Rapa Nui (1994)

After watching this movie one can only wonder why hasn't anyone heard of this what was happening in 1994 the overshadowed this movie. Was it a lack of promotion the presumably R rating?.I found this to be an excellent film all the characters main and supporting are very intriguing the setting is breathtaking , and the actors all played their roles superbly and with passion.I did not find a problem with the English speaking actors I feel the director wanted to get the point of the movie across without tiring the audience out by having to read subtitles.This is a movie after all not real life, one cant expect things to be exact.This movie is far different then most of what Hollywood churns out the plot is simple as the time the movie takes place the story is very believable and understandable with some historical elements thrown in. As one watches this film they will come to see that's there's no simple answer to the protagonist problems they will have to take them selves back to that time and place.As far as a love story goes i feel its an epic one easily as touching if not more so then Star Wars or Titanic, Also similar to 10,000 BC. Its shame that such a good movie seems to have gone virtually unheard of.

Years before the arriving of the conquerors, the Easter Island lives before a civil war, ancient cults mixed with nihilistic behaviour crash into the island. All mixed with a pseudo ecological message and some stupid jokes. Noro is the son of the chief of Easter Island, he wants to marry Ramana, but, before, he has to win the Egg Race, a race in which he will risk his life in order to chose who will be the chief during the next year. Meanwhile, the slaves are permitted to take part in the race by first time, and the runner wants to marry also Ramana, this will cause the race to be absolutely decisive for the future of the island. It also happens that the current chief lives moaris (mystic meaning) and in the process of building them, they are eradicating the trees that are on the island, and soon there will be anyone and the island will become a desert. With all these plots mixed, it was possible that the movie was interesting, but it results to be very confusing and boring. None of the stories develops correctly and it provokes the movie to be terribly slow and predictable. In addition the actors are not very good, and most of the time you can only see the darkness of the night, as they did not know about fire. To sum up, a long boring film that you should avoid to watch to. The only interesting thing are the precious environment it is filmed.

You have to look at this film differently; of course you can not take what is being showed to us as the true history of the easter island, but you also can't look at it as just some failed flick. No, this movie is taking as little as we know and fills the rest with partly far fetched, partly very realistic developments of events. We know, there is no more forest there, we know they've built these statues, we know that they couldn't survive. It would be different if any of them would have written a diary of the events taking place, but that hasn't happened. Whether long or short ears, whether upper or lower class: To build the statues they most likely used all the little forest they had left... surely an act of hopelessness... that in such a situation of distress there is competition and different ideas on how to react is obvious. The "egg"-race is also very believable. Less likely is the story about the iceberg... while they do indeed show up there from time to time the particular timing is over the top. With what they have filled in the blanks has already been discussed: Competition between two rival tribes, political problems that eventually not only end up in the deforestation and the ecological disaster related to it, but also degrade of a civilization leading them backwards even as far as cannibalism. History has shown what can cause uproars: from class-systems, lack of food, but also fight over a woman. Here all three aspects have been mingled up, blurring what we do not know anyways. And as far as nudity goes: guess what - we all born that way - believe it or not! As far as language goes: I had preferred if they tried to talk in some sort of made up language and then subtitled. This movie is a gem in its own right, but you will have to watch it - sceptically, yet with a mind open for fantasy - for yourself to see if you agree or not.

This movie was a complete lie. for starters let me clue some of you in on this, the researchers who study Easter island only have theories as to how these people came to be there, who they were, and how they lived. and none of those hypothesies have anything in common with this ''long-ear'' ''short-ear'' light skinned, dark skinned malarki that the writers dreamt up. one woman said ''this movie gives an in depth look into who these people were, and how and why they built the statues''..i think you might want to make a trip to your local library, use that 5lb hunk of gray matter and read a book instead of believing a so-called ancient legend of history dreampt up by a bunch of crazed american writers and producers. use your mind for just a milli-sec pleeeeease!! if these people made humungous statues, were so smart [they'd have to be to erect those statues] and so spiritually indulgent why would they force one segment of their own people into slavery, exile and force them to erect those enormous statues just becase their skin was dark, and their ears were short!!? it's so funny how so-called histortians contradict each other..they're so full of it,it's sickening. i just watched a documentary of swimming and beaches on THE LEARNING CHANNEL and accoriding to WHITE historians the Romans were the first to swim in the ocean for fun and sport because all other ''savage'' people thought it brought sea monsters and disease. but in RAPA NUI you can clearly see them [the natives] swimming for fun and surfboarding for christ's sake!In short this ranks up there with all the b******t sterotype pieces of fake ethnic b-movies from ''SHAKA ZULU'' the mini-series to ''KUNG FU''they're all taken from the imaginations of complete gits.