14 January 2009

The Wicker Man (2006)

Since the turn of the century, Nicolas Cage has starred in some of the stupidest movies of the past ten years. But the 2006 remake of the 1973 classic is arguably the worst among them.

Cage stars as Edward Malus, a California police officer who finds himself wandering around an island off the coast of Washington looking for his lost daughter. The island, inhabited entirely by women and bees, doesn't have a lot going on. Neither does the movie. Cage just kind of wanders from place to place like he's the main character in a graphic adventure game, coming across different adventures on his futile (and ultimately meaningless) search for the little girl. His co-star, Kate Beahan, stammers and stumbles through her lines, evidently trying to vamp until the film reaches its 102 minute runtime and they can just kill Malus off once and for all. And as boring as the action is, there's something strangely hypnotic about watching all that inertia, and it's worth watching the whole thing for one of the most hilarious final shots of a movie, ever.

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