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The Wicker Man

The Wicker Man

2006
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 42m
While recovering from a tragic accident on the road, the patrolman Edward Malus receives a letter from his former fiancée Willow, who left him years ago without any explanation, telling that her daughter Rowan is missing. Edward travels to the private island of Summerisle, where Willow lives in an odd community that plant fruits, and she reveals that Rowan is actually their daughter... (imdb)

The Wicker Man

2006
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 42m
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Rated 14 Dec 2006
3
1st
This movie gets a score of 3. 1 point for each time Nicolas Cage punches a girl in the face. The rest of the movie is shit.
Rated 06 Nov 2010
60
52nd
There's two sides to this. On one hand this is a terrible story of one emasculated man being destroyed by a society of psycho-bitches. On the other, killing him won't bring back their goddamned honey
Rated 12 Sep 2010
15
8th
Holy hell, I've been stabbed by toothless hobos with more social grace and charisma than Cage's character in this flaccid bore. I don't think there's a way for this movie to bee any worse. Hahaha! Get it? With.. because of.. with the bees... and then... bear suit... Eh, forget it.
Rated 09 Oct 2012
1
4th
Nicolas Cage gets into a brawl with a bunch of costumed women and children, loses. LaBute watches from above, smirks, calls all women "cunts".
Rated 18 Sep 2009
21
4th
Oh my god is this movie funny. There's never been so many poorly timed scenes, horribly delivered lines and surrealy bad acting to all come together in such a hilarious mess of a movie. Cage stars as the possibly schizophrenic lead cop and everyone else plays a one-dimensional cardboard cutout that have two lines (if that). Cage is fantastic in this film and never lets up on the insurmountable humour in his quest to find the little girl. A must-watch.
Rated 28 May 2009
25
3rd
Mostly boring and cliche-riddled, but by the time it got to Nicholas Cage punching women, donning a bear suit, and finally giving into THE BEEEEEES I realized that, yes, I was having a good time. I guess what I'm trying to say is that you should skip the movie and just watch the Youtube video.
Rated 18 Oct 2010
30
0th
An unspeakably horrible remake of a cult classic. All the sinister feminist updating is pretentious and rather nasty. Nicholas Cage just goes through the motions, cashes his paycheck, pays a few gambling debts, and moves on.
Rated 29 Jun 2009
18
3rd
Astonishingly bad. I have no idea what anyone was trying to achieve in creating this trainwreck.
Rated 14 Jun 2009
10
0th
Diarrhorrible.
Rated 24 Oct 2014
1
2nd
Needed more Cage acting crazy and punching women in the face. And bees. And Cage punching bees in the face.
Rated 27 Nov 2011
40
19th
Underrated is the wrong word; it's certainly not a good film. I think both groups, placing themselves on the ends of a hate-love scale, are off-mark. It's both unfairly despised - in part, I suspect, because of its flat version of the original's rather effective ending - and incomprehensively adored as a camp masterpiece; sure, punching in a bear costume helps. I, for one, felt indifferent towards the film, finding it neither skillful nor inept. The right word, it would seem, is unremarkable.
Rated 16 Nov 2011
9
1st
CHRISTOPHER LEE: This attitude that "people wouldn't understand" is far too prevalent in cinema today. People should be able to use what's left of their minds when they watch something. NICHOLAS CAGE: AAAAAAAH! MY LEGS! MY LEGS! KILLING ME WON'T BRING BACK YOUR GODDAMN HONEEEEEEEEEEEY!
Rated 04 Nov 2011
80
18th
Take The Shining, Shutter Island, and The Village, but starring Nicolas Cage. This movie isn't objectively good, but on the other hand it has Nicolas Cage in a bear suit punching a woman in the face.
Rated 20 Oct 2011
17
3rd
Hilariously wretched bastardization of the fascinating original, a botch in nearly every way. The pagan community here is utterly lacking in character or logic, aiming for generic horror-film creepiness--which it totally fails to achieve. Nicolas Cage manages to come off as both a douche and a sap, before descending into utter ham. Ellen Burstyn, as "Sister Summersisle", has barely anything to do, failing to intimidate or compel. It's also shockingly misogynistic. "NOT THE BEES!"--NOT THIS FILM!
Rated 30 Jan 2010
10
11th
STEP AWAY FROM THE BIKE. Absolutely awful stuff. Would I watch it again? Yes, because it's hilarious.
