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By David Berry (137) for National Post (1,405) on 15 Apr 2015

There's plenty you haven't actually seen in The Dead Lands, a blood-spurting martial arts epic that sets its ultraviolence amongst warring…

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By Martin Tsai (390) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 15 Apr 2015

The only aspects of the tale that seem uniquely Maori are the action sequences featuring the martial art of mau rakau…

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By Andy Crump (279) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 15 Apr 2015

It's a solid entertainment, in other words, and with some fine-tuning it might even have been great…

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By Nicolas Rapold (488) for New York Times (5,786) on 15 Apr 2015

As it dives into this infrequently depicted culture, Mr. Fraser’s film is caught shuttling uneasily between speeches and action…

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By Zach Hollwedel (108) for Under the Radar (636) on 15 Apr 2015

The Dead Lands too frequently fizzles when it should sizzle…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 15 Apr 2015

The problem with this kind of universal narrative is that, like the cult of the golden ratio, it emphasizes formulas at the expense of those…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 14 Apr 2015

National Geographic meets the WWE in this brutal, brawling revenge tale set in pre-Colonial New Zealand, mixing insight into indigenous Maori…

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By Fred Topel (1,193) for Nuke the Fridge (40) on 14 Apr 2015

Because of some of the familiarity of narrative, I wasn't totally invested in the story of The Deadlands but when Hongi sprang into action…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 14 Apr 2015

An unblinkingly fierce and bloody tale of slaughter and revenge…

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By Aaron Hillis (362) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Apr 2015

The film is undeniably elevated by its exotic milieu. It's a shame, then, that it's stuck with such a familiar coming-of-age call to adventure…

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By Carson Lund (88) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Apr 2015

A phony collection of storytelling clichés held under the banner of archetype and lent a modicum of weight by the splendor of the landscape…

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By Deborah Young (235) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 30 Mar 2015

It’s a remarkable film experience in several ways…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 19 Oct 2014

A tediously clichéd, overblown, badly acted action flick full of bloody movie violence dressed up in Maori drag…

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By Ian Gilchrist (30) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 07 Sep 2014

Lovely to look at but it feels long at just under 2 hours, and ends with a gory whimper rather than the anticipated spectacularly bloody bang…

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