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The theme is great, because Mark Lanegan was a great singer, the rest of the show is just a sad man, talking to people, who's life stories apply to 0.1% of the population.

Anthony was very obviously a troubled soul. A depressed drug addict and an alcoholic. (Yeah..many interesting people are..)

He had an immense talent in finding the most obscure subcultures and talking about them throughout the episode, as if they mattered.

"Yemeni trans gender rappers in Budapest, how do they feel about the cruelty of WW2, while eating a langos off a paper tray at a bus station at 4am. Or a nihilist self harming interpretative dance street theatre group director in Peru, who is exiled from Romania, will take you to his favourite baby mud wrestling show, where they serve sausage on a bread" - well, I am exaggerating, but only slightly.

Rome has almost 3000 years of history, yet the whole episode is about fascism, that was over in less than 20 years. The family he dines with has Buddha statue by their dinner table, 0.6% of Italians are Buddhists, while 79% are Roman Catholics.

It's always like this. He doesn't talk to real people, always the most obscure individuals, he finds fascinating, for whatever reason.

The food is probably authentic, because the places look very "local", but the background/the backstory is always very weird.

"But that what Parts Unknown means. It's about unique places and unique people...blah blah blah" - hanging out with these sort of people and focusing on all the weird stuff, helps to explain his demise.

...at least keep the noise down.

This is literally one of the films, I would watch to the end under these circumstances only: you put a gun to my head, you hold my family member hostage, you pay me a lot of money (hey, I like this option much better than the rest, hit me up - start a GFM for a few hundred thousand $ and I'll give it another shot), you end a war (also pretty good). At the moment, I can't think of other reasons.

I've watched probably thousands of horror and "horror" films over the decades, as I watch at least one, but probably around 3 every week, some I've seen many times, some I just barely watched the one time. Even the most low budget films usually have at least something. At least it's funny, how badly it's done, or something.

This one I've attempted in 2005, and again yesterday.

The corniest behaviours, the ciggy, the pathetic bad boy attitude (like the redhead guy from csi, or whatever the show is, that pulls down his shades - that's the level of corniness), the useless characters, that add absolutely nothing, the lowest rent special effect demons - just put a guy there, who looks menacing and says "I am demon" (or he can have a "demon" name tag on his shirt? Still more believable and scary, than anything in this film, instead of the "swarm of cockroaches demon", or whatever that was supposed to be.

I get, that there's Keanu Reeves fanboys and fangirls, good for you. Apparently, he's a good guy in real life - which is fantastic..but this film is still lame. I get, that there's comic book fans, but this was "meh"-er, than the "meh"-est episode of Supernatural, and I've seen all of them..and there were some pretty meh episodes there.

The hell effects were well done. That's the only reason, why it doesn't get 1*, but 2.

Fargo, great film. Would watch anytime. The Big Lebowsky, detto, No Country for old men - wow, what a film.

But this thing..Oh, brother.. I can't say this is one of the worst films, I've ever seen, because I couldn't possibly finish it, but those about 40 minutes I've tried to pay attention, I will never get back. It's one of the films, you'd have to literally pay me, or hold my family hostage, for me to continue watching.

The good out of the way - the music/singing was nice. OK, and since I go to every vintage car show in the area, the old cars looked nice too. That's it.

The storyline is silly, the dialogues, behaviour, the situations they find themselves in, are ridiculous - but not in a good, funny way. Absurd and ridiculous comedies can be very funny - this was not.

(For example Monty Python's Life of Brian - when Brian fell off the tower and landed into an alien spaceship - that just happened to be passing by that very moment, now that was obviously absurd (as you'd expect), but hilarious. To me anyway. For somebody else, Monty Python's might be 1/10.)

I wholeheartedly believe, although I will get thumbs down for this, whoever claims they actually like this film, they're just pretending. There's no way..

I've seen some horrible films over the decades, but even they had some redeeming quality, other than music..and cars.

The way they escaped, the way the ran in the beginning..the way they...escaped again, after the sheriff randomly decided to burn somebody's private property to the ground (??), for no reason, instead of just arresting them, how the guy's cousin's son saved them, how they somehow stole another car, picked up the musician, recorded a song on the way, as if it was nothing, without any practising, in one take (maybe Coen brothers said to themselves, "hey, if we can just pull this film out of our a 5 5, without any thought whatsoever, maybe these prisoner guys could record a song the same way" - the difference is, the song was performed very well..by whoever performed it..), ditched the musician somehow - did they show this? Maybe I slept through, so who knows...- met a crazy bank robber, sirens, john goodman guy...an average Dukes of Hazzard episode, which is otherwise just just lazy, easy watching, when you're nodding off, is top notch comedy and film making, compare to this film.