Passion Play

Passion Play is a freakishly bizarre film. It’s a fantasy tale that doesn’t feel like fantasy; when a washed up musician falls in love with a carny that has angel wings, he attempts to free her from the hustlers and gangsters that are out to control her. The cast is impressive, Mickey Rourke, Megan Fox, and Bill Murray, but Rourke doesn’t have a feel for the material and Murray is underused. Rourke and Fox have no chemistry, and the entire relationship seems forced. And that’s really the problem with the entire film, nothing is in sync; the tone, the music, the acting, the settings, everything is off. Yet there’s something strangely alluring about the bizarreness of it all. Still, as a whole Passion Play doesn’t work.