Rotten
By the climax, his truly ambitious, truly flawed film finally disappears into the 'time-space rift' (or whatever) to achieve some sort of cosmic transcendence.
Jonathan Crocker, Time Out
Southland Tales
This is the way the world ends.
2007 · 2h 25m · R
Comedy, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Richard Kelly
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Southland Tales
Overview
Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, 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 Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.
Director and cast
- Richard Kelly Director
- Dwayne Johnson as Boxer Santaros
- Seann William Scott as Roland Taverner
- Sarah Michelle Gellar as Krysta Now
- Mandy Moore as Madeline Frost-Santaros
- Justin Timberlake as Private Pilot Abilene
- Miranda Richardson as Nana Mae Frost
- Wallace Shawn Cast
- Bai Ling Cast
- Nora Dunn Cast
- John Larroquette Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
40%
Tomatometer
Rotten
One of the most confusing, ridiculous, pretentious and disastrous cinematic train wrecks I've ever seen.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
By the time the movie rolls into its third hour, it's exhausted most of its comic energy, leaving you disoriented and unable to remember much of what you just saw.
Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News
Rotten
Immature, crude, poorly made and a waste of time.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Rotten
No amount of reworking could salvage what was a misbegotten and unfunny idea to begin with.
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
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