Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Southland Tales


An apocalyptic post-911 world is presented in this film. Nuclear bombs have been set off in the US and World War III is in full swing. The country is mired in paranoia and is on the brink of implosion. One man, Boxer Santaros (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) has a vision of the coming apocalypse. The answer to stopping it might lie in the screenplay he wrote with a porn star (Sarah Michelle Gellar). Sounds quirky and interesting, doesn't it? But when it is translated onto the screen through the American satire sieve it loses all it coolness.

Rating: +

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