Rated 02 Jul 2009
35
4th
A stupid movie that is goofy as all hell. The Cage is hilarious though. I can watch the bees part and the part with the bear suit endlessly.
Rated 15 Nov 2008
10
11th
Utterly unnecessary remake of classic. LaBute directs with all the gusto of a potsmoking teenager and Cage is his usual down syndrome self. WM'06 dispenses with all interesting elements of the original, taking the route of standard made-for-tv investagation snoozefest. And the overrated Burstyn is a very poor substitute for the delectably decadent Lee.
Rated 06 Sep 2008
43
4th
Nicholas Cage Beats Up a Bunch of Women: The Movie.
Rated 18 Mar 2008
68
54th
I don't get all the bad ratings. It dares to stand out and is unique. I admit it isn't the most exciting movie but overall a pretty decent movie. I wasn't bored.
Rated 11 Jan 2008
11
2nd
There are times when it eems so very close to tipping over into nonstop lunacy. Instead, everything just seems off. The actors try to make sense of the lines they're delivering as they're delivering them. Trying to find meaning and grounded emotion in this misbegotten material is the collected thespians' second mistake (the first is, of course, signing on to the project in the first place). You can't make sense of stuff like this. The best you can hope to do is get a few laughs out of it.
Rated 27 Aug 2007
45
27th
Nicolas Cage ina bear suit beating up women. How awesome is that? Awesome enough to make you forget that it is boring and ludicrous? No, but it is amusing nevertheless.
Rated 13 Aug 2007
14
4th
You can't even compare this garbage to the original.
Rated 27 Sep 2019
8
86th
The theatrical version? 1/8. The director's cut? 8/8. I split the difference.
Rated 03 May 2019
20
10th
One of a slew of terrible aughties remakes to 1970s horror gems. And Nicolas Cage, I'm a fan but he's wrongly typecast, and seems to never miss a chance to make an awful choice and this is one of the worst. A few years after this, Robin Hardy the director of the original "Wicker Man" made "The Wicker Tree", which is much nicer than this remake and can scratch your itch if you're nostalgic.
Rated 08 Jun 2016
2
15th
Mostly just pretty boring. There are a few hilarious Cage scenes, but it's nowhere near as entertaining as you'd expect from its reputation. Frankly, I'm not a fan of the original either so whatever.
Rated 16 Apr 2015
1
8th
What's in the bag...A...shark, or somethin'?
Rated 28 Jan 2014
3
1st
A horrible movie that has a hilarious ending. Not really worth watching though, even though Cage delivers a Cage/10 performance.
Rated 20 Dec 2013
30
12th
List of movies I would love to see remade with Nicolas Cage in starring role: a.) Citizen Kane. b.) Titanic. c.) Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back. d.) Schindler's List e.) Great Dictator f.) Rocky g.) Gone With The Wind h.) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest i.) Vertigo j.) Superman k.) Aguirre, Wrath of God l.) A Clockwork Orange m.) Breathless n.) The Silence Of The Lambs o.) Groundhog Day p.) Deep Throat r.) Apocalypse Now [in no particular order; list incomplete]
Rated 26 Jan 2013
13
6th
Just watch the compilations on YouTube again, then the actual film with Christopher Lee.
Rated 26 Oct 2012
22
5th
A film that speaks to the importance of execution over ideas, for most of what was in the original Wicker Man is in here, but rather than a mysterious and hypnotizing tone brought about by the original's execution, this one replaces it with a tone reminiscent of the most banal of modern horror films. It's not until Cage starts screaming and flailing about in the last half hour does it become hilarious, but by then it's too late.
Rated 09 Oct 2012
1
4th
The original sucks so I'm not surprised a remake would suck even more. When Cage starts fanatically punching women and children it gets good but that's only for the last 20 minutes or so.
Rated 13 May 2012
60
30th
Kind of terrible, but at the same time curiously engaging and genuinely unsettling on occasion. Beautifully shot.
Rated 10 Dec 2011
23
9th
Not quite as bad as its reputation suggests. By which I mean, there are still a few good parts left in there from the original, and a couple average scenes, too. However, the 10 minute sequence from HAUWDITGITBURNED? to Nic Cage in a bear costume punching a woman is one of the most ill-conceived, poorly-acted pieces of cinema I've seen in a while.
Rated 12 Mar 2011
30
22nd
That's, uh, quite the ending. It's certainly not as bad as people make it out to be, either.
