Mystery Train

Director	Jim Jarmusch
Release year	1989
Genre	Comedy / Crime / Drama
My watch history	2023-01-15
Actors	Masatoshi Nagase, Yûki Kudô, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Cinqué Lee, Rufus Thomas, Jodie Markell
IMDB	IMDB

Review

Mostly interesting movie with comical elements what somehow feels too distracted.

Story starts well with two japan tourists. They have interesting characters and their trip to Memphis is fun to watch. Sadly the movie goes away from japanese tourists and starts to show another person and later there comes more other persons as well and there is multiple little different life stories tied together in same plot. Events happening on same time is shown multiple time by different perspective.

I can't remember quickly any movie what have this kind of storytelling style what I have liked very much, so it can be that I am just not a fan of this kind of style. When people heard gunshot it was kept mystery what happened until the almost end of movie. In that sense story worked and it was not predictable what is a good thing.

In the end I just didn't get much out of this movie because it felt too distracted since it was splitted in multiple life stories which didn't tied that well together. Whole Elvis-thing with ghost of Elvis just doesn't make sense to me. Surely it can be that it was just too deep for my understsanding, so it can make more sense to others.

In the end it was fun to watch even tho I didn't get much out of it. Only the japanese tourist couple was exciting for me.