A weird but not wonderful black and white Western, ponderously paced throughout. Johnny Depp, doing his Buster Keaton act left over from Benny & Joon, is William Blake, easterner out West who, finding the job promised to him as an accountant has been filled weeks before, takes up with a flower seller (Mili Avital) has to shoot her ex (Gabriel Byrne) and wanders, lonely as a cloud, though an over-brightly shot Western landscape. Along the way he acquires, in the company of an American Indian called Nobody (Gary Farmer), a quite unexpected reputation as a killer and desperado. In years to come, Byrne, John Hurt (over-acting dreadfully), Lance Henriksen, Alfred Molina, Billy Bob Thornton, Steve Buscemi and others may come to wonder what they were doing in such pretentious, semi-surrealist tosh. Neil Young's clangorous music may drive you nuts long before Blake's final fate is settled. Not good.

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