Rated 05 Mar 2011
15
0th
Dreadful "horror" film, which spends the first hour concerning itself with a mystery whose solution is obvious from the get go, and provides the usually wonderful 2nd billed Burstyn with a glorified cameo which is by turns dreary and humiliating (the BRAVEHEART war paint does nothing). The climax at least becomes preposterous and bad in an enjoyable way, as Cage slays women using only his fists before facing execution by fire, but by that stage any potential for fun has long since drained away.
Rated 28 Feb 2011
3
0th
I'll admit I haven't seen the original but I highly doubt it's as bad as this piece of garbage. It's just idiotic scene followed by idiotic scene as Cage, surprisingly, has more character depth than anyone else in the movie. This, however, isn't surprisingly considering the rest of the cast only has one mood: angry that an outside man showed up. Well, except for Willow who's mood is essentially: I'm an absolutely bumbling idiot. Plus side: Nic Cage in a bear suit one-shotting a woman.
Rated 28 Jul 2010
1
1st
It's like that highlight video on YouTube, but about a hundred times more boring.
Rated 16 Mar 2010
5
1st
manages to screw it up completely! To sum it up, this is the worst Nic Cage movie in later years, which translates to: RUN AWAY! (NOT THE BEES!!!)
Rated 26 Oct 2009
50
15th
I don't know why everyone hates this movie so much, as it seemed mostly forgettable. It was too silly to be scary and too dull to be funny. I really thou - OH NO NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES!
Rated 18 Sep 2009
10
8th
Terrible remake of a classic.
Rated 20 Jul 2009
50
13th
Neil LaBute must have caught his wife sleeping with another man.
Rated 03 May 2009
2
3rd
*runs around punching women and children*
Rated 26 Apr 2009
80
84th
Best watched while drunk to see Nick Cage sucker kick a bear.
Rated 21 Apr 2009
38
4th
In a perfect world, 20 years from now people dressed in bear suits will go to midnight showings of this film to shout "HOW'D IT GET BURNED?" Highly recommended for all the wrong reasons.
Rated 19 Apr 2009
5
14th
Not as bad as everyone said it was. Still it didn't get a passing grade, but I expected this to be one of the worst films I've ever seen, and was somewhat disappointed it wasn't. It's greatest flaw is being a remake, in that it's virtually a scene for scene copy of the original, and not utilizing any new ideas to change the plot significantly.
Rated 23 Dec 2008
1
0th
This is the best movie
Rated 23 Dec 2008
79
51st
Nicolas Cage, in a bear suit, runs and punches a woman in the face!! Best. Movie. Ever.
Rated 30 Nov 2008
0
4th
This is just awful compared to the original... I beg you, watch the original from 1973 it is like one million times better.
Rated 26 Feb 2008
5
0th
I couldn't stay awake through the whole thing. Watch Youtube's, "the best two minutes of the Wicker Man" It's just a mash up of rediculous parts of this movie, and a better use of time.
Rated 22 Feb 2008
4
0th
Right, so it turns out when I thought I had seen the film, I had only seen part of it during a jet-lagged haze in America. I've re-watched it and I'm not changing my score. This is Last Airbender inept as a film. It's bad Cage ridiculous, an insult to the original. It could have worked, as the British one is somewhat dated. However, when your big scary scenes are hilarious, then you fail. I realize I'm not saying why it's shit, I'll narrow it down to everything. Just everything. Quite funny tho
Rated 20 Feb 2008
6
4th
Poor rerun.
Rated 13 Dec 2007
70
40th
I'm proud to say I have given 'The Wicker Man' one of it's highest ratings on this website. It's absolutely awful. But so what? It's Nicolas Cage in a bear suit punching women! HOW'D IT GET BURNED?!
Rated 27 Nov 2007
40
19th
Not good at all--especially in comparison with the original--but the ending is absolutely uproarious.
Rated 01 Mar 2007
25
6th
Very poor remake of a legendary film,You know its all gone wrong when you realise they have set this version of the film in America lol.
Rated 23 Sep 2024
12
12th
I almost thought of giving this movie a good rating because I admittedly laughed my ass off. But at the end of the day this was not really a comedy, but a poorly written mess of a movie. I give it a 12 because it can still be enjoyable, I just don't think the laughs justify it's runtime and abysmal plot. I would recommend simply watching "The best of The Wicker Man" on youtube, and enjoying the most stupid bits of this movie. (Also, Not the Bees, is not a line that is in the actual film.)
