Southland Tales
by Richard Kelly
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Actor: Carlos Amezcua, Curtis Armstrong, Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William ScottDirector: Richard Kelly
Brand: Sony
Writer: Richard Kelly
Producer: Bill Johnson
Producer: Bo Hyde
Producer: Dara Weintraub
Producer: Ernst-August Schnieder
Producer: Jim Seibel
Producer: Judd Payne
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 145 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Southland Tales
Movie Review: Still trying to figure out whether I liked it or not!
Summary: 3 Stars
Eclectic film that I swear I still don't fully understand. Part satire, part thriller, part comedy, part everything. Multiple jumbled-up storylines keep you confused through most of it. Some of the visuals and individual scenes were cool, but I'm still not sure how I feel about the film overall. No real rating from me, until I can at least read some outside opinions to help me sort it all out.
Summary of Southland Tales
Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and David Clark, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.Well, filmmakers should aim high, they say. And Richard Kelly shot the moon on his highly-anticipated follow-up to cult sensation Donnie Darko, which expands the apocalyptic mood of that movie and blows it up tenfold. Set during the election season of 2008, Southland Tales proposes a series of apparently linked events: the reappearance of a vanished movie star (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson), now an amnesiac; the bizarre doubling of a policeman (Seann William Scott in two roles); the development of an energy source from ocean waves; and the presence of an Iraq War veteran (Justin Timberlake) who seems to be watching everything, and narrating some of it. Not that the narration helps; even with voice-over (reportedly added after the film's disastrous debut at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival), Southland Tales doesn't come close to making sense, let alone at the minimum level of dangling a carrot to lead the audience along (even Mulholland Drive had a semblance of murder mystery to be solved, or not). The cast is loaded with Saturday Night Live cut-ups, but only Jon Lovitz connects, and in other roles people like Sarah Michelle Gellar, Christopher Lambert, Bai Ling, and John Larroquette are utterly mystifying, by no fault of their own. In some of the musical sequences Kelly gets in stride, but it's easy to create drama in a three-minute music video, and harder to do over two and a half hours. Some top critics rushed to champion the movie, as though flying in the face of philistinism, so feel free to try out this incoherent pastiche for yourself. --Robert Horton
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