There may be a way to remake 1973's cult thriller THE WICKER MAN, in which a deeply Christian cop has his religious convictions shaken to the core as he investigates the disappearance of a child from within a cheerfully pagan community, but Neil LaBute didn't find it. In the course of reworking renowned playwright Anthony Shaffer's script, he not only leached all the subtextual tension from its none-too-baffling mystery, but replaced it with a misogyny so vicious that it fairly demands that you cheer when Nicolas Cage's frustrated California highway patrolman cold-cocks a series of uppity women. Edward Malus (pronounced "male"-us, nudge, nudge) is on medical leave af...
Released:
2006
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
106 mins