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Dwayne Johnson
Seann William Scott
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Mandy Moore
Justin Timberlake
Nora Dunn

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Set in the very near future after a nuclear attack, the U.S. is in a state of lock down. Several people interact with the world around them In L.A. with a mixture of sci-fi, music, drama, and comedy.

11/30/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Kelly Stumbles After Darko.

Kelly tries to put too many ideas and personal beliefs in at one time. He has overstuffed, what could've been just a smooth, twist filled, sci-fi caper into a big mess. There are moments of genius and some good dark humor, but anything else is just lost. Some of the characters are played well and are intriguing. There are some nice twists close to the end, especially the one involving the sci-fi element of the film. Throughout the film I was sure that Kelly would tie everything up in a nice package for us that make sense, but only the (I guess main) character of the Rock's story is told with the nice sci-fi twist. The rest of the stuff that happens in the film feels like it served no purpose. Kelly intended for all the other stuff to be his comment on the world right now, but it didn't co...

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2/4 

08/29/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Too much story or no story?

Come on, everybody. "Southland Tales" is not as awful as you say.

Yeah, its interesting pieces don't add up to an entertaining whole, but you've got to cut a little slack for the genius who gave us "Donnie Darko".

I guess I don't understand the word "pretentious" in regards to this film. I mean, I don't think the writer-director was purposely trying to show off and I think there's some method to his madness. He suffered from a failure in execution.

Some parts I even flatout liked. For example, I don't know how or why he got so many Saturday Night Live people involved, but I thought it was great.

I won't recommend this one; too many people don't like it. But I'm going to appreciate it. Just a little bit.

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2.5/4 

06/17/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Terrible... At Best!

I hated this film with a passion. Fifteen minutes into it, I decided to be patient while it tried to set everything up because I saw its potential--it was aiming for something big and I always give those kinds of pictures a fighting chance. Thirty minutes into it, I was annoyed and kept waiting for it to get better. Forty-five minutes into it, I just wanted all of it to end because the acting is below par, the story is pretentious, and it insults the audiences by pretending to be smart even though it is plain inane and soporific. It tries too hard to be different but it ended up messy and random. In my opinion, there is no story, it is merely a compilation of distinct scenes that were supposed to make sense in the end... but it did not happen. I'm disappointed with Sarah Michelle Gellar ...

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1/4