I heard about DEEPWATER since very long because it has the same title of a 2016 thriller set on a submarine but this DEEPWATER has a different setting. Last summer I finally saw it and despite the downer of a ending I kinda liked it.
Nat Banyon (Lucas Black) is a hitch-hiker that has the dream of opening a ostrich farm in Wyoming and when the movie begins Nat gets involved in a bar fight and manages to steal the keys of one guy and steal his car, only to find Herman Finch (Peter Coyote) under his overturned car, save him just before a truck passes and destroys the car. As a token of gratitude Finch employs Nat as his motel's handyman. What follows are a series of misadventures caused by Nat's smittening with Finch's wife Iris, a fight that was a joke and the final showdown with Finch where Nat loses and is then caught by the police since everyone who opposes with Finch is believed lost and then found dead, so Nat must have been lucky.
Soon we find out that Nat is probably mentally ill suffering of some personality disorder, and we are left to wander if his affection for Iris was one of his many delusions (in fact when he is taken to the mental hospital he often mumbles about the baby ostriches he'll never have).
Up until the last 30 minutes I liked most of the characters and the wicked humour, but in the last half-hour I felt sorry that Nat was taken to a mental hospital because I would have loved to see him achieve his dream of open a ostrich farm and maybe go away with Iris. The cast (Black, Coyote, Xander Berkeley, Kristen Bell and Michael Ironside) did a fine job with the material given but as I said, if it wasn't for the ending I would have given a higher score (and I was about to give it a 8).
Overall, not a bad movie but considering the ending I would have loved a re-write or an alternative ending.
Nat Banyon (Lucas Black) is a hitch-hiker that has the dream of opening a ostrich farm in Wyoming and when the movie begins Nat gets involved in a bar fight and manages to steal the keys of one guy and steal his car, only to find Herman Finch (Peter Coyote) under his overturned car, save him just before a truck passes and destroys the car. As a token of gratitude Finch employs Nat as his motel's handyman. What follows are a series of misadventures caused by Nat's smittening with Finch's wife Iris, a fight that was a joke and the final showdown with Finch where Nat loses and is then caught by the police since everyone who opposes with Finch is believed lost and then found dead, so Nat must have been lucky.
Soon we find out that Nat is probably mentally ill suffering of some personality disorder, and we are left to wander if his affection for Iris was one of his many delusions (in fact when he is taken to the mental hospital he often mumbles about the baby ostriches he'll never have).
Up until the last 30 minutes I liked most of the characters and the wicked humour, but in the last half-hour I felt sorry that Nat was taken to a mental hospital because I would have loved to see him achieve his dream of open a ostrich farm and maybe go away with Iris. The cast (Black, Coyote, Xander Berkeley, Kristen Bell and Michael Ironside) did a fine job with the material given but as I said, if it wasn't for the ending I would have given a higher score (and I was about to give it a 8).
Overall, not a bad movie but considering the ending I would have loved a re-write or an alternative ending.