Passion Play (2011)

This is a slow moving neo-noir modern western. Mickey Rourke plays Nate Poole, a jazz player has-been who has been caught with a mobster's wife. He is taken out into the desert to be shot when suddenly a group of Native Americans, dressed in white, shoot his killer. Nate walks until he reaches a sideshow carnival, complete with a woman with huge angel wings (Meagan Fox) named Lily Luster (short for Lilith, a fallen angel?). As the carnies are ready to kill Poole, Lily rescues him.Rhys Ifans plays Sam Adamo (another Biblical reference as Lilith in mythology was Adam's first wife). He is the head carny and Lily's caretaker. Nate plans to exploit Meagan by going back to the mobster Happy Shannon (Bill Murray) who is anything but happy, as he is a "recent widower." Nate is aided by Harriet (Kelly Lynch) who runs the "Dream Lounge" in case you thought we were running out of symbols/metaphors. Oh yes, Happy's real name is "Michael" like the angel.Poole seems to ruin his chance for redemption when he decides to exploit "angel." The movie contains tons of slow, seemingly useless, endless dialouge. The Sartre ending was expected as soon as the first shot was fired. This is more of an "indie" style movie or perhaps an "art" film. I think everybody will find something boring in this film in spite of the haphazard use of metaphors.F-bombs, one dimly lit sex scene, nudity (not Meagan).

A jazz musician (Mickey Rourke) falls in love with an angel (Megan Fox) and pursues her relentlessly, after he stumbles upon a roadside attraction in the middle of nowhere. He was brought to the middle of nowhere by an assassin who was supposed to kill him because he was sleeping with a gangster's woman (Kelly Lynch). But a bunch of Indians rescue him.Megan fox looked great. But an aging Kelly Lynch looked better than her. Mickey Rourke was cool. But the guy isn't aging well. Bill Murray was unremarkable at best.Passion Play is a confused mess of a film that alternates between a Rob Zombie movie with roadside attractions and a stylish city based gangster flick.I loved the background score.For once, the IMDb rating is perfect. I don't know how Mickey Rourke zeroes in on these masterpieces.(5/10)

When "Passion play" premiered to the Toronto World Movie Pageant in September, it grew to be the write-up of quickly derision. Broad variety recognized the "about-uncomfortable hipness," even though Observe considered it "insignificant a good deal greater than a whimsical curio." The lousy buzz snowballed in to the approaching start of "Passion play" on DVD next a very transient constrained theatrical operate. Its journey into your no-male's land of straight-to-Motion picture was probably secured by star Mickey Rourke, who instructed a The big apple journal reporter in April that "Passion play" was "a wonderful Movie." He later on ate his phrases, Nevertheless the destruction was completed.The reality is often that "Passion play" has a couple of fantastic Suggestions that simply just Will never maintain alongside one another.Lots a lot more of the miscalculation than an outright dud, it would require the form of a wildly surreal western fantasy, a point that Chilean madman Alejandro Jodorowsky ("El Topo") could have executed with much more arduous invention.Author-director Mitch Glazer, even so, screenwriter of "The Recruit," falls again on lifeless archetypes and uninteresting melodrama within a story that either begs to reject People today acquainted substances or excel at them.

Bill Murray participating in the Component of a ruthless gangster, someway I do not see that taking place and it did not in this movie. Mickey Rouke played excellent component but receives uglier as time goes on. Mickey Rourke plays a washed up trumpet participant Nate, who on the opening on the film is being taken on the desert to become killed, in some way the hit male is shot by a band of Indians. Nate stumbles upon a caravel as he wanders throughout the desert and discovers Lily a Girls with wings, is she an angle? Now the Carney individuals desire to kill Nate, Satisfied Shannon hopes to kill Nate so begins the story with twist and turns and is particularly it true? I give it three 1/two stars