Burning Palms

2010

Action / Comedy / Thriller

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 35% · 8 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 35% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.4/10 10 3250 3.3K

career taboo subversive tale

Plot summary

A subversive tale that interlaces five stories set in Los Angeles, where no taboo is left unexplored as each character careens toward a dark and often comic fate

Director

Christopher Landon Photo
Christopher Landon

Top cast

Rosamund Pike Photo
Rosamund Pike as Dedra
Zoe Saldana Photo
Zoe Saldana as Sarah Cotton
Adriana Barraza Photo
Adriana Barraza as Louisa Alvarez
Lake Bell Photo
Lake Bell as Mary Jane
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1 GB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 51 min
Seeds 1
2.06 GB
1920*1072
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 51 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by skullfire-96621 6 / 10

Burning Palms

Reviewed by thisisgrey 4 / 10

Have kids been watching this movie?

SPOILER ALERT -----------The movie is a bad movie, that is clear. But I guess you've read a lot of comments about how cynical, cold and insane this movie is and you may be wondering about that. The short answer? critics who labeled this movie as "deeply disturbing" are immature, weak and simple minded and truly disturb me with their insensibility to human frailty.These are all the things depicted in the movie that some reviewers think are the most "aberrant corners of humanity":Incest - Anal sex - Gay couples adopting out of fashion - White people adopting minority kids to buy redemption - Gay sex - Superficiality - Absent parents - Racism - Rape - MasochismThe movie is not good but it is not by any means that politically incorrect. I guess critics today are kids who can't appreciate cinema without judging the characters like they were real people—even if that were the case, labeling these people as aberrant without any sign of compassion is extremely arrogant—or being willfully ignorant to how ugly or stupid we humans can be.I assume that these critics have never seen (and will never see) some of these really good movies that go around the same topics and are truly disturbing and challenging: Salo, anything by Pedro Almodovar, Irreversible, American Psycho, Bad lieutenant, Buffalo 66, Cruising, The Piano Teacher, Putney Swope, Repulsion, Dogville.My recommendation would be this: Watch the movie to realize how infantile contemporary movie goers are, watch some of the movies recommended above and enjoy cinema like the smart adult you are.
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