People are voting emotionally.

Nice effects though.

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

i saw this film on DVD recently without reading or looking at reviews here but stupid friend of mine said he loved the ending ,because its a horror movie (that was enough to convince me to give it a shot ) so i put the DVD in the DVD player ,and movie starts : its a long road film (not the fun type of road movies )it begins with a photographer and a model taking road trips ,and how they started their relationship in this ''lets have sex at every nice location road movie'' and i was hoping i would enjoy some scenes but apparently the model wasn't Letitia casta type of sexy model either,,there are some great locations here (a plus for good directing) ,just the first 20 mins passed and i had double thought to force myself to watch 2 hours long of unstable relationships between the two,or skip the long driving scenes through the landscape (nice jeep though),the dialogue was just kind of weird ,sex scene,then another sex scene ,then another , sex in swimming pool nice ,sex on rocks ,COOL ,adventurous sex scene almost i forgot i got a GF watching with me,yeah right,,i really thought about stop watching after 1 hour but decided to make coffee and continue ,then the last accident with 3 thugs appeared out of nowhere as they took the couple in good beat down for my amusement for putting me to boring film,but hey those guys spiced up the story out of sudden its now a got horror elements like hills have eyes moment involving in rape and assault leaving the couple wounded(that's the horror you guys are talking about ?)well,now the leading male actor pulled a Friday th13 final chapter on his girlfriend ,die die die stabbing his girl ,because his mind is unstable due to the rape so he unleash it on the his girlfriend model ,the movie ends with police arriving to bust him in the desert the end,so i asked my GF what she thinks of the film she said you better take that film off the DVD shelf and throw it in the garbage which i did gladly overall good director ,bad actors,bad dialogue,this film is not horror i repeat not horror,i really don't know why reviewers are saying its horror film,its not,check your brain cells again please you cant label a movie just for the last 20 mins of horrific accident to turn characters to a killer with Michael Myers favorite knifing segment (how did he got a knife again ?)of course i called my friend who recommended the movie for me the next day and i told him he is an idiot and i hang up the phone quickly lol

sorry people: no amount of pseudo-intellectual drivel can justify the dog's breakfast. a horror movie with no actual horror? that's not experimental, that's crap. whoever said movies about images and not story is totally, completely, wrong. Paintings are about images. Movies are about story, plot, characterisation...these things a movie make. if images are your thing, go to a gallery. don't try and excuse self-indulgent cinematic vomit. this film takes an hour and a half for nothing to happen; when it does, it's out of the blue, out of context and out of proportion. the preceding ninety minutes do nothing to build suspense, they are merely boring. nothing about the characters is explained, no back-story is given, and when the inevitable violence occurs, it's relief to know that these two examples of human excrement will not disgrace our screens further. i want my two hours back. rapid painful death to those who drive hummers.

Yes, reading the reviews is much more rewarding. By any measure.This review contains spoilers. Read further anyway. It doesn't matter, even when you're intending to see the movie.The film begins with two people in a SUV, David and Katia, driving to the Joshua Tree Desert. Despite all their misunderstandings, they feel attracted to each other, but regularly explode in quarrels and fights. That part of the film was logical and understandable. The film is a study in how relationships can go haywire. One can have look at what they talk. Or you could listen to the silence when they should talk. In your mind, you could even speak up for them when they fail.But why did they cut away the entire character development? Really, I could not care less about David and Katia. What they said and how they behaved was in the end meaningless. In contrast, I rather enjoyed their nude bodies, their physical exercise and the wonderful landscape of the Joshua Tree Desert. Wow.The film ends with three hillbillies tailgating them on a desert road, stopping them, pulling them from the car, and raping David. Why and WHY did this happen? Out from the nothing, the film ends with a sudden conclusion, and you'll never get to know why they were targeted.It has been said that Bruno Dumont, the director of this film, translated a life-negating state of mind into a film. David and Katia were already outcasts in the beginning - he speaks only English and French, Katia only Russian and French - and they were rejected by the desert, a place where you have to rely on your fellow human beings in order to survive."Twentynine Palms" is an ill-fated parable. I don't say Bruno Dumont is a bad filmmaker. But as a filmmaker, he forgot to counterbalance the philosophical, psychological and the tardiness parts with a credible and suspenseful story.

It's not even enough to blame this on warped French sensibilities. There is no movie here - no plot, no story, no theme, no characters, no cinematography, no soundtrack - just boring shots of the desert inter cut with boring shots of awkward sex - until you finally and mercifully get an ending that is apparently from a different movie entirely. I think it must be a perverse joke by the director - some kind of statement on the absolute banality of our lives if we are willing to sit through something like this - and the fact that the best we can hope for is a violent end to our empty existence. The director should never be allowed to touch a camera again in his life.