Southland Tales

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I had high hopes for this movie since I loved Donnie Darko, which was also directed by Richard Kelly. While watching it though, my hopes were crushed as I could not believe this was the same director. Now I wonder if he can only make one good movie, which makes me sad.

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I have a hard time explaining what the movie is about to even describe it. It takes place in the near future and wants to be a satire, but doesn’t seem to based in reality. Dwayne Johnson plays an action star with amnesia that somehow gets entangled with Sarah Michelle Gellar’s character who is a porn star trying to get a reality show. I think she is hiding him from someone else, but I’m not positive. They could have just met randomly. I did enjoy the scenes with the porn star since they were funny, but I have no idea how they related to anything. There were also tons of other characters and storylines that happened, but I was confused what they had to do with anything and forgot most of them as soon as the movie was over. I really couldn’t wait for it to be over when I realized it was not going to make sense at any point.

The movie had one good thing in it though! It did have awesome music. That isn’t enough to save the movie and I can’t even recommend it to anyone ever.

Rating: F

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