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The Wicker Man (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 97
Fresh: 15
Rotten:82
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: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release: Sep 1, 2006 Wide
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 incident leaves the cop haunted, with images of... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Molly Parker, Leelee Sobieski
Director: Neil LaBute
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08/25/07
This new version is boring, nonsensical, forgettable, and just a ninety minute episode of "CSI"...
07/10/07
...there's just something inherently entertaining about watching [Nicolas Cage] one-up himself every few minutes...
06/30/07
In the final act of The Wicker Man, when Nicolas Cage has donned a bear suit, you have to wonder just what it is you're watching.
03/24/07
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
...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 Wicker Man’s long journey through the decades and across the ocean has led somewhere no one could have predicted, or wanted.
12/30/06
By the time he's running through the woods in a bear suit, it's hard to take any of it seriously.
12/10/06
Neil LaBute -- who never met a story he couldn't turn into a paranoid castration fantasy -- dumbs things down enough to insult the stupid.
11/04/06
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
Neil LaBute's remake of the British horror classic is as wooden as its titular effigy... and wholly unnecessary.
09/23/06
The '73 film is brilliantly constructed and ends with a punctuation mark that was shocking in its day. LaBute's movie attempts to shock, as well, and does: Given the names involved and the casting of Cage, it is shockingly bad.
09/23/06
Top Critic Part of the original's effectiveness derived from the main character, whose strong religious convictions were ultimately used against him in the most sinister of ways, a dimension the new film is sorely lacking.
09/23/06
Nearly all of what made the 1973 film such an unforgettable cinematic experience is lost in translation.
09/23/06
Cage lumbers around in full-on shouty mode and his character is never particularly likeable ... whilst decent actresses like Frances Conroy and Ellen Burstyn are given very little to do beyond trying to keep a straight face.
09/23/06
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