Rated 15 Apr 2024
85
48th
so bad it's good
Rated 17 Mar 2024
57
17th
I was expecting a delightful so bad it's good experience from this given its reputation, but until the last 20 minutes or so, I didn't think it was nearly as bad as its reputation, which was kind of a negative. A negative because it also certainly wasn't GOOD, just kind of a generic horror thriller that's a pale imitation of the original, not managing to capture the creepy setting or mood nearly as competently despite hitting most of the same plot points.
Rated 09 Mar 2024
40
8th
so bad it's good....... almost
Rated 31 Dec 2021
34
11th
What I don't get is why a movie with the budget this had looks so damn bad. The costumes are worse than the acting and the acting is complete shit. Cage is terrible in this movie and yet he's still better than most anyone else and he's certainly the most entertaining, not that it means much given how bad this was.
Rated 25 Nov 2021
90
93rd
Don't get me wrong, it's horrible. He punches a high priestess while wearing a bear suit. It's just Cage at his Cagest.
Rated 13 Oct 2021
0
2nd
Neil LaBute and Nick Cage work together to ruin the remake of a great movie.
Rated 16 Aug 2021
71
72nd
The better Midsommar
Rated 11 Aug 2021
14
8th
Host ratings: 22 / 33 / 59. (Cage Match) Podcast review link: https://rydeorwrong.podcaster.de/rydeorwrong/folge-027-donnie-darko-2001-the-wicker-man-aquaman/
Rated 30 Apr 2021
50
3rd
still worth it for the pure unfiltered Cage of it all
Rated 03 Apr 2021
11
3rd
güldürmedi
Rated 28 Aug 2020
25
2nd
This score reflects my appreciation for this film as a work of art. It does NOT reflect how much I enjoyed watching Nicolas ("HOW'D IT GET BURNED?!") Cage to struggle through this movie. My advice: check the best-of compilation of his scenes on youtube and skip the movie.
Rated 10 May 2020
40
32nd
the director could not possibly throw nic cage into this oven and not think the end result would make a delicious party snack
Rated 19 Jan 2020
8
3rd
I can't truly recommend The Wicker Man as a good-bad movie because almost all of the runtime is just plain ol' boring and not funny boring or bad funny or bad boring. However, there is still a part of me that wants to show people Nic Cage in a bear costume punching women because that is some high quality crap.
Rated 27 Sep 2019
6
0th
"STEP AWAY FROM THE BIKE!" Horror movies could not exist if anyone involved had any common sense whatsoever. This is just as bad as everyone says, yet it's somehow sort of watchable...and then 25 minutes from the end, it turns into a comedy! Ellen Burstyn in a long, blonde wig as a druid priestess is priceless, and Frances Conroy is totally in her element.
Rated 24 Oct 2018
33
3rd
There's good Cage, there's so-bad-it's-good-Cage, and then there's I'm-just-here-for-my-paycheck-Cage. Between the terrible acting, the amateurish filmmaking and the nonsensical plot resolution, you might be better off with the actual Bee Movie.
Rated 14 Jan 2018
19
1st
I saw this on a list of so bad it's good movies, and I thought it had a few crazy moments but it was mostly just bad.
Rated 01 Apr 2017
59
5th
Never see yourself, or show to anyone. Scarring.
Rated 27 Dec 2016
50
12th
Much better than expected. Certainly very far from great, but apart from the few hilarious scenes everyone knows, its really not bad enough to deserve that much attention. Its just mediocre. Bummer: the famous "not-the-bees-scene" is missing from the theatrical cut!
Rated 25 Oct 2016
18
19th
[me: hmm, so Nic Cage & no Lee, let's see... hm it's like the orig. but ultra-bland & sans Bacchanal pagan [s]excess, wow did actual humans edit this? heh guess it's a critique of uh, nah it's going for "fun b-movie"? well that's a stretch. wtf? hmm HOLY LORD what. This is hilarious!-- ok that lasted all of two min. uh, it's a critique of the "feminization" of society?? ok, I acquired this for free and I -still- want my $$ back. Hate to be the solitary naysayer here, guys, but this blows...].
Rated 02 Oct 2016
45
6th
I wouldn't say this film is bee-autifully done, but I must say it descends into madness pretty quickly at the end. This movie is probably my favorite from the great Nicolas Cage. He is a giant Christmas ham in this film. The lines are all wonderfully and terribly written and despite the very slow beginning, if you can hold out, you are in for a sweet treat of stupidity at the end...
