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01/15/08
The Wicker Man (2006)
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Reviews Counted:100
Fresh:15
Rotten:85
Average Rating:3.5/10
Consensus: Puzzlingly misguided, Neil LaBute's update The Wicker Man struggles against unintentional comedy and fails.
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $23,607,080
Synopsis: Neil LaBute's THE WICKER MAN stars Nicholas Cage as Edward Malus, a policeman thrust into some dangerous detective work by a series of strange events that begin with a horrific car crash. This... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Molly Parker, Leelee Sobieski
Director: Neil LaBute
Reviews for The Wicker Man
Top CriticThis film falls into the 'good wierd' catagory-even if you don't care for it, you will love telling people about it.
09/15/06
I may be alone in this -- and you'll have to give it the benefit of a lot of doubt -- but I thought it was interesting.
09/07/06
This certainly won't be a favorite of Gloria Steinem.
09/01/06
...there's just something inherently entertaining about watching [Nicolas Cage] one-up himself every few minutes...
06/30/07
Though downgraded perhaps in comparison to the 1973 original, this version is competent enough and holds sufficient suspense.
09/03/06
A truly odd, yet unmistakably engaging, remake.
08/31/06
LaBute's remake could be an atonement, a perversely clever way of turning the gun on himself... or a conspiracy theorist's invective against a gender he fears and loathes.
10/13/06
LaBute does a decent job of translating it to 2006, but the idea behind it just isn't as cool as it once was.
08/31/06
...features an over-the-top leading man utilizing every single tic in his arsenal that has ever been impersonated by a comedian, and doing so seemingly with gleeful abandon and blissful unawareness
02/09/07
The plot is nonsensical but the cast and Edenic setting is worth a look.
09/07/06
It's a troubled strangeness - the uncommon sight of a literate studio film extolling messages most literate audiences can't get behind - that makes the movie's whole presence fascinating.
03/15/07
The whole thing is transparently a concoction, and so even though the movie holds you, its climax lacks that tingle of madness. All that's burning is some sticks.
09/02/06
Critics will readily seize on the new film's quirks and deem it a turkey. But the film has many (moderate) strengths.
09/01/06
A half-compelling, half-goofy and half-redundant piece of remake revisionism. (Yes, that's three halves, but it's that weird a movie.)
09/01/06
Human sacrifice and a stringent lesbian cult…what’s not to like?
09/03/06
The Wicker Man is comically inept as a horror movie, unable to even manage an effective false scare, or sustain suspense for more than a beat or two.
09/05/06
Top CriticThe sense of dread that should pervade every frame of film is nowhere to be found. It plays like an expensively produced commercial for some organic product grown with loving care by devotees of all-natural farming and/or animal husbandry
09/01/06
The blatancy of the outcome siphons any intended suspense, already padded by an overbearingly atmospheric score.
09/16/06
Instead of maintaining a mysterious tone to follow its suspenseful opening scenes, 'The Wicker Man' soon turns into something almost laughable.
09/02/06
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