Overrated

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

I enjoyed the part where he punched a bunch of people.

The Wicker Man is a so bad it becomes good movie starring Nicholas Cage as he continues his descent into B movie schlock in order to pay off his tax bills. The film concerns a policeman whose daughter goes missing and he is lead to an island where neo pagans live and thrive. The film has become known for its unintentional hilarity which includes scenes such as Nicholas Cage punching a woman wearing a bear suit and the infamous "not the bees" scene. You can watch this just to see what an unintentionally campy film can be.

A painful attitude of many big studios is that tried material is trusted material and prime for turning into a revenue stream...sorry, an exciting new take on a story the director/write/lead just loved as a kid.Part of the reason the original worked was because the story isn't a horror story, it's a suspense story. Unfortunately, this film tries to use the modern horror style and it falls flat. Nicolas Cage delivers a Nicolas Cage performance but it's not suited to the pace of the story. The cast do their best with what they're given but the fault lies in the tone. Avoid, watch the original.

Neil LaBute's re-imagining of the 1973 classic horror serves as just another representation of horror remakes falling deeply interior in their original outing, with scares that more often than provoke unintentional laughter than spine chills; and not in an effective way incorporated in comedy-horror hybrids. The film never rises at the surface level of the cinematically inept, and instead relies heavily on a poorly executed plot and a script that falls shallow of nuance but feels sorely miscalculated at the point of leaving the average scratching their head pondering "What was director LaBute thinking?". And a laughably incompetent performance uprooted by Nicolas Cage certainly doesn't do much justice. So this film follows Seattle police officer Edward Malus (played by Nicolas Cage) recovering from an horrendous when he is informed by his ex-wife Willow Woodard (played by Kate Beahan) that her daughter Rowan has gone missing. This lead Edward on the investigation to a mysterious island for the missing girl, but discovers the island inhabited by individuals of a mysterious paganistic cult lead by Sister Summersisle (played by Ellen Burstyn) who apparently represents the goddess. Upon learning the nefarious dangers of the cult, Edward must discover the terrifying their terrifying secret and save the little girl from the sinister cult.After sitting through an hour of this, I honestly could have not tell if this film was supposed to be dark comedy or just a poorly conceived supernatural horror flick. Though it supposedly falls in the latter category, it really makes you wonder if its possible the movie suffers from a identity crisis. Why is this? The poster showing a terrifying, Exorcist-like image of the little girl leads you to believe you're for a spine-chilling thriller, but Neil LaBute's misguided direction proves otherwise. As the film deals with the lead character investigating an island influenced by paganism, and practice human sacrifices for reasons vaguably explained. The idea would be interesting enough if the story actually took the time to vividly explain some of the concepts other than occasional commentary on the Salem Witch Trials, or maybe if the plot made much sense before descending into a misguided mess. While the first film put religious conflict as the central theme of it's plot, this installment replaces the theme with women rebelling against men which frankly fails work here. The idea is is profoundly interesting on paper but when Neil LaBute's translates it on screen, it results in 102-minutes of unintentional comedy and lack of scares. From there on, we are forced to endure a plot that not only grows silly before the first hour, but also an over-the-top performance by Nicolas Cage who's scenes of hollering at Kate Beahan are painfully unconvincing, and scenes of his character being threatened by a crowd of pagans, that don't even amount to the slightest suspense. And it doesn't certainly doesn't help that his character is poorly drawn, engages in cheesy, and takes a hateful audacity of hitting women in multiple scenes. The Wicker Man is sorely incompetent remake of the 1973 horror classic with nothing to offer but a sheer lack of authenticity and scares. This film is laughably bad to the point of only being worth enjoying on a guilty pleasure level. But if you are looking for a good horror film with good scares and plenty of smarts, you are probably best looking further. For a list of the worst movies of 2006, this one definitely fills in a position.