Passion Play
An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a former successful trumpet player down on his luck.
31 October 1945, Chicago, Illinois, USA
28 February 1972, Syracuse, New York, USA
6 May 1968, Edmond, Oklahoma, USA
21 September 1950, Wilmette, Illinois, USA
12 April 1979, Pirmasens, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
5 March 1963, New York City, New York, USA
January 16, 2012
This often risible mood piece stars Megan Fox as a circus sideshow attraction who has actual angel wings growing out of her back. Rather than doing the sensible thing and joining the X-Men, she instead decides to make out with Mickey Rourke. Go figure.July 13, 2011
Perhaps it's needless to say, but Rourke and Fox are a thoroughly mismatched screen couple, who exude zero screen chemistry with one another.May 08, 2011
The net effect is as if someone had set out to imitate a David Lynch movie without ever having seen one, or as if it had been directed by Wim Wenders (which is approximately the same thing).June 03, 2011
Peculiarly bad. It's one of those total misfires that wanders so far off the track that you're left scratching your head.May 06, 2011
Conjuring magic, it goes abracadabra and snaps its fingers, but nothing happens.May 11, 2011
This underworld fairy tale is so soggy and sentimental it's like a new genre: Hallmark noir.May 06, 2011
You can do worse than a movie that features Megan Fox stripped down to her tattoos and Bill Murray as a pinstriped gangster who says things like, "Kill him and bring her back here."May 06, 2011
"It's like a movie," someone says at some point. Yeah, like one. But not quite.December 26, 2011
full review at Movies for the MassesJune 02, 2011
One of the funniest most pretentious art house flicks of the year...May 12, 2011
Mickey Rourke recently made headlines for dubbing Passion Play "a terrible movie," a proclamation that's ultimately most notable for its understatement.June 27, 2011
A vanity project from successful Hollywood screenwriter Mitch Glazer, this film should really be much funnier than it is. Oh, it's not a comedy, by the way. Not at all.