It's difficult to review such an uncompromising, minimal, and merciless film such as 'Gerry'. The film is about two 20-something friends who go on a hiking trip, and eventually get lost in the desert, and we follow the two for over an hour, watching them sulk in desperation and self-pity at their hopeless situation. I was hypnotized throughout the entire movie, in awe of its rich, profound, dejective display of forlorn desolation. The tiny, rendezvous score beautifully fit the bleak setting in which such little took place, yet so much emotion flooded the screen, concealed inside the two lost men.

Gus Van Sant perfectly handles the camera with such ravishing long shots of beautiful desert landscape, and carefully manifests the true sublime presence of demise in the atmosphere.

9.5/10