Review of Rapa Nui

Rapa Nui (1994)
3/10
bad and boring
18 April 2007
Years before the arriving of the conquerors, the Easter Island lives before a civil war, ancient cults mixed with nihilistic behaviour crash into the island. All mixed with a pseudo ecological message and some stupid jokes. Noro is the son of the chief of Easter Island, he wants to marry Ramana, but, before, he has to win the Egg Race, a race in which he will risk his life in order to chose who will be the chief during the next year. Meanwhile, the slaves are permitted to take part in the race by first time, and the runner wants to marry also Ramana, this will cause the race to be absolutely decisive for the future of the island. It also happens that the current chief lives moaris (mystic meaning) and in the process of building them, they are eradicating the trees that are on the island, and soon there will be anyone and the island will become a desert. With all these plots mixed, it was possible that the movie was interesting, but it results to be very confusing and boring. None of the stories develops correctly and it provokes the movie to be terribly slow and predictable. In addition the actors are not very good, and most of the time you can only see the darkness of the night, as they did not know about fire. To sum up, a long boring film that you should avoid to watch to. The only interesting thing are the precious environment it is filmed.
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