By the end of Walking to Werner, we are no worse off but we are not much better either.
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09/04/07
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Walking to Werner (2007)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:5
Rotten:8
Average Rating:5.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: Linas Phillips proves his devotion to legendary director Werner Herzog with this documentary about making films and making choices. Phillips embarks on an epic quest as he walks from Seattle,... [More]
Director: Linas Phillips
Reviews for Walking to Werner
1 - 13 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
[Subject] Phillips is a lot better at walking than talking, and his musings seem especially insipid intercut with audio clips of Herzog's sage observations.
08/10/07
The real interest in the film is not the journey or even Linas Phillips, but the people he meets on the way.
08/10/07
Top CriticEven the most ardent Herzog admirer may want to hail this fledgling documentarian a cab and call it a day.
08/09/07
Despite the callow, self-absorbed aspects of Phillips' undertaking, there's something endearing about his determination to recreate -- and then some -- a 30-year-old gesture that looked nutty then and only looks nuttier now.
07/20/07
It's an impressive odyssey, but the film -- which alternates between Phillips' ceaseless ramblings and interviews with the predictably eccentric folks he meets on the road -- plays like a prolonged death march.
07/20/07
Phillips's trip begins as an attention-grabbing show of devotion but transforms into a many-sided experiment in empathy.
07/20/07
The high-strung antics of Linas Phillips, who films his hike from Seattle to Los Angeles to meet Werner Herzog, may strike some as a noble spiritual undertaking, but others will find it an exercise in indulgent self-absorption.
07/20/07
Top CriticThe documentary Walking to Werner is a deeply self-reflexive work, perpetually at risk of disappearing into its own iris.
07/20/07
Top CriticPhillips's singular determination is not unlike that of the artist he aspires to meet.
07/20/07
Less successful than his Ross McElwee–isms are the first-person diary entries, which swerve from gonzo to narcissistic in a blink -- especially in the cringeworthy moments when Phillips seems convinced he’s one of Herzog’s angry visionaries ŕ la Aguirre.
07/19/07
Walking to Werner flirts with becoming an ordeal.
06/29/07
It's the closest thing to a cinematic religious experience I can think of -- all combined with Phillips' terrific sense of visual style, humor and willingness to risk life for art.
06/29/07
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