Southland Tales with Dwayne Johnson: Blu-ray Cover

    Southland Tales Director: Richard Kelly Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Curtis Armstrong

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    • Blu-ray Release Date: 11/18/2008
    • Original Release: 2006
    • Rating: Rated R
    • Sales Rank: 30,012

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    "Usident TV: Surveilling the Southland" featurette; "This Is The Way The World Ends" Animated Short; ; Blu-ray Exclusive - Commentary with Writer/Director Richard Kelly; Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga Graphic Novel Gallery

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    California is at the epicenter of a political and environmental disaster that threatens to destroy the world in this ambitious fusion of comedy, drama, dystopian science fiction, and music from writer and director Richard Kelly, his first film after gaining a cult following with Donnie Darko. In the year 2005, a nuclear attack wipes out part of the state of Texas, and three years later America is a virtual police state, with the government taking control of nearly every part of people's lives, supposedly for their own good. A German firm has found a way to generate energy using seawater, but both public and private concerns are desperate to prevent the new technology from being introduced in the gasoline-starved United States. A Marxist underground based on the West Coast is determined to bring down the federal government through violent revolution.

    In this midst of this chaos, we follow a number of stories that continually return to three principle characters. Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock) is an actor famous for his role in action films; he's trying to secure financing for a new project, but reality keeps mirroring the events in his script and he struggles to hold on to his identity following a bout with amnesia. Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is a porn star who is reinventing herself as a television pundit offering her views on politics, contemporary culture, and teenage sex. And Roland Taverner (Seann William Scott) is an L.A. police officer whose identity has mysteriously split in two, and he struggles to track down his other half. Featuring a massive supporting cast which includes Mandy Moore, Miranda Richardson, Wallace Shawn, Jon Lovitz, Kevin Smith, Amy Poehler, and Justin Timberlake, Southland Tales received its world premiere at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival; director Kelly also created an accompanying series of three graphic novels that chart these events and characters prior to this story. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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    Lightning Doesn't Always Strike Twiceby edvardjr

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    July 10, 2009: Most people expected spectacular things from Richard Kelly after Donnie Darko, and what we got was a spectacular failure. The movie looks great. It really does. Visually there's something to admire in every scene. Likewise, the Moby soundtrack goes a long way. And because the visuals and soundtrack are so effective, they delude the viewer into thinking this is a good movie, but it's not. It thinks that it's funny, which it is not. Indeed, Kelly has assembled some of the funniest people of this generation, but all brought together in scenes apocolpytic in nature, NOTHING is remotely funny. It thinks itself a satire but it's never clear what Kelly is satirizing. And can we talk about plot? It either doesn't have one or thinks it has one (the latter more likely) because it's just so darn convoluted you keep trying to figure out what's going on. Because your mind is so busy trying to figure out the backwards/forwards science-fiction nature of the goings-on, you're never invested in the present scenes. The final result is a movie that looks great and SEEMS to be deep and intelligent but is completely hollow and all surface. You keep thinking, as the movie goes on, that it's going to justify itself, explain itself, have a giant revelation that puts everything into perspective, but there's none of that; it's just one giant mess. And because it's so confusing, the movie deceives you into thinking its more intelligent than it is. You'll rack you're brain trying to get everything into focus because you're sure there's brilliance behind the lunacy, but then you'll realize there's nothing there to hold on to. One of the biggest disapointments I've ever seen.

    This review was written about the DVD Wide Screen edition.

    A Fast Paced 'What If' Version of a Los Angeles Based Apocalypse!by Anonymous

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    March 23, 2008: SOUTHLAND TALES is, quite simply, bizarre. It resembles a futuristic comic book whose dismembered pages have been flung about the room, defying understanding of a plot, while providing some strange moments of entertainment mixed with metaphor and farce. If this grab bag concept of a film doesn't appeal, then skip this film. But for the adventuresome viewer this is a funny lollipop of a movie. July 4, 2005 and an atomic bomb explodes during the usual follies of the holiday. What happens from that point to the effects on contemporary Los Angeles is an amalgam of American responses to current events of potential annihilation of the country and the appearance of a lot of strange characters whose minds are either tethered by amnesia or by corrupted views of reality, or who are simply out of sync with what is happening. The cast for this bit of acidic and sour fluff that resembles disconnected fragments of the fertile imagination of writer director Richard Kelly ('Donnie Darko') includes a fine Dwayne Johnson (excellent here!), Seann William Scott, Nora Dunn, Miranda Richardson, Jon Lovitz, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mandy Moore, Justin Timberlake, John Larroquette, Christopher Lambert and many others. Just don't try to make sense of it and sit back and watch the crazy antics of a cast having fun with one view of the apocalypse. It is entertaining...Grady Harp

    This review was written about the DVD Wide Screen edition.