I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

I wanted to rent a film but decided not to do it because they were showing "Darkly Noon" on Cable TV. What a mistake! Since the beginning I started to dislike most of the characters: LY (Fraser) is mentally retarded and weird; CLAY (Mortensen) is dumb and has nothing heavy to offer to the plot; QUINCY (the black guy who purchases the coffins is like a butterfly trying to be funny and speaking nonsense); ROXY (Grace Zabriskie) is not only crazy, but depressing. You also get to see the dead parents of Ly, they made me sick, their role is so disgusting and meaningless that when I reached this point I started to wonder if I was being punished. The only light of this whole film is Ashley Judd as CALLIE: She is sweet and at the same time sexy and she knows she can be tempting. The other guy, Lauren Dean as JUDE was OK, a normal person! which is rare and valuable in this film. The story is stupid, the conversations are pointless, the scenery is boring ... please beware! I don't like to be so negative to a film, but this one was so tedious... a real waste of time.

Brendan Fraser plays the role of a man who has lived under the severe guidance of hyper-religious parents. We slowly get to see him degenerate from a stiff, proper, 'perfect' Christian to a lustful, sexual being, and then into a person who has lost touch with reality completely.The object of his passion is Callie. She tempts him, almost tauntingly, but at the same time obliviously. Her boyfriend, Clay, is played by Viggo Mortensen, in what I suspect is his only NON speaking role.Viggo plays the role of a mute convincingly, showing us another dimension of talent. He uses body language, exaggerated gestures common to the mute, facial expressions, and a couple vocalisations in form of whistles and clicks, or rapping on an object. The vocalisations serve both as attention getters and exclamations to make a point.At the end, after a fight with Darkly (Lee), Viggo's facial expression is the most menacing I have ever seen--and that includes his role in the recent 'History of Violence' Lee meets up with Roxy, part way through. We find out that she is Clay's mum, and holds a grudge against Callie, claiming she is a witch who ruined her family when she was brought into the household much the same way Lee was--an injured stranger.Roxy is so convincing that I honestly expected to find out that Callie truly was a witch (in fact, I'm still not convinced that she ISN'T). Roxy's opinions don't help Lee's sanity any, and in the end, after a discussion with his dead parents, he totally loses it, and sets off to destroy the witch.I was honestly confused by the ending, and am going to have to re-watch it to see if I get it again.In regards to technical aspects-the music was perfectly selected and placed. There were a few instances where the camera used jerky, quick shots, changing angles or scenes (cutting back and forth from Lee to Callie or Clay, e.g.). It was perfectly done-other producers have tried those shots, but I usually end up feeling physically ill from the quick changes. These were just breathtaking.

The more mentally challenging a movie is, the more noteworthy it becomes. Philip Ridley has written great gangster epic The Krays, directed by Peter Medak, and Ridley's debut as a director was with Reflecting Skin. The Passion of Darkly Noon deals with serious subject matter and has a potential to be very challenging and stunning piece of art, and fortunately it succeeds almost, but not entirely.*THIS PARAGRAPH DOESN'T INCLUDE SPOILERS, BUT DON'T READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE FILM* Brendan Fraser plays Darkly Noon, a young boy who is found on the road in the middle of a huge forest where beautiful Callie (Ashley Judd, the cutest thing on Earth) and his husband Clay (Viggo Mortensen) lives. Callie's truck driver friend finds Darkly on the road unconscious and takes him to Callie to safe. Callie cures Darkly and lets him stay with her house for a while; Clay is not home, but he should come back in couple of days. During these days, hugely traumatic and suffered Darkly becomes obsessed with Callie's sensuality and beauty (both mental and physical) and falls in love with the beautiful girl. It is obvious that when Clay comes back, Darkly's love gets very bad obstacles and the total journey to terror and despair begins.. *NO MORE SPOILERS*This sounds very interesting and I had very high expectations for this film, and then I finally got it on VHS and watched it. The film is a gripping study about misunderstanding of religion and its results to young kids when they are subjected to this kind of fanaticism in the childhood. It is horrible that this kind of narrow mindedness happen in the world today and certain individuals' thoughts about God and religion are so rotten and evil, even though they think they are on the mission of the Word and do only His will. When films like Antonia Bird's Priest become banned or raise huge resistance among "religious" groups, it is obvious these films become even more important and show that this kind of madness still exists. In country where I live, there are also people that "live by the Bible" and only do horrible harm to their children and leave traumas that perhaps never heal.Darkly thinks that all he's been told is the Truth and anything else is wrong. Callie tries to discuss with him about these things, but he doesn't listen and doesn't want to even think about it. I'm not moralizing, but when this kind of traumatic people appear, it is usually more or less their parents' fault that they've more or less ruined their children's life, because my opinion is that childhood is perhaps the most important phase in man's life since all the things are new for child and what he's/she's taught, will without a doubt affect him for the rest of his life. There is one little scene at the end of this film, when Darkly seems to stop and think a little bit, but it is too late in that point for him and Callie. I'm mostly irritated by the lack of depth of the characters in this film. This could have been even more powerful film if these two main protagonist Callie and Darkly were little more developed and deep, and if between them was created a strong emotional relationship. There are couple of very bad mistakes in the film that tone their relationship down, but still there is strong scenes between these two, too. The scene where Callie finally realizes what Darkly has done to himself and starts to cry is among these strong moments of the film, and brought to my mind the finale in Roman Polanski's Chinatown, which has very powerful last scene. If Ridley had written his characters with even more empathy and emotion, The Passion of Darkly Noon would've probably been worth a masterpiece status.Visually this film is incredible, as the photography is gorgeous and the forest is captured very beautifully, and the film looks pretty much like Heavenly Creatures and also David Lynch films. The beauty of the forest is ruined only by evil men, "monsters", and this brings again symbolism about the world we live in, and what it could be if humans were little different deep inside. There are beautiful colors and weird camera angels and surreal elements, like the big shoe and "Ma and Pa" characters. I think Lynch would probably like this film. The mythic atmosphere lasts through the film and should keep the viewer very interested and almost nailed to the seat. Also worth mentioning is the beauty of Ashley Judd, who really is an angel in here and is another element found in Lynch movies. I can only wonder what this film would be like, if Judd's and Fraser's characters were emotionally perfectly developed, but still I'm definitely not disappointed.The Passion of Darkly Noon is great, beautiful and symbolic film and lacks only the things described above about the characters. I give this 8/10 rating and still highly recommended it if you love demanding and all the way non-mainstream and intelligent cinema.

Oh dear. This is such a dreadful movie. The guy from "The Mummy" and Ashley Judd - together at last. I've said it before, and I'll say it again - there has never been a good movie with the aforementioned Ms. Judd in it. Her career consists entirely of inept, banal, stupid movies. "Darkly Noon" is perhaps the zenith of her miserable little filmography, being pretentious and witless, "arty" and crass, cringe-inducing and hysterically funny (for all the wrong reasons). Take, as an example of this movie's momentous ineptitude, the final scene (one of my favourite in all movies), when the shoe floats downstream. Oh dear God, this is film-making as torture, as punishment, as though we, the hapless audience, have committed some crime and must be forced to watch deep and meaningful nonsense for the rest of our lives. Please, if you really think this is a good film, read a few books (preferably ones without pictures) and see a few genuinely intelligent movies. Soon. Hurry up! Time is running out!