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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Jun 2, 2008
Pros: Interesting initial set-up. Lovely scenery.
Cons: REALLY POOR Nic Cage performance. A silly script.
Summary: THE WICKER MAN is a bad movie in ways that are inexcusable. It had a decent budget and an attractive, experienced cast. It had a creepy setting and a good set up. What it didn't have was a credible script or tight execution. Nicholas Cage plays a ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 9, 2013
Pros: Unintentionally hilarious, Nicolas Cage's terrible acting
Cons: Uh, well, the movie
Summary: The Wicker Man is one of my favorite "so bad it's good" films. I feel weird giving such a poorly made film a high rating, but the absurdity of its bad parts had me laughing so hard that it actually gained a huge entertainment value for me.I ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 10, 2012
Pros: Good mystery, creepy feel, beautiful setting
Cons: Some costumes were off, pace is slow
Summary: This 2006 movie, a re-make of a 1973 British film, starts off with a California Highway Police motorcycle officer seeing a doll fly out of a heavily-packed station wagon. He picks up the doll and pulls the car over, finding a woman driving and a ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 8, 2010
Pros: not much unless you are looking for humor
Cons: Cage should be embarrassed
Summary: I have never seen the original release of Wicker Man so I went into this totally on the merits of Nicholas Cage and Ellen Burstyn. Whoa, they do make some weird movie choices, I’ll give them that.Cage, playing the part of Edward ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 7, 2007
Pros: some nice scenery shots
Cons: weak plot, unnatural character responses, over-acting
Summary: I enjoy the actor Nicolas Cage. So it was with great anticipation that I watched The Wicker Man. That anticipation died a burning death. The Plot – Minor Spoilers Edward Malus is a police officer. About ten years ago, his ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 26, 2007
Pros: Unique, engrossing, well acted, stunning conclusion
Cons: None.
Summary: Whilst attempting to overcome the severe trauma of witnessing the horrific deaths of a mother and child as they burned to death trapped within their car, policemen Edward Malus receives a plaintive letter from his ex-fiancé, telling him that her young ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 24, 2007
Pros: It held my attention
Cons: Ridiculously horrible performance by Nick Cage
Summary: When it pours and rains, I like to do things like get caught up on my movie watching and reading, (and laundry, but that can somehow always wait.) Of course, I've read absolutely horrid reviews on the 2006 version of The Wicker Man with Nicholas ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 7, 2007
Pros: Ummmm......
Cons: Obvious conclusion, excessively violent and brutal in "alternative" ending.
Summary: I had no idea this film was a remake of an older one until the credits stated so at the beginning. I also had no idea at all of how different this version is from the original until I read several reviews of the original here on epinions. Never having ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 13, 2007
Pros: pretty pictures
Cons: inept remake
Summary: This remake of the 1973 cult horror classic will remind you of the phrase, "I want my two hours back." The Wicker Man (2006) is a horror thriller that feels three decades old, a kind of vanity project catapulted to the big screen by Nicholas Cage's love ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 20, 2006
Pros: Leelee Sobieski was in it (been a long time since i've seen her)
Cons: Boring, Drawn out, Foolish decisions by Cage's character, Unrealistic
Summary: It really pains me to say this, being the big Nicholas Cage fan I am, but this movie was absolutely horrible. I spent the whole movie just waiting for it to get good. But it never did, one disappointment after another. A movie should really only allow ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 19, 2006
Pros: The overacting here is something special.
Cons: Unintentionally hilarious, with an ending that does not work in this "comedy."
Summary: With "The Wicker Man," there is a strange predicament with me. Here we have a movie that is so campily bad that not even I can recommend it. Oh sure, I can belt out positive reviews for "SS Hell Camp," "Asylum of Satan," and "Abby," but Neil LaBute's ... read more
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Rated Show by the Epinions community Mar 22, 2007
Pros: Nicholas Cage owned the part and played it well.
Cons: Sadly Nicholas Cage was the only good thing about the movie.
Summary: This was a total waste of my time and I feel dumber after watching it. And, just when the plot looked like it was going to throw a curve at you, there was an instant let down when the same boring pointless plot kept dragging on. This overly long movie
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