muons This is an OK movie with a decent cast and nice scenery from Mississippi river but not a masterpiece as some reviewers blow out of proportion. The acting was good and the story was engaging enough. The pace is in general slow but it's not entirely devoid of action as to put one to sleep. The focus is primarily on Tye Sheridan and M. McConahey and the strong bond between them. Indeed, I'm surprised Reese Witherspoon accepted that role which doesn't truly add much to the story. I wouldn't see it again but don't consider my time wasted either.

merelyaninnuendo MudIt scores highly and stands alone on its eerie perspective on conveying a tale to the viewers along with its all mixed up genre feature that hardly settles on an answer. Mud is profoundly written, explicitly executed and has some genuine dreadful characters that are given enough room to justify themselves on the plot offering enough range for the actors too to perform majestically. Jeff Nichols is brilliant in both of his job i.e. writing and directing and has an amazing cast star like Matthew McConaughey who is supported by brilliant kids and Michael Shannon and Sarah Paulson that helps him sail off this boat safe and easy to the shore. Mud; as said earlier, doesn't fit in a genre and hence helps the script to be unpredictable till the end leaving the audience mesmerized but has a bit of a trouble on its pace which is quite slow and it factors in a lot considering it is of more than 2 hours.

jaydeetee-19255 A teenage boy, who lives with his struggling parents on an old houseboat on a river in Louisiana, and his best friend discover an old boat resting in a tree on a nearby island. The boys, looking for adventure, decide to take owner-ship of the wrecked boat, only to find that a stranger, a man named Mud has other ideas about that boat. Mud (played by Matthew McConaughry) tells the two boys about his early life there in the same Louisiana locale, and about his love for the pretty girl he fell in love with in his youth. He then asks them to help in restoring the boat so that he can re-unite with his first love. The boys are at first apprehensive, but one of them, love struck with a girl a couple years older than himself, decides to help and his friend relents and goes along with the plan. They soon discover that Mud is a man on the run, but they still continue to assist him in his quest. This is a little coming-of-age tale with enough warmth and suspense to make a viewing well worthwhile. The cast is excellent, and the sense-of-place is near perfect.

seansworks There's little doubt MUD is well made. We can start with the cast. Whether it's McConaughey doing such an excellent job with oddity title character Mud that it revived his flagging career to the, as of this writing, up and coming star Tye Sheridan, to etc. etc. Well, point is everyone here gives a wonderful performance.And thanks to Nichol's writing and careful direction, and each actor's performance, we care about all these characters, or at least relate to them. And the low key, believable, and morally grey scenario these characters are put in feels interesting and keeps your attention. Which is not to say there's not a cinematic flare to the story, but simply that it's lower key than today's glut of explosion filled blockbusters. More Jaws and less Avengers is the order of the day, with no fantastical elements to speak of.And therein we get to the crux of the problem. Which is not the scenario itself, of two boys meeting the strangely charismatic, but wanted man Mud and having to decide whether to help him or not. But that this scenario, entirely unlike Jaws, plays itself out to an entirely unsatisfying, and even a bit off tone, conclusion.And I mention Jaws specifically because, like this movie, it's a fairly low key movie with a bit of cinematic flare but otherwise without any particularly fantastical elements. But to demonstrate what this movie lacks I'll go ahead and spoil Jaws, wherein we build up this challenge, this mountain that is this shark. Oh sure it's one shark, but for the characters involved it is their personal mountain, and the ending battle between them and it feels like the ultimate culmination of the movie. They came to the mountain, they saw the mountain, the mountain was conquered, and we feel a sense of satisfaction and completion once it is.By comparison, Mud almost forgets that there is a mountain. It hardly concentrates at all on Mud's situation and what it means for the kids. Instead the movie satisfies itself with building the characters in their own right and having each little side story get a huge amount of limelight. Which sounds fine until you come to the end, and the proverbial mountain comes for our characters, and you forgot it was there. And so the mountain showing up feels odd, it doesn't feel built up much. It feels, in short, like a guest you realized you invited a week ago, but have forgot to prepare for and in fact haven't even thought about all week, and so when they show up the entire visit feels rather awkward and uncomfortable.And with that awkward, and uncomfortable guest showing up, the movie ends. Flat, straight out ends. The mountain, the shark, killed. The conflict is resolved, and the characters go their separate ways. Oh we like the characters, or at least relate to them, plenty. But we don't feel any particular satisfaction in the end of the story. Because though the main thread of the story is at an end we were never that invested in it to begin with.Which is why, while I enjoyed the film 95% of the time while I was watching it, I also completely forgot it existed until its director came up in movie news with his next, Midnight Special.