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Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

This is a very poor remake made worse by the fact I'm a fan of the original 1971 Wicker Man. Even if you ignore the comparison to the original what we have here is bad wooden occasionally over the top acting you be forgiven it was a cheesy 70s porno but without the sex (which in a way is worse because you don't to enjoy watching while excusing the bad acting). In its defence there is some topics which this film has which I think they should have made it their own such as the matriarchal society and how men are muted at birth and deprived an education to prevented from becoming a threat to their feminist system. For me the film did reminds me of how society become when the #MeToo movement gone wrong.

Haunted by a tragic accident, a policeman is called out to an isolated island community to search for a missing child only for the habitants' strange rituals and ceremonies to infuriate him which causes him to discover what the real reason was for the ceremony.This has a few considerable flaws going for it. One of the main issues is that there's a problem with the way the investigation is handled which is a huge factor due to the majority of the time this spends on the investigation. Since the film relies on the fact that everything around him is lying and he's being deceived quite obviously, this one goes for the society seemingly playing games with him from the start even if they appear to be trying to help him for the first half here. At the very end, he starts going around and throwing his weight around to make up for all the lies that were told to him which really seems like an act which should've been done sooner, especially after the reception received. It might've worked better and had better results if he had done something sooner rather than let the investigation get that way. This one carries on a joke far too long and really drags this out. Another pretty big flaw is that there are no real surprises to be had from this since it plays out exactly as it originally did, and all the surprises and fun to be had from that one are gone because it is so familiar. Even the plot twist doesn't surprise, which is the greatest flaw in here as the film is built up to a twist out of nowhere that has none of the fear and dread featured in the original, effectively ruining all the momentum it would've had going into it the same. Even the tagged-on epilogue is a failure, as the movie should've ended with the twist rather than the lame gag given here which manages to end this on an even more sour note. There's even way too much insistence on jump- cuts, and while there's some visual impact or shock effect they're a really irritating distraction. There's so many that it can become blasé which is deadening because there's too many of them. Alongside some truly cheesy and silly set-pieces, there are some really big holes as this gets very little right. One of them is that the opening really works for the film as the everyday normality it opens to is expertly shattered with a brutal and shocking crash, and the eventual race before the fire burns everything is handled with some nice suspense. The search at times can be quite fun, as there are some really good scenes in here that are derived from that, especially the sequence where he gets stuck in the underground cavern or the room covered with bees. It gets considerably more active and intense towards the end after the changeover to their celebrations as the revelry and costumes makes for quite a fun, cheesy time. These, though, constitute the film's only good points.Rated PG-13: Language and Violence.

The only reason why I'm giving this movie a 4 out of a 10 is because of Nicolas Cage's performance... which was comedic. You can't take this movie seriously. If it weren't for him, this movie would be god-awful. Watch it as a comedy, not as a horror movie. There is no horror in this, except for a few graphic scenes, but that's about it. Calling it a horror movie is an overstatement.Pros: Pretty actresses, Cage's funny performance. Cons: Story, "horror" moments.

Wow. My wife and I just sat through this nonsense on Netflix. My lovely wife loves Mr. Cage, but, oh my what a piece of dung. More than anything, this film makes no sense! What the heck were they thinking? Nic won an Oscar for crying out loud, and he is reduced to this mess. One positive is his, what must be intentional, over acting. He really takes it over the top in this one. He has plenty of company in this train wreck however, as everyone has taken the script to 11. Movies like this always have my wonder how folks get mixed up in movies this bad. I mean, Cage is taking anything and everything for a while now to get the IRS off his back, but who read this thing as was like, oh yeah this looks awesome. I don't have to worry about spoilers because I can't give any. I have no idea what this film is about, do yourself a solid and stay away.