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Runtime: 107 min
Rating: Rated R for brutal bloody violence
Official Site: http://www.thedeadlandsmovie.com/
Production: General Film Corporation
Genre: Action
Country: New Zealand
Language: Maori
Director: Toa Fraser
Stars: Vera Farmiga, Mark Strong, Harry Lloyd
The Dead Lands (2015) Movie Review: After his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery, the teenage son of a slain Maori chieftain looks to avenge his father's murder and bring peace and honor to the souls of his loved ones
IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3399916
Reviews By Critics For 'The Dead Lands' (2015)
Randall King | Winnipeg Free Press
Radheyan Simonpillai | NOW Toronto
The tale of warring tribes in pre-colonial New Zealand embraces Maori
language and mysticism. Ethnography is its purpose, but a fine cast
makes sure this modest movie has a pulse.
Matt Donato | We Got This Covered
This bloody quest for vengeance becomes burdened by too much of a good
thing, as brutal fight sequences become repetitive over The Dead Lands'
all-too-long running time.
Simon Abrams | RogerEbert.com
"The Dead Lands" doesn't add up to much, but it is always on the verge
of becoming more than just a bed time story for guys that wish
"Braveheart" had a biceps-kissing baby with "Ong Bak."
David Berry | National Post
There's plenty you haven't actually seen in The Dead Lands, a
blood-spurting martial arts epic that sets its ultraviolence amongst
warring Maori tribes... It's a shame that everything else about it
follows such a strict action movie template.
Martin Tsai | Los Angeles Times
A fable about New Zealand's indigenous Maori people before the arrival
of European settlers, "The Dead Lands" values entertainment over
archaeology.
The Dead Lands Movie Review By MDBReviews
New Zealand's scene gives itself effectively to dream movies or possibly it appeared that path after the Lord Of The Rings and Chronicles Of Narnia films turned the nation's mountains, holes, ridges, and waterfalls into eye-popping otherworlds. Be that as it may Toa Fraser's The Dead Lands is one of the few activity enterprises that is utilized New Zealand as New Zealand. Set in the inaccessible past, the motion picture accounts the fallout of the conflict between two Maori tribes: one that is created a generally enlightened society of peace, and the other demanding, "War nourishes our superbness." The varying methods of insight unavoidably crush the first tribe, with one and only young man who survives and pledges revenge. What takes after is a blend mission picture and combative technique display, with magical suggestions. It's a blend of recognizable sort components excessively natural, obviously given an appreciated feeling of degree and shading by the area.
James Rolleston plays the teenage hero, Hongi, who sees his tribe slaughtered and his village razed, and responds by heading into “the dead lands,” a kind of haunted forest occupied by a shrewd, feared cannibal known as “Warrior”. There, he trains, and plots against Wirepa, the leader of the growing band of violent nomads that killed Hongi’s people. Wirepa controls his army through intimidation and ideology, arguing against every ancestral tradition that doesn’t involve raw savagery. But Warrior has had his own experience with the devastation of total war, and he and other aggrieved souls soon sign on to Hongi’s mission of vengeance in order to settle some scores of their own.
Fraser and maker screenwriter Glenn Standring aren't generally attempting to advance with this film—or on the off chance that they are, they've floundered. The putting and anxious camerawork aside, The Dead Lands could undoubtedly be confused for a 1970s Hong Kong activity picture, about a feeble, gullible fellow who meets his expert, then tries to gain enough from him to bring down a supervillain. The dialog is silly and thick, with Wirepa murmuring over-the-top lines like, "I will fill your little girl's uterus with soil!" and Warrior ridiculing Hongi's aptitudes to get him to toughen up. Between the apparition of Hongi's grandma laughing at him in his fantasies and Warrior growling, "Don't tickle him!" amid battle, the saint gets completely mortified before he ascends go down. His story-circular segment doesn't contain numerous amazement
But in the second half of The Dead Lands, when the fight scenes pop up more frequently, the clichés are outweighed by the thrills. Stunt coordinator Steve McQuillan and martial-arts expert Jamus Webster have come up with something fairly original here, starting with a hand-to-hand combat style called Mau Rakau, then mixing in tribal dance moves and facial expressions that should be recognizable to anyone who’s ever watched the New Zealand rugby team’s pre-match haka. That’s another way Fraser and company distance The Dead Lands from its influences—if only just a bit. The film features the sudden zooms of a kung-fu epic, and its low, throbbing Don McGlashan score resembles 1980s straight-to-video movie soundtracks. But when painted-up soldiers emerge from enormous wooden lean-tos and start slashing each other’s throats with what looks like serrated ping-pong paddles, that kind of local color lends novelty to something that a lot of action fans will have otherwise seen before.
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