Southland Tales

This movie, maybe more than any other I've seen, is a commitment. If you think that 144 minutes is a lot to commit to a movie, the running time is only the tip of the iceberg.In the DVD cut of... Full review

WTF did I just spend 2 hours and 24 minutes watching. I am thoroughly disappointed as doodoo right now. If you wish to want to kill yourself at the end of this movie, like every character in this movie, go ahead... Full review

I am a big fan of almost all the actors that played in this movie, but what were they thinking when they agreed to make this movie? It is like watching a bad skit on SNL that last 2 hours. If... Full review

Saw this movie last night, came into it with an open mind because I've been waiting a long time to see this. One thing is 4sure this movie will have you thinking, but not in a good way. YOull think WTF... Full review

Richard Kelley has obviously been juggling alot of ideas in his head and he tries to commit all of them to film in this mind bender. I totally adored this movie; everyone in it is spot on. Johnson and Gellar have... Full review

This is the way the world ends. Not with a whimper, but with a bang.This is a film about all of the seemingly random events that lead up to the end of the world. And it's also a comedy.That says... Full review

Southland Tales plays like the nightmarish counterpart to Dude Wears My Car - linked by Sean William Scott it similarly dabbles in Apocalyptic scenarios, other dimensions, memory loss and seemingly share many of the 'sci-fi' costumes from DWMC. It is clear... Full review

You can get a pretty good idea of Southland Tales from a quick description of its characters. Dwayne Johnson plays Boxer Santaros, a movie star in Richard Kelly's all-too-near dystopian future. But it's not that straightforward. Johnson plays The Rock... Full review

Note well and full: my rating of 10/10 is for the combination of the graphic novel "prequel saga," which is nothing less than the *first half of the story*, and the movie itself. I'm not sure if it makes sense... Full review

overly-ambitious? probably. puzzlingly dense? certainly. meandering and confusing? absolutely. SOUTHLAND TALES, richard kelly's much-maligned, oft-questioned, studio-crippled but still hotly-anticipated follow-up to DONNIE DARKO is guilty of most of the accusations that critics have hurled at it.indeed, it's a mess -... Full review

The movie badly needs some quieter moments, perhaps punctuated by a reflective visual, but they pretty much never come. So much has been shoved into the picture that it lacks breathing room, instead persistently haranguing the audience with new details and obfuscated plot developments. ... Full Review

Whatever the reason, the still two-and-a-half-hour film is so jumbled, enervating and downright boring that were pretty certain youll be tempted to head for the bathroom and never come back. Sadly, hes made just that movie with Southland Tales; in fact, he explains himself in three graphic novels and a large Web site, the prequel to the movie that we apparently should have investigated beforehand since the film is supposed to be the last three chapters of the saga. ... Full Review

I was a much bigger fan of DARKOs soundtrack than the impenetrably gloomy movie itself. Theyre two beautiful fools dancing to the coming apocalypse like its 1999- or make that 2008 in the case of SOUTHLAND TALES. ... Full Review

But sadly, Southland Tales is a disjointed, muddled mess. Ambitious and arresting to the eye -- the gray palette serves the film well -- it's too bad that Southland Tales is also pretentious. And not because the director doesn't have any talent. ... Full Review

Dismissing the film solely on the basis that it bites off more than it can chew would be to ignore the many areas where it does succeed. had bothered to make any sense out of the story ... Full Review

Posted by: on March4,2008 at 22:53:39 I thought it was pretty good, DARKO FANS, COMEDY, ACTION, and SCI-FI fans should see thisCUTvie its really fun and cool. ... Full Article

Kelly's dystopic vision lacks for affect but not F/X, a curious mix of the familiar and the what-the-fuck: The CGI-reliant news reports that frequently interrupt the movieparlaying information about the gasoline-replacing product Fluid Karma, state borders being policed against god-knows-who,... ... Full Article

I'm no pessimist, and there's definitely some great stuff on the way, including a trio of first-rate horror flicks I caught at the Toronto Film Festival: George A. ... Full Article

They've left it late, but writer-director Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) and his team have gone and scooped The Independent's Worst Film of 2007 award against stiff competition, too. ... Full Article

A nuclear attack on Texas triggers World War III (sponsored by Hustler magazine). Meanwhile, an amnesiac movie star called Boxer (The Rock), who may be The One, writes a sci-fi script with his porn-star mistress (Sarah Michelle Gellar), who is ... Full Article