The Wicker Man (Unrated) [2006]
Neil LaBute
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Plot Summary
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 - Summers isle - a place with its own traditions where people observe a forgotten way of life.
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Producers
- Nicolas Cage
- Boaz Davidson
- Randall Emmett
- Norm Golightly
- Avi Lerner
- John Thompson
Movie Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
TOMATOMETER
15%- Reviews Counted: 105
- Fresh: 16
- Rotten: 89
- Average Rating: 3.6/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: 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.
Rotten: Yet another needless 're-imagining' of a '70s cult fave that, truth to tell, is better remembered than actually viewed, Neil LaBute's folly follows the basic plot outline of the 1974 Brit horror opus of the same title.
Rotten: LaBute's remake is an interesting idea that never transforms into a particularly satisfying movie.
Rotten: Far more ambitious and stylish than most of today's horror crop, Neil LaBute's remake of the 1973 U.K. cult classic The Wicker Man unfortunately still falls far short of its mark.
Customer Reviews
Look On The Bright Side
I watched this movie as if it were and comedy and didn't take it seriously from the start. If you approch The Wickerman this why it is a pretty decend comedy.
Nicolas Cage has transcended stupidity
At first I thought that Cage was a bad actor in bad movies. This used to be a good example. But now I realize he's not trying to be serious; Nicolas Cage is a method comedian. Since figuring this out, he's suddenly one of the greatest actors of all time (I am not, however talking about the Nicolas Cage in National Treasure) because he's a junkie. And for those of you who are naysayers, I have a rebuttal: MY HAIR IS A BIRD YOUR ARGUEMENT IS INVALID This is not a good movie in any way unless you look at Cage as a thirty-six piece of comedic awesome. Once you do, you will laugh your a*s off. Thank you for your time.
Unwatchable.
I can't imagine there's a film worse than this.
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- $9.99
- Genre: Thriller
- Released: 2006
- © 2006 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All rights reserved.
