There is metaphysical wonderment to the image of a figure traversing the desert.
This pretext makes their need to clash all the more enjoyably absurd.
After all, like the Bard, Jack loves motiveless malignity.
But the caricatures of Hollywood are often drawn so broadly that these sequences approach more camp than insight.
Its the battle of wills between two figures of immense bombast that steersMojavetoward a more palpable oasis.
In these dueling roles, Hedlund is a wide-eyed, latter-day SoCal John Ford.
And its in this context that Monahan works through some bad creative mojo of his own.
For that reason,Mojaveis mostly worthy trek into a gnarly patch of wilderness.
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Rating:
3 out of 5
