The Long Shadow

This movie was long and boring. I found myself checking to see if it was almost over. It did have a little twist at the end, but overall I wish I hadn't wasted my time

A little sleepy southern town that was having most its residents selling their property for a railroad buy out. A woman was killed, incidentally, because a man could not win her love merely because the woman was a lesbian. That was a stretch, but he was drunk at the time which make rejections worse. Mostly unknown actors, except for Tess Harper. The movie helped to pass the time during the Covid-19 "Stay in the House" orders. Not bad.

The Long Shadow is an atmospheric whodunit set in Louisiana's Bayou country, starring the riveting Aasha Davis as a police officer investigating a murder in a small town where everyone knows everyone else and several have a motive. Some nice twists and red herrings. You can tell from the opening tracking shot that there are sure hands both behind and in front of the camera. A winner.

If you failed to finger the villain (sic: really bad person) ten minutes into this flick then you are either incredibly obtuse or remarkably blind of the obvious. And from the ten-minute-mark-on it was yawn city ... a collection of gratuitous cliches so pathetically predictable as-to actually bring into question the writers/producers/directors' motives for perpetrating such an insult upon the collective intelligence of their prospective audience ... all of us suckers in the end. There should be a -1 star, or less, rating made available for this "piece of work" ... and I mean that it the most patronizing of ways. You've been warned. You're wasting valuable minutes of your life should you choose to watch this monstrosity henceforth.

A young female Sheriff's in Louisiana ...when the woman she loves - an attorney fighting to stop a rail deal that threatens to displace the town's poor is murdered.....

I have to agree with many of the reviews listed. This is a horrible flick. If you are just looking for something to play in the background as you do literally ANYTHING ELSE, it is fantastic. The plot does not thicken and the acting is worse. If that doesn't deterrer you, then the slow motion scenes should. They made me motion sick. There are so many other ways for directors to show suspense like a descent script, having a good actress or actors, music. Honestly, I am not sure why I even gave this 2 stars. I couldn't watch past the first 30 minutes. I tried, I got sick. Hopefully, if you decide to forgo all of the warnings and watch this .. umm.... train wreck, you will take a motion sickness pill first!

I got into this movie from the start. Maybe it has so low a rating because the story involves a main character and her secret relationship with another woman. I like the pace because this isn't a Marvel movie. The music, lighting, locations all mimic the drowsy feel of the pace in a small Louisiana town. And, it's a portrait of the town, the people and their secrets. Very satisfying character piece. Don't be put off by the low score. I honestly think there's some bias because of the relationship between two women.