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(1 - 29) of 29 OFCS Rating: 7% Rotten Page   1   "Instead of maintaining a mysterious tone to follow its suspenseful opening scenes, 'The Wicker Man' soon turns into something almost laughable."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker D- "In the remake, LaBute has Cage beating up women with karate kicks, and has placed an insulting coda on the film that screams of studio intervention of the worst kind. This is not progress."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf ""Every time I turn my head," he sputters, "there's something that doesn't make any sense." Exactly."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/4 "Neil LaBute's remake of the British horror classic is as wooden as its titular effigy... and wholly unnecessary."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   David N. Butterworth 2.5/4 "...there's just something inherently entertaining about watching [Nicolas Cage] one-up himself every few minutes..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair D "Ill-advised Hollywood remake."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 1.5/4 "Strips away all that was fascinatingly subtextual and deliciously provocative about that unforgettably moody 1973 cult masterpiece, and then pisses on its bare corpse."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman D+ "I don't know whether this remake is faithful. Did the original include a scene in which the leading man puts on a bear costume in an effort to infiltrate cultists?"   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2/4 "This new version is boring, nonsensical, forgettable, and just a ninety minute episode of "CSI"..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. 1.5/4 "LaBute's meandering and goofy-minded horror/suspense thriller Wicker will garner more spontaneous chuckles than an overactive feather tickling a sensitive underarm."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng D- "The most risible backwoods thriller since M. Night Shyamalan traveled to The Village."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1.5/4 "Despite retaining significant chunks of Shaffer's dialogue to go along with the basic story structure, LaBute has transformed the eerie, disturbing psychological thriller into an unintentional comedy."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/5 "Part of the original's effectiveness derived from the main character, whose strong religious convictions were ultimately used against him in the most sinister of ways, a dimension the new film is sorely lacking."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick "Neil LaBute's remake of The Wicker Man is a stupid, stupid movie."   Pajiba   Jeremy C. Fox 4/10 "By the time he's running through the woods in a bear suit, it's hard to take any of it seriously."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio "LaBute comes out with both barrels blazing, but his remake misfires."   Light Views   John Larsen 2/5 "click to read full review"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 2/5 "There are also moments that are so unintentionally funny I wish they'd bring back Mystery Science Theater 3000 to give this movie a good ribbing."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr D+ "...Burstyn simply should have known that any film that required her to make up like Mel Gibson in Braveheart and run through fields flapping her arms was a bad move."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 1.5/4 "[LaBute] turns Shaffer's compelling war of beliefs -- doctrinaire Calvinism vs. dogmatic animism, each as rewarding and demanding as the other -- into a wishy-washy clash between 'normal society' and womynist weirdos."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh "I'd look more kindly on Neil LaBute's profoundly silly movie... if I thought he meant any of it in jest, if any of it were winking at us even a little."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2.5/4 "All in all, I would categorize The Wicker Man as an interesting failure."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan D "The gimmicky horror-flick conventions ultimately drag the film to a screeching halt."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 1.5/4 "All the fertility rites in the secluded Pacific Northwest island of Summersisle can't bring life to Neil Labute's barren remake of 1973's The Wicker Man."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 2.5/5 "I can see where LaBute is going...but the end result is unintentionally hilarious"   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 1/5 "I've seen many ill-advised horror remakes in my time. The Wicker Man may be the worst ever."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves D+ "LaBute's art-house misogyny + Warner Bros' need for a late-summer horror flick + a niche mood exercise that doesn't exactly scream for the multiplex treatment = one big mess."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux 3/5 "A half-compelling, half-goofy and half-redundant piece of remake revisionism. (Yes, that's three halves, but it's that weird a movie.)"   Cinematical   Scott Weinberg 1/4 "If a successful marriage were ever engineered to join this artist's personal Heaven and Hell, these late cinematic offspring might finally be as vigorous as his firstborn."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 29) of 29 OFCS Rating: 7% Rotten Page   1