Meek's Cutoff

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Brian T @RT12072505 6 days ago Realistic, but otherwise a boring slog. Ambiguous ending. Overall, don’t bother. See more G. W @RT56015321 Aug 30, 2026 What a pretentious, agonizingly slow slog that mistakes absolute monotony for profound art. The film completely shatters its own illusion of gritty historical realism with insulting, unrealistic plot points. Instead of delivering tension, the movie punishes the audience with two hours of helpless, stubborn characters making terrible decisions at a snail's pace, all filmed in a claustrophobic square box. It concludes with an infamous, abrupt cut to black that refuses to resolve whether the characters live or die. A lazy cop out of an ending to a film that is a complete waste of time. See more Tom F @RT55173143 Aug 24, 2026 A slow-moving story that draws you into a simple yet complicated survival story. Michelle Williams makes everything better. See more Red in D @redindenver Apr 20, 2026 This movie was just SO depressing! And to top it off, after sitting through what seemed like HOURS of watching wagons and women struggle across miles of hardship and deprivation in the desert, the ending was a NON ending -- where they leave it to our imagination, I guess, as to what came next. I wondered if they were planning to make a Meek's Cutoff Part 2. It's also making me wonder if the people responsible for this depressing vignette think that movie goers don't really want entertainment, and that you can get by without putting together a full story by just ending it at some point in time, by just leaving it to the viewers imagination. I was just mad that I'd wasted time watching this depressing mess and then didn't even get a resolution to the story. Why anyone would watch a part 2, let alone make a part 2, is beyond my understanding. See more Chris S @rotten60402 Mar 4, 2026 Very slow paced and conclusion fell short. See more Gray R @RT37695320 Sep 11, 2025 Some aspects of life in the past are not the least bit fascinating and can be imagined without the aid of such realism in cinema. The only thing I got out of it was that the people of the past were also at the mercy of smooth talkers who take advantage of those whose first inclination is to trust. I bought a used car from a man like Meek when I was young and too trusting. See more Read all reviews

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