FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

winopaul This is a quirky movie that moves slow but it is a nice story. Acting is fantastic. I see the movie did not get wide release and barely made its budget back. I assume this means no studio picked it up, which surprises me. There are tinges of humor, but they wisely didn't try to make it a failed Coen brothers movie, like Leaves of Grass. The tone is spot-on, and what really impressed me was how that yearning plaintive single guitar could make such a good soundtrack so much of the time.Spoiler: Its touching to think a trauma could have made that strapping young guy into a loner, but after his big speech, I was left thinking "You should have got out more, if you don't really enjoy all that solitude."

jefgain All were aligned in this film, acting, directing, writing et al. I have ADHD and I found the movie riveting. Aaron Schneider the director did a masterful job and the writers Chris Provenzano, C Gaby Mitchel and Scott Seeke did a great job. The actors, Robert Duval, Sissy Spacek, Lucas Black, Bill Cobbs and Lori Beth Edgeman were absolutely out standing. Bill Murray was off just a very very little but did a good job also. The film was nominated for a respectable amount of awards and won a couple, one for the first feature film from Independent Spirit Award to Schneider, Zanuck and Gundlach. I was disappointed to see no Oscar nod though. The story is about a Hermit (Duval) that wants to have a Funeral Party while he is alive. The story enfolds to tell us why he was a hermit.

Joe Kucharski (joker-4) Most times, as the cliché goes, the journey is just as important as the destination. These true words perfectly suit GET LOW, a Robert Duvall, Bill Murray flick helmed by first-timer Aaron Schneider. Duvall plays Felix Bush, a self-imposed hermit living out a self-imposed penance for a personal crime committed some 40 years back. Felix is nearing the end of his life and finally becomes curious at what the townsfolk think of him. Bill Murray and type-cast good ole boy Lucas Black play funeral directors who decide to help Felix throw a funeral while he's still alive. Those in attendance get to enter a raffle to win his incredible parcel of land. But what happens, as Felix prepares for death, is his acceptance of life.Duvall is a master at playing quiet, contemplative figures allowing his body language and facial expressions to tell the eloquent story of the script. GET LOW, as OPEN RANGE and THE APOSTLE did before, provides plenty of those quiet, introspective moments allowing the audience to see the pain of the character and wonder at his thoughts. The only criticality of the film is that Murray is rarely allowed to truly get going as the off-beat comedic genius he is (Wes Anderson, it appears, is the only current filmmaker that can give Murray full control of the open throttle). Much of the movie's comedy is attributed to him, but the character's secondary role to that of Duvall cannot shine as bright as it ought to. Also, for a film where stories are to be told of the not-quite-deceased, not many are told. Save Felix's own. But perhaps that's enough.GET LOW is a good story and a great character piece; moving and, perhaps, even redemptive, but not in a prime-time Disney-fied way. Instead, Duvall gets to say his... peace. After all, before one can soar high, one must get low.

Jin Maruhashi At the surface, "Get Low" converges upon the guilt-ridden life of Felix Bush, who has decided to alienate himself for over forty years in an attempt to pay for his mysterious and supposedly unpardonable crime. This reclusive lifestyle leads many folks from the nearby town to believing in a plethora of stories wherein Felix Bush is disreputably or villainously portrayed. Willing to confess to the whole community and wishing to end once and for all the tall tales that plague his name, Felix decides to arrange a funeral for himself by hiring Quinn funeral services (owned by Frank Quinn- Bill Murray) and incites the townspeople to attend by holding a raffle whose winner would inherit this pariah's shelter and land. At the funeral, Felix reveals the reason for his self-seclusion while the majority of his community tediously listens and counts down the minutes until the anxiously-awaited lottery. Brief instances later, the physical death of Felix Bush brings another funeral to life, this time with fewer but truer attendants to bid adieu to this curious hermit who died twice. "Getting lower" into the ground unveils the critique that is launched against society's unfortunate tendency to carelessly mold any type of hearsay into unchallenged fact and spread it from mind to mind, further intensifying the lie spawned by community. The initiative Felix Bush has of planning a funeral for himself while inviting all individuals who had been contaminated with one of society's lies about himself is symbolic not of his own death but the death of care and altruism that exists within the life of most individuals who exist passively in community. The rapaciousness of society is visibly accentuated by the stolid reaction of the townspeople who attend and listen to the heartfelt confession from Felix Bush and highlighted even further by their exclusive dissemination of joy only at the time of announcing the results of the raffle, which reveals their truly egotistical intentions. The contrasting alternation between the lifestyles of a common citizen from the town like Frank Quinn who seeks the profit motive and the reclusive one lead by Felix Bush shows how a life devoid of societal pressures revolves around learning to harmoniously coexist with nature's gifts- represented by the forest-covered location of Felix's shelter and his amiable interaction with the mule- and focuses on reflecting about one's past actions and learning to, above all, pardon oneself first. The revelation of Felix's darkest secret of being incapable to rescue the love of his life from the devastating flames ignited by her draconian husband emphasizes even further the pure and benign nature of an individual surviving outside the grip of communal existence. The bottom line: "Get Low" succeeds in grasping the viewers' attention right from the beginning by introducing a mysterious pariah that supposedly harms others in a variety of ways. Robert Duvall's talented performance exquisitely contributes to the audience's entertainment and the mystery sustaining this film. Though the middle acts focuses its efforts on rather tedious character interactions and Felix's secret may fail to impress those expecting a mind-blowing hit, "Get Low" is a film teeming with meaning that will never get low marks.