Don't Come Knocking
Dir: Wim Wenders
2005
***
The mood and pace of the film is classic Western, but for me something wasn't quite right, the balance was just a little too tilted. I understood the symbolism between Tim Roth's character and Sam Shepard protagonist but I didn't think there was anything new here, nothing that hadn't been done before. Strange for a Wenders film really - A far cry from the great Paris, Texas anyway - the poor performances from Gabriel Mann and Fairuza Balk didn't help either but strangely, I did kind of like it, although I'm certainly not mad about it. Noir-Western is an interesting idea and has been done better, here it only bogs down the overall story and becomes a gimmick.