Gone Direct-to-DVD: December 2008
By Robert Sims, Special to Hollywood.com
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
5. The Lazarus Project
Cast: Paul Walker, Piper Perabo, Linda Cardellini, Bob Gunton
The Verdict: At first you wonder whether this imaginative exercise in redemption was intended to be a Bible-thumping version of The Prisoner. After receiving his shot of sodium thiopental, Walker’s Death Row prisoner wakes up in a strange psychiatric hospital run by Gunton’s kindly priest. Walker may not be alive, but if he stays to make up for his past sins, he could return to wife Perabo. Leave, and he’s eternally damned. “Only a fool spits in the face of God,” an angel-like being advises Walker. By the time all is revealed, though, The Lazarus Project seems as much like the work of a spiritual person trying to spread the word of the God as it is (intentionally or otherwise) a screed against organized religion.
DVD Features: Deleted Scenes.
Stars: 3 out of 5 stars
KEEP READING: See No. 4 ...
