Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Dwayne JohnsonBoxer Santaros / Jericho Cane
- Seann William ScottRoland Taverner / Ronald Taverner
- Sarah Michelle GellarKrysta Kapowski / Krysta Now
- Justin TimberlakePrivate Pilot Abilene
- Mandy MooreMadeline Frost-Santaros
- Will SassoFortunio Balducci
- Jon LovitzBart Bookman
- Beth GrantDr. Inga Von Westphalen
- Jill RitchieShoshana Kapowski
- Bai LingSerpentine
Recommandations
- 70
Salon
If it arrives in final form as (still) a total mess, it's such a passionate and ambitious mess -- overcrowded with extraordinary images, incomprehensible ideas, literary and pop-cultural references and colliding subplots -- that it transcends its adolescent awkwardness and approaches being magnificent. - 70
Village Voice
In its willful, self-involved eccentricity, Southland Tales is really something else. Kelly's movie may not be entirely coherent, but that's because there's so much it wants to say. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
Southland Tales has a mood unlike anything I've seen: dread that morphs into kitsch and then back again. It's a film that tried my patience, and one I couldn't shake off. - 60
L.A. Weekly
Southland Tales pilfers large chunks of its plot and visual style from Alex Cox’s "Repo Man," Kathryn Bigelow’s "Strange Days" and Shane Carruth’s Sundance-winning "Primer," and unlike the makers of those films, Kelly hasn’t digested his influences and made them his own -- he’s more like the slacker college kid who’s just enough of an intellectual poseur to bluff his way to an A. That said, Southland Tales isn’t entirely without its pleasures, chiefly The Rock. - 60
Los Angeles Times
You get the sense that Kelly is too angry to really find any of it funny. It's easy to empathize with his position, not so easy to remain engrossed in a film that's occasionally inspired but ultimately manic and scattered. - 50
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Love it or laugh at it, you will gaze on Southland Tales with awe. - 40
Film Threat
The film is just too much exposition, too long, too convoluted, too many characters and ultimately a huge disappointment. - 38
Premiere
There's a lot of "stuff" here, and Kelly's biggest problem -- he's got more than a few -- is that he can't tell his good material from his bad.
