In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.
An achingly beautiful movie and a triumph of location scouting, with more cosmopolitan spectacle than the past three Indiana Jones and James Bond movies combined.
– Peter Hartlaub,
San Francisco Chronicle,
30 May 2008
rotten:
Pace and Untaru generate an unforced chemistry that makes them pleasant company for a couple of hours, but they almost work against the movie's need to establish narrative tension. They appear to be having such a good time that Roy's self-destructive impu
– John Hartl,
Seattle Times,
30 May 2008
fresh:
The pacing drags and the cliched tussle between childhood innocence and adult disillusionment can only go one way. Better to experience it than think about it, fair to say.
– Trevor Johnston,
Time Out,
3 Oct 2008
fresh:
The girl and the hospital patients and staff also turn up in his improvised adventure, extravagantly garbed by costume designer Eiko Ishioka.
– Bill Stamets,
Chicago Reader,
17 Dec 2008
fresh:
...a movie that not only expected me to pay attention, it assumed that I could.