Southland Tales

Destination Films | Release Date: November 14, 2007

6.1	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 91 Ratings

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JeremyTDec 20, 2007

I refused for a long time to listen to the bad press this movie was getting. After almost a year and a half of eating, i finally saw it, and realized that the movie really IS a cinematic turd. Some people went in WANTING to see art, so, like I refused for a long time to listen to the bad press this movie was getting. After almost a year and a half of eating, i finally saw it, and realized that the movie really IS a cinematic turd. Some people went in WANTING to see art, so, like an inkblot test, they saw it. I refuse to let the movie confuse me into submission. It isn't a TOTAL waste, Lou Taylor Pucci and Mandy Moore give decent performances, and Cheri Oteri is good, but almost everything else is just garbage. Note to readers of this: Randomness is NOT a substitute for greatness.… Expand

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SarahDNov 20, 2007

Bad movie, way too long. I would have left early but my bf wanted to see it through.

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ClintJ.Aug 2, 2008

Wow. can I have those minutes back to my life? Big words have been used to prop this "film" up but those are by people who feel as though if they dont understand the film they are not sophisticated enough or enlightened enough. The fact is I Wow. can I have those minutes back to my life? Big words have been used to prop this "film" up but those are by people who feel as though if they dont understand the film they are not sophisticated enough or enlightened enough. The fact is I you like drugs and are on them this film is for you. If you only have 2 hours of free time because you work hard and are not currently taking prescription mecds or doing drugs--leave it alone and go watch pulp fiction again.… Expand

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ChristG.Nov 13, 2007

The only good thing about this movie is that it eventually ends.

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JohnTJan 3, 2008

Southland Tales is like a Philip Dick adaptation by someone who doesn't understand what's interesting about Philip Dick. It's unfortunate that the critical discussion of the film has otherwise been divided into two camps: Southland Tales is like a Philip Dick adaptation by someone who doesn't understand what's interesting about Philip Dick. It's unfortunate that the critical discussion of the film has otherwise been divided into two camps: middlebrow reviewers who "don't get it" and the sharper blades who, shockingly, embrace the film as ambitious and full of ideas despite the fact that it possesses the aesthetic sophistication of a Limp Bizkit album cover and the political cunning of that loud-mouthed libertarian kid from your junior-high civics class. Also, who knew a movie about the apocalypse could be so boring?… Expand

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CWhitesideApr 6, 2008

Honestly, this is perhaps the most disappointing movie I have ever seen.

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ryancarroll88Aug 27, 2010

why, why, why, why, why?
Note to directors: if you're going to film whatever **** flies through your brain, at least have the common decency to make the final product less than 2 hours. That being said, it was probably the most well-actedwhy, why, why, why, why?
Note to directors: if you're going to film whatever **** flies through your brain, at least have the common decency to make the final product less than 2 hours. That being said, it was probably the most well-acted roles I had seen by most of the big-name actors in the movie (most notably Justin Timberlake). But still, why!?… Expand

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ourtimehascomeMay 8, 2018

Southland Tales is completely incoherent. It lacks any logic whatsoever. It is the perfect example of a writer/director thinking he can handle too much at once.

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TimG.Jun 9, 2008

What. The. Hell. I'm going to be honest, I only watched the first hour, so if this film exploded into a mass of coherent plot and storyline after this point, then I apologise. But I had to turn it off because I was getting genuinely What. The. Hell. I'm going to be honest, I only watched the first hour, so if this film exploded into a mass of coherent plot and storyline after this point, then I apologise. But I had to turn it off because I was getting genuinely angry with it. The film starts with some sort of nuclear attack seen through a camcorder at a garden party, and I thought then that the film could be great - just my thing, but I was so wrong. The next thing we know, we're in the not so distant future, but a future that looks like the year 3000. There didn't seem to be a reason for that. Characters appeared randomly without explanation, The Rock is apparently an actor who needs to drive around with some cop, while his porn star girlfriend (Sarah M-G) rambles about some premonition for the future. Why did Rock need to drive around with him? Who knows, because it wasn't deemed important enough to explain. Was the country in a state of nuclear war? Again, no idea, because an hour in all we'd seen was one explosion in the first minute. The only hint that they might have been at war was all the nice shiny metal things, and fancy computers. I was left with no idea who any of the characters were, what they were doing, why they were doing it, or how any of them had anything to do with a nuclear war. My assumption was that Justin Timberlake was shoved in as a narraror because the story line was so weak that without him him it would have been nonsense. Unfortunately his part involved talking nonsense. I want my hour back.… Expand

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DavidM.Sep 28, 2008

In with a bullet to the top of my Top10 Worst Films of all time, Eeeegad...how Kelly managed to get one dime to fund this sucker is beyond belief? Amazing thing, hype.

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StanUNov 19, 2007

A mess is what this turned out to be. I'm all for experiments and stylistic/tonal shifts but this was just too much and too much of it. Couldn't care less about the characters and the plot itself seemed like a uninteresting A mess is what this turned out to be. I'm all for experiments and stylistic/tonal shifts but this was just too much and too much of it. Couldn't care less about the characters and the plot itself seemed like a uninteresting exercise in threading the points with no regard for the audience. I'm no hater but it's just not very good.… Expand

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DaneB.Apr 24, 2008

How is the average a 6.3. This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I don't care what type of point it was trying to get across, it failed horribly.

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NerdConsultantOct 20, 2014

this movie is a pretentious waste with nothing to say, terrible casting, and beyond terrible plot as well a dialogue that plain sucks it amazes that this film has fans because this was so hard to sit through and i felt like the movie wasthis movie is a pretentious waste with nothing to say, terrible casting, and beyond terrible plot as well a dialogue that plain sucks it amazes that this film has fans because this was so hard to sit through and i felt like the movie was calling me stupid for not getting "how deep and complex this movie is" but belive me it isn't you it's the movie IT MAKES NO SENSE!… Expand

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BroyaxJan 27, 2017

Tiens donc, il y a Sarah Michelle ! celle qui jouait dans Bouffy. Bah alors le téléphone ne sonne plus ? son rôle est cela dit à l'aune de son talent puisqu'elle incarne une cruche mais ça doit être du second degré. Ou du troisième. Et leTiens donc, il y a Sarah Michelle ! celle qui jouait dans Bouffy. Bah alors le téléphone ne sonne plus ? son rôle est cela dit à l'aune de son talent puisqu'elle incarne une cruche mais ça doit être du second degré. Ou du troisième. Et le gros con, qu'est-ce qu'il fout là ? monsieur gonflette canard Johnson qui ferait sans nul doute bien plus forte impression dans un gros plan de publicité sur une cuvette de chiottes. Parce que là aussi, il irradie le film de son aura avec ses deux expressions : sourcils froncés ou yeux écarquillés. Je le préfère avec les yeux en billes de Loto, il le fait bien, on devrait le garder pour le super tirage.

A part ces deux clowns, qu'est-ce que c'est que ce foutoir de film ? ils ont fumé tout le stock de Saint-Maclou ou quoi ? et ça n'en finit pas en plus, deux heures et demi ! ça déborde de prétention, tout ça pour raconter de la merde au final. Quelle purge !… Expand

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