Synopsis
An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a trumpet player down on his luck.
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Cast
- Megan FoxLily
- Mickey RourkeNate
- Bill MurrayHappy Shannon
- Rhys IfansSam
- Kelly LynchHarriet
- Chuck LiddellAldo
- Chris BrowningCecil
- Mark SivertsenWalt (Man #2)
- Rory CochraneRickey
- Frank BondMan #1 (with Walt)
Recommendations
- 65
Movieline
Fox and Rourke embody Lily and Nate's lost souls with vulnerability that's at once strikingly sincere and strange, particularly for two actors renowned for their impunity both on and off screen. - 63
New York Post
Even when scary, Murray is somehow funny, too, and he steals the show as always. - 50
IndieWire
The reality is that Passion Play has a few good ideas that simply don't hold together. More of a miscalculation than an outright dud, it takes the form of a wildly surreal western fantasy, something that Chilean madman Alejandro Jodorowsky ("El Topo") could have executed with more rigorous invention. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
If the degree of laughter at the wrong moments and the number of walkouts at the Toronto International Film Festival are any indication, the film will appeal only to the most fondly indulgent. - 30
Variety
Perversely eccentric and frequently inert, screenwriter Mitch Glazer's directorial debut, Passion Play, will benefit from some of the well-known names attached, but the near-painful hipness of the production will yield poisonous word of mouth. - 20
Time Out
You can take the phoenix-rising actor out of straight-to-video trash, but-well, you know the rest of it. - 16
The A.V. Club
Passion Play doesn't overreach so much as it overindulges in aimless pacing, inert acting, and a romance maudlin enough to make "Twilight" look restrained. - 10
Los Angeles Times
Inexplicably filmed in a handful of styles - including, bizarrely, obviously processed shots - by cinematographer Christopher Doyle, Passion Play would be midnight-movie fodder if it weren't so drearily wrapped up in its wounded-male aesthetic and a clumsy approach to art-movie moodiness that was abandoned in the '80s.
