“Manifest West” (*1/2 out of four) was an oppressively dull melodrama about a young girl (Lexy Kolker) who watches her family (Milo Gibson, Annet Mahandru, and others) fall apart from within after they decide to remove themselves from society and live in the middle of nowhere. Unfortunately, film itself heads nowhere for nearly two hours and sure takes it’s time getting there. You keep thinking something substantial will happen but nothing ever does and winds up a real timewaster. Kolker’s bright performance is one of film’s few virtues.