Not a honey of a movie, hehe.
A retake on a 1973 film, Nicholas Cage stars in this horror flick. In my eyes, Nicholas Cage can do no wrong, UNTIL NOW. This was the worst movie I have wasted my time on in a long while. I could not believe when the credits rolled that I had spent a portion of my life on it. What is up with Cage? Is he broke or something? All I can say is that I am sorry for the other actors that had to work in this film, it was terrible.
If you are interested, a synopsis. I am not writing it myself, as I can not bear to even talk about it. I'd like to hear from someone who enjoyed this movie!!
Synopsis:
Out patrolling a California highway, police officer Edward Malus (Nicolas Cage) stops a station wagon to return a little girl's lost doll. Moments later, a runaway truck slams into the station wagon, igniting it into a fiery wreck with the mother and child trapped inside. Edward fails to save them before the car explodes...and then spends months of his life choking down pills to get the image of their faces out of his head. But Edward is about to get a second chance. A desperate letter from his former girlfriend, Willow (Kate Beahan), arrives at his home with no postmark. Willow came into his life and left just as unexpectedly years before. But now, her daughter Rowan has gone missing, and Edward is the only person she trusts to help locate her. She asks him to come to her home on a private island - Summersisle - a place with its own traditions where people observe a forgotten way of life. Edward seizes the opportunity to make his life right again, and soon finds himself on a seaplane bound for the islands of the Pacific Northwest. But nothing is what it seems on isolated Summersisle, where a culture, dominated by its matriarch Sister Summersisle (Ellen Burstyn), is bound together by arcane traditions and a pagan festival called "the Day of Death and Rebirth." The secretive people of Summersisle only ridicule his investigation, insisting that a child named Rowan never existed there... or if she ever did was no longer alive. But what Edward doesn't know is that Willow's plea for help has invited more into his life than a chance for redemption. In unraveling Summersisle's closely held secrets, Edward is drawn into a web of ancient traditions and murderous deceit, and each step he takes closer to the lost child brings him one step closer to the unspeakable. And one step closer to the Wicker Man.


Comments: 25
Thanks for the review.
I did not know it was a remake of an older horror film.
When the movie was over, I stared at the blank screen for 3 minutes solid thinking to myself....What the... (insert explicative here) ???
The sad thing was that it really had me going up until the last 20 minutes.
I analyzed the movie from every angle possible, thinking "maybe this was some comment on society or some such", but I just couldn't justify it.
Ah well, maybe Nicolas Cage will come up with something to make up for this trainwreck of a movie.
It has taken me a long time to get past Cage in Raising Arizona, I disliked that movie probably more than any other I've ever seen besides Fight Club -makes a face-
I won't be buying this one, but it was okay for what it was...
I'd never seen the original though I heard about it. I think you may be able to get a copy of the original but it would be in Europe's format. I know one of the newspapers over there gives out free DVD's with their Sunday editions sometimes and this was one of them. I don't have it, unfortunately. Will try to get it though.