Darrell Bryant

I intended, as an Oscar Issac fan, to watch about five minutes of this film, just to get a sense of it . . . and was sucked into its vortex. My measure of a film is: would I care to watch it again. In this case: YES. Garret Hedlund as Tom and Oscar Isaac as Jack Jackson, the former character, Tom, a Hollywood star with everything, the latter, Jack, an off the grid highly intelligent desert rat (who is likely a serial killer at large), inhabit a life and death struggle world of their own creation that in context I recognized as not unlike that of Ahab, that sea captain of literature--named after an ancient king of Israel--and Moby-dick, the great white whale of myth and legend. The exchange of philosophical and oft times existential questions between these two screen characters as they race toward that "die dame'd whale" moment is in itself worth the ride. Watch the first five minutes of it. Post Script: "Mojave" has an all-star cast of supporting players, some great Mexican desert footage and gives one an impressive peek into some spectacular Beverly Hills 'Mc Mansions'. -- Darrell Bryant author of Geronimo's Bones