Rated 18 Jul 2016
50
5th
At least a super funny terrible movie, a la Nic Cage.
Rated 05 Jul 2016
0
3rd
Absolute shit....shocker
Rated 14 Jun 2016
2
2nd
F: Words can't describe how hilarious this film is. It isn't scary, it isn't threatening, it isn't shocking. It is hilarious. Cage gives the funniest terrible role of his life and delivers us mind-numbingly scary bad acting.
Rated 06 Jun 2016
60
17th
Pretty much enjoyable mostly for the ridiculous ending, most notably the scene with the bear suit.
Rated 20 Jan 2016
0
1st
what even, nicolas?
Rated 15 Nov 2015
20
2nd
Not the bees!
Rated 14 Nov 2015
75
10th
This movie would have been much worse if NIcholas cage wasn't playing the lead.
Rated 11 Oct 2015
68
38th
Not a "good" movie by any stretch, but definitely an entertaining one.
Rated 06 Aug 2015
73
58th
There are some really funny scenes but it's better to watch them on youtube because the movie really drags for the most part.
Rated 30 May 2015
54
21st
Objectively, terrible. But also hilarious.
Rated 06 May 2015
3
2nd
Bleach was invented for the poor souls that accidentally wander in front of a tv with this on.
Rated 26 Apr 2015
23
3rd
The biggest problem with this movie is Neil LaBute; even Cage's most ridiculous antics can barely make this watchable. This movie has a great cast, but the tension never builds because LaBute has no sense of atmosphere and seems to be incapable of anything more creative as a director than pointing the camera at his actors. And oh god the bad editing. And the costumes are lazy and uninspired. The last scene with James Franco would be the only good part if the movie had earned that ending.
Rated 12 Feb 2015
10
0th
This took so much alcohol for me to make it through. I had high hopes for an entertainment-value kind of bad movie, but it's not even that until the last ten minutes - where ALL the clips you've seen online are from.
Rated 28 Jan 2015
10
1st
Enjoyably bad.
Rated 15 Jun 2014
20
7th
A horribly-written, poorly-acted, plot hole-ridden, catastrophe. A movie led by Nicolas Cage really needs a good premise but this does not deliver. It's not even so bad that it is good. I mean some of the really terrible scenes can be funny and you may enjoy this if you are a part of r/onetruegod, but otherwise, stay away from this.
Rated 11 May 2014
27
0th
26.500
Rated 09 May 2014
26
8th
The original Wicker Man was s true classic, but this remake feel more like a comedy starring Nicolas Cage. My friends and I have a yearly viewing around Halloween due to the laughs we get out of Cage punching women in a bear costume and the bad writing.
Rated 21 Apr 2014
0
0th
Words cannot describe the thousand layers of terrible that occur in this monstrosity. There are of course the famous bee scenes and lady punching you have seen on the internet. Between them however, is an hour and a half worth of wooden, awkward dialogue that seems almost half-finished at times. Most scenes are strange overreactions by all parties, over and over and over. Well worth watching as a lesson on how not to make a movie.
Rated 14 Apr 2014
23
6th
Cage holds it together for the most part of this film with only sporadic outbursts livening up the droll American retelling of Wicker Man...That is until the last 20 minutes where he recalls his Vampires Kiss form and knocks bitches out in a bear suit before being incinerated alive. Leaving the character of the town largely to the wayside when WM strays from a scene for scene retelling is a killer. The catholic vs paganism theme was so strong, here it's boiled down to Cage vs Bees.
Rated 08 Apr 2014
30
0th
Cage is so deliciously over-the-top. Very funny indeed.
Rated 09 Feb 2014
100
99th
This is beautifully bad. I love it. People also don't realise how beautifully this film is shot with love crane shots and a creepy ambiance created through the browned colours making you feel like you are in the woods. Also contains the greatest line of all time in cinematic history "step away from the bike". Wonderful.
Rated 14 Jan 2014
2
12th
Nic Cage is a genius, but even in his most noted "madman" role, he's not given complete reigns of this (catches tongue) burning vehicle.
Rated 17 Dec 2013
50
28th
Terrible movie, terrible acting, loved it.
Rated 03 Dec 2013
33
3rd
holy shit
Rated 18 Oct 2013
69
54th
Whilst it was amusing enough to see me through to the end, it's pretty much just a long buildup to the bear suit punch and "NOT THE BEES!"

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