SummaryA terrific cast will hold you spellbound in this one of a kind seductive thriller from the screenwriter of The Recruit. The last thing washed-up jazz musician Nate Pool wanted to do was betray sinister gangster Happy Shannon. But it may be the last thing he does unless he can deliver Lily, a beautiful and mysterious carnival sideshow attraction. ... Read More
Directed By:Mitch Glazer
Written By:Mitch Glazer
Passion Play
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Generally Unfavorable
22
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5.2
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
22
18% Positive
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27% Mixed
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55% Negative
6 Reviews
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May 5, 2011
65
Fox and Rourke embody Lily and Nate's lost souls with vulnerability that's at once strikingly sincere and strange, particularly for two actors renowned for their impunity both on and off screen.
May 3, 2011
50
The reality is that Passion Play has a few good ideas that simply don't hold together. More of a miscalculation than an outright dud, it takes the form of a wildly surreal western fantasy, something that Chilean madman Alejandro Jodorowsky ("El Topo") could have executed with more rigorous invention.
User score
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5.2
38% Positive
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Nov 4, 2012
10
Rourke's final eye movements express not only the performace, but his life. Megan Fox, on her best movie ever, that I (and that is the magic of fox's performance) actually can believe for 2 hours that she had the right wings to save Mickey's regreting life.
Jun 28, 2024
8
It's a good movie made many years ago. Bill Murray was a great actor. The movie, starring famous actresses like Megan Fox, cannot be ignored. After watching the trailer, I felt that the trailer was made to attract people's attention.
May 11, 2011
42
This underworld fairy tale is so soggy and sentimental it's like a new genre: Hallmark noir.
May 2, 2011
30
Perversely eccentric and frequently inert, screenwriter Mitch Glazer's directorial debut, Passion Play, will benefit from some of the well-known names attached, but the near-painful hipness of the production will yield poisonous word of mouth.
May 5, 2011
16
Passion Play doesn't overreach so much as it overindulges in aimless pacing, inert acting, and a romance maudlin enough to make "Twilight" look restrained.
May 5, 2011
10
You might reasonably assume that any movie starring Mr. Rourke and Mr. Murray would have to have something to recommend it. But aside from a haunting musical interlude, in which Mr. Rourke, with pathetic ineptitude, mimes playing a trumpet, Passion Play is barely palatable.
May 5, 2011
10
Inexplicably filmed in a handful of styles - including, bizarrely, obviously processed shots - by cinematographer Christopher Doyle, Passion Play would be midnight-movie fodder if it weren't so drearily wrapped up in its wounded-male aesthetic and a clumsy approach to art-movie moodiness that was abandoned in the '80s.
Jun 5, 2012
5
An Ok Movie.. Bill Murry Is Amazing And To Be 100% Honest This Is A Weak Film.. Very Close To A 6.. But It's Not Going To Happen
Aug 31, 2011
3
Shame in everybody that was related to this movie, horrible screenplay, what a stupid and non-sense story, Megan Fox sometimes is better just stop trying, if you keep doing this kind of movies, you can say bye bye to your career, but i still like you. Bill Murray what happen? Mickey Rourke who cares.
