Passion Play (2011)

Such a frustrating disappointment

Highly Overrated But Still Good

good back-story, and good acting

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

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).

In "Passion play," Nate(Mickey Rourke), a down and out trumpet player, might be lifeless In any other case for that intervention of the gaggle of yank Indian ninjas who remain impolite greater than enough not to give him a carry back again all over again into city.Hrs Later on, he stumbles across a touring sideshow. Only desirous to know wherever a phone is from Sam(Rhys Ifans), the barker, he receives additional than he might need at any time bargained for in the individual of Lily(Megan Fox), a winged ponder. On noticing that her wings are legitimate, Nate also discovers Sam and several Some Other people guiding him meaning to do him damage.As an alternative to it remaining ninjas this time, It is Lily who rides into the rescue during the pickup truck. In gratitude, Nate has Harriet(Kelly Lynch) develop a offer to further extra preserve his pores and skin with Joyful Shannon(Regular bill Murray)."Passion play" is unquestionably an oddly beguiling throwback for the periods of burlesque joints, touring carnivals, vinyl and mobsters.(Could or not it's any shock that a important late scene is about in a museum?) Fitting in perfectly with that topic is Megan Fox coupled with her standard superior looks, perhaps proving that she was born sixty to 70 yrs also late. In fact, Whatever the broad major big difference in their ages, Mickey Rourke and Megan Fox, both equally Hollywood outcasts, make a fantastic pair.

I feel it experienced a happy ending. Megan Fox and Mickey Rourke fly off together. A girl with angel wings is located by has continues to be musician, Rourke, who in the beginning would like to sell her to gangster, Murray, to who wants to destroy him for sleeping with his wife. But Rourke falls in enjoy with her. Portraying Monthly bill Murray as being a gangster was appealing. Rourke and Murray; the two actors that I admire and favor essentially the most. And Megan Fox, one of many sexiest Girls I have ever found.This movie is Weird, make little question about it, but it isn't horrible. I savored seeing Mickey Rourke and Invoice Murray and Megan Fox was additional competent than standard (possibly that's simply because she's enjoying a image relatively than a personality)

Passion Play isn't Awful, but it is not great possibly, in any way. Rourke, Murray and Ifans are actually wasted On this Film, but Rourke is actually the a person that is miscast listed here. I held taking a look at the clock so This might wrap up, induce the movie was boring at times. The script is not very good, the acting not horrible, but it did not assistance nearly anything, the story was inadequate and the rating is what can make this Film monotonous, the one music I liked was the aspect when Mickey Rourke's character was actively playing the trumpet for Lily (Megan Fox). Megan Fox was incredibly not the worst part of the movie, she failed to wreck this movie (at the least she's improving upon), what was definitely off was the 0% and forced chemistry among Fox and Rourke. It seriously felt like it had been compelled, there was no link, the really uncomfortable and Odd second was the intercourse scene, seriously negative. I'll provide the Film some thing: Bill Murray and Rhys Ifans tend to be the better part of the Motion picture, they no less than give very good performances, the message of somebody currently being a "freak" and eager to be normal, but whats gorgeous is on your own, but I've witnessed better videos with that message (see "The Elephant Person" superior), Megan Fox is improving upon her acting as well as cinematography. But a nasty script, a miscast male direct, a lackluster and pressured chemistry from its sales opportunities, a tedious score and an ending that leaves you ".....that..I'm not shopping for that" Enthusiasm Participate in leaves you believing that this movie skipped anything, and what it skipped was "enthusiasm"