Meeting their uncle, Deel Munn, who has been in prison a long ago and does not like their father, John Munn, who welcomes his brother and does his best to end the hatred between them, Chris and Tim Munn, who struggle against leaving their own country to an isolated one in Georgia, as they live a new experience in coping with their own problems.
Green's characters often find themselves in raw, unprotected moments, but Undertow also can feel a little too mesmerized by its own junkyard visions.
Sacramento News & Review
August 07, 2008
The actors grapple manfully with the ersatz rural poetry of the dialogue, but Green's pacing is slow and self-indulgent, and the action often departs from recognizable human behavior.
Green's signature pastoral tangents and codeine pacing don't slow down this tale of two boys fleeing their psychotic uncle so much as inappropriately slacken any of the story's suspenseful aspects.
While it has lulls and sleepy moments, Undertow also full of startling truths and beauties, as well as offering a window into a side of the country that movies rarely bother to look at.
There's certainly nothing wrong with trying to make a movie visually pleasing, but it shouldn't come until after there's a good plot and intriguing characters.
