"Acting" is what makes a movie great, not special effects or pyrotechnics like in so many mindless BLOCK BUSTERS that take in hundreds of millions of dollars. They are a waste of time. Get Low shows Robert Duvall at his best, like so many of his movies. Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek and Lucas Black also turn in memorable performances. I am not giving away the plot, just watch the movie and you will see some marvelous acting that is well done.

Art direction, photography and costumes are close to excellent. The cast is perfect and actors do incredible job. Now the "movie". It's terrible. For all those aspiring graduates you absolutely have to analyze this "piece of art" it's a perfect example of how to not edit the movie. I don't know, maybe they lost some footage one the way, or there was nobody to supervise the investment, or they where out of time to review the golden, who cares. The point is that it's out there to be amaze the audience. If you like great cast movies you have to see this one! Because it is truly amazing how someone can throw a Disney party with couple of millions and super hi-tech cameras!

Robert Duvall is one of my all-time favorite actors and here he gives a worthy performance as a person suffering guilt, a self-imposed 40 year social exile of being a hermit, and a search for redemption (shades of his "The Apostle" and "Tender Mercies") -- themes he apparently treasures.In this story, word of the death of an acquaintance prompts elderly Felix (Duvall) to think of his own passing and make plans for it. He's been a hermit for 40 years (for reasons revealed at the end of the film) and such a thoroughly cantankerous old codger that the townspeople trade stories and speculate about him.Felix visits the local undertaker (Bill Murray), an oleaginous salesman who'll do anything to make a buck. Felix wants his funeral service before he dies and the undertaker arranges it. The acting of Duvall and Murray make the film come alive and worthwhile. Any other competent actors would have made it a dud.Set in Georgia in the early 1930s (soon after the stock market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression), those world events seem to have no effect on these people. Never mind, the joy of the movie is seeing these two actors display their wares.

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.