunters at gets shot. The last scene depicts him on a boat with his uncle ( who according to Mud was an Assassin) are off to the sea with a new life.The filmography is beautiful with a country-side setting. The shots of the great Mississippi river is also charming. I still don't get it why Matthew was not nominated for Oscars for this.