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Jan 25, 2014pegasus71 rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Sean Penn plays Cheyenne, an aging once famous rock star who hasn’t performed in 20 years and who is living off his money on a large estate in Dublin with his wife of 30 years played by Frances McDormand. With his characterization most likely based on an actual person, Penn sports a disheveled black fright wig, eye makeup and lipstick (looks like a refugee from KISS) and speaks in a dreary slow monotone voice, appearing as if his brain has been fried from many years of drug abuse. While it all may be very authentic, the performance yields at any rate a very dreary, uninteresting, and irritating character. Overall, I found the film a meaningless fusion of themes involving a pathetic has been rock star, atonement for an estranged father-son relationship, and some sort of confusing and bizarre Holocaust reconciliation narrative. The only bright spot in the film were some occasionally beautiful photographs of the West in scenes involving Cheyenne’s road trip.