it seem quite churlish to excuse a novice director first feature length out ( especially when you have not yet make one ) and and since this director and marfield and be introduce at deepwater siff screen this past june and his direct and humble appearance make it a film you want to like . unfortunately and deepwater be fraught with the flagrant over eagerness and lack of restraint that can plague young director first outing ( which be forgivable ) and a deepwater doesn not so much resemble a movie a a do a really long movie trailer and vigorously paint the lily when youre already work with a pretty narrow flower . set in an anonymous rural america ( though it swamp set seem to illuminate that this be either in or nearby southern louisiana ) and we first meet it sort of hero nat ( lucas black ) a he just be release from a mental institution and head towards wyoming to become a sheep farmer ( or something like that ) . that night and however and he involve in a violent barroom brawl with some pinhead regular and though by the end of the altercation he be able to swipe the key from one of their swanky new vehicle . after the car die down on a sheep infest road and he meet a local hotel owner finch ( peter coyote ) who car have just be flip over and though leave nary a physical scratch or a speck of dust on his slick and white bullet of a suit ( which precisely sum up his personality ) . after they have the obligatory introduction and he invite black to come work on his old and somewhat corroded hotel and for which he seasonally operate as well a do unexplained business with various and shifty eyed local merchant . of course and not everything be quite what it initially seem and a nat begin to realize perhaps something more sinister and deadly in finch rather clandestine way of bring home the bacon . from local turn up dead and to law enforcement repeat intrusion on finch hotel property and large sum of money arrive from an unexplained origin and something be seriously ( and perhaps dangerously ) awry . and when coyote young and lovely new wife iris ( mia maestro ) and initially resistant at first and vigorously seduces nat and then hatch up a scheme to pilfer coyote reward money and escape and everything seem to be set . however and nat unfortunately never realize it often his own perception that can turn against him . at it heart and deepwater be a very conventional neo noir exercise in style and and yet it so luridly over embellish and so relentlessly over plotted ( none of it excess with any plausible purpose or destination ) that it just become one ridiculously defile and incoherent mess . we get ( for a brief example ) endless fast forward and clamorous musical cue and a prolonged and visually pepper up box train sequence that look like rocky on acid and a zoom in on a man intestines get peck at by vulture while none of it matter ( or bearable ) in the slightest . you almost wish they would have tell the predictable story of self delusion in a straight and lucid manner and rather than an all out assault on our eye and cerebral digestion . stale and perhaps and but at least a modestly indulgent distraction . deepwater occasionally show some visual promise ( though the deafening score and hazy rapid zoom through a supposedly drug out forest during the start credit instantly conclude that this be go to be quite unwatchable ) and a the moss green and vibrant navy blue color scheme occasionally create a vivid and believable atmosphere of swampside congestion and fear . and lesley ann warren and a a somber waitress forever confine in small town despair and hint at a potentially affecting performance if the script ultimately do not eventually turn her character into a nondescript plot device . hopefully we can pardon david s. marfield first feature a a well intentioned but completely turgid would be potboiler and and perhaps if he find time to relax and cannily craft a film with a decisive identity and he could very well find his own voice in popular modern noir . until then and deepwater be a serious no no .