When you watch the full movie (I know you wouldn't) you'll suffer from anger and anxiety, because after the first half the things won't go in your way. And during the second half, most probably you'll quit watching the movie or you'll break the screen. I think the director was confused himself, like he started a good story and in the middle he was confused how to end it. So the best way he could find was to let the hero die with the bullet of his girlfriend's father. And the good reason that was given to the father to kill his daughter's boyfriend at the end was the fact that the boyfriend accidentally shot his girlfriend, so the father has to seek revenge or something like that. I don't know what the director wanted to tell the people about Harlan. Was he trying to tell that Harlan was a psychopath or was he trying to tell that Harlan was an ambitious & able guy who made a big mistake and didn't want to or wasn't able to accept it. The director couldn't made that clear. Because he has shown a sudden unpredictable behavior of Harlan, so i considered him a psychopath in the second half of the movie.Although the first half of the movie was really interesting and worth watching. The way that Harlan fell in love with Tobe was fabulous. And later how Harlan tries to convince Tobe's father about his personality and how his fate picturizes him in front of Tobe's father was really an interesting stuff to watch. But later the director wasn't able to handle the story. All the good taste developed in the first half was vanished in the second half.Another confusing thing was that the girl 'Tobe' didn't want to go with her boyfriend when he asks him to leave his father. It's not the thing the she didn't trust him or she was afraid of him. It's not like that because the Director David Jacobson showed a huge amount of passion in their relationship in the first half. And then the sudden unpredictable and stupid act of Harlan made me out of my mind, what i mean is that no matter what happens nobody can shoot the one whom he loves. What kind of heart he has got. These kind of issues in the movie are not explained in a good fashion leaving tangling questions in people's minds.And at last at the ending quarter of the movie, Harlan wasn't ready to accept his mistake so he took a kid (Tobe's step brother) with him. What's the point in that? Such a stupid ending. I would say if David Jacobson had thought about the story in a fresh air and calm environment he would do a lot better.

Edward Norton is fast becoming one of my favourite film actors. He has tremendous screen presence, as he demonstrated in "American History X" (which I saw for the first time recently). He is terrifically good in this film too. His co-star, Evan Rachel Wood, also gives a very good performance. Unfortunately, neither is able to rescue a film that is a stylistic mess and, ultimately, a rather dull watch. "Down in the Valley" is set in modern-day California, the valley of the title being San Fernando. It tells the story of Harlan Fairfax Carruthers (Norton), a young, likable drifter who is somewhat emotionally disturbed and who seems to think of himself as a sort of 21st century cowboy. While working at a petrol (gas) station, Harlan meets Tobe (Wood). Tobe - the name is short for October - is an attractive 18 year old student. She lives with her father Wade (David Morse) and her younger brother Lonnie (Rory Culkin). Wade is a single parent and, though strict, struggles to control his somewhat wayward adolescent daughter. Harlan gives up his job at the petrol station in order to go to the beach with Tobe and some of her high school friends. He and Tobe strike up an intimate relationship with each other, much to the disgust of Tobe's father who considers Harlan to be quite unsuitable boyfriend material for his daughter. Wade therefore tries to break up the relationship. Matters quickly spiral out of control from there.A major problem with "Down in the Valley" is that it just doesn't seem to know what sort of film it wants to be. It begins promisingly as an interesting character study under the guise of a modern cowboy story. It then seems to veer into psychological drama territory with elements of romance before finally mutating into a violent action movie replete with (in this instance, ludicrous) gun shoot-outs of the kind seen in many westerns. This weird and muddled amalgam of styles ruins the coherence of a film that is well-acted but poorly structured, scripted and directed. "Down in the Valley" is also a dull film. I didn't really care about any of the characters. What's more, little attempt is made to examine or explain the reasons for Harlan's seemingly eccentric and egotistical behaviour. A very disappointing movie. 4/10.

This movie has essentially one major flaw, which in the opinion of this viewer is a fatal flaw.It is not a flaw concerning plot holes or anything of that ilk, in fact it is a much more serious flaw than a simple 'goof.' The problem lies with the fact that the viewer does not care for any of the characters. There is no-one he can empathise with, no-one he can say he is on the side of. They are all just simply annoying.The voice over which we hear on occasions is more annoying than anything else.Norton and Morse do there best with the material, and both show they have some acting skills, but do we actually care about either character? We don't and so we watch the movie come to what is a fairly inevitable conclusion without much though for them at all.This one is pretty bad.

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