Southland Tales (2007)
2h 24m | PG-13
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: Richard Kelly
Studio: Cherry Road Films
Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller, Comedy
Video: 720p
Cast
Dwayne Johnson
as Boxer Santaros / Jericho Cane
Seann William Scott
as Roland Taverner / Ronald Taverner
Sarah Michelle Gellar
as Krysta Kapowski / Krysta Now
Mandy Moore
as Madeline Frost-Santaros
Justin Timberlake
as Private Pilot Abilene
Miranda Richardson
as Nana Mae Frost
Reviews
Saw this one many years ago and really didn't care much for it. Watching it again, now the 'Cannes Cut', I absolutely... hated it. A bit of a shame since I love Donnie Darko (the director's cut especially) and where that one managed to blend social commentary with end-of-the world science fiction pretty well, this one did not. In fact, it was a real mess. However the biggest issue, beyond being downright boring at times, where I liked the characters in Donnie Darko, here I really couldn't care less. I would compare Richard Kelly to someone like M. Night Shyamalan, but least he had a couple solid films after The Sixth Sense to hang his hat on, Kelley's films following Donnie Darko (including his third film, The Box), were just nonsensical pretentious messes. **1.5/5**