John Cusack, Marisa Tomei
This must be the pandering liberal Hollywood circle-jerk studio execs wanted when they poured millions into David Kelly’s Southland Tales. Action unfolds in near-future Turaqistan (brilliant, right?), where a corporation-run war is destroying all things local then rebuilding for billions, American-style. There are also terrorists, CIA agents, and Hillary Duff as a Middle-Eastern pop star (who ends up being American, so it’s okay). Such simplistic satire becomes scenery wherein Cusack’s emotionally-injured corporate head-hunter reaffirms his manhood and gets the girl (two girls, in fact).
This review appears on The L Magazine's website, and can be read here.
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