Southland Tales

22/9/2007 2h 25m 5.2/10

Overview

Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

Director

Tim Trella

Top Billed Cast

Dwayne Johnson

Boxer Santaros / Jericho Cane

Mandy Moore

Madeline Frost-Santaros

Seann William Scott

Roland Taverner / Ronald Taverner

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Krysta Kapowski / Krysta Now

Justin Timberlake

Private Pilot Abilene

Miranda Richardson

Nana Mae Frost

Reviews

JPV852

3/29/2021

3/10

Saw this one many years ago and really didn't care much for it. Watching it again, now the 'Cannes Cut', I absolutely... hated it. A bit of a shame since I love Donnie Darko (the director's cut especially) and where that one managed to blend social commentary with end-of-the world science fiction pretty well, this one did not. In fact, it was a real mess. However the biggest issue, beyond being downright boring at times, where I liked the characters in Donnie Darko, here I really couldn't care less. I would compare Richard Kelly to someone like M. Night Shyamalan, but least he had a couple solid films after The Sixth Sense to hang his hat on, Kelley's films following Donnie Darko (including his third film, The Box), were just nonsensical pretentious messes. **1.5/5**