- Actors: Jason Scott Lee, Esai Morales, Sandrine Holt, Eru Potaka-Dewes, Emilio Tuki Hito
- Directors: Kevin Reynolds
- Writers: Kevin Reynolds, Tim Rose Price
- Producers: Barrie M. Osborne, Guy East, Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner
- Format: PAL
- Language English
- Classification: 12
- Studio: Entertainment in Video
- VHS Release Date: 1 Oct 1999
- Run Time: 102 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CPXD
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 14,392 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This film is a masterpiece. It has everything right - credible and passionate plot, likeable heroes, a horrible villain, a sweet and cute damsel in distress, great images, really unique place of action, great tragedies and some humour, and also sport rivalry, civil war, religion dilemma and some cannibalism. And a really great ending! So how comes that it didn't have more success? It is beyond my ability to uderstand. At least me I loved it and I will never forget it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Charting the downfall of the idyllic Easter Island into civil war and cannibalism through the rivalry of a pair of former childhood friends, the privileged Long Ear Jason Scott Lee and working class Short Ear Easai Morales, for the hand of Sandrine Holt, Rapa Nui may be bonkers but it's great fun. Naturally the girl doesn't have much choice in the matter, ending up bricked in a cave as prize for the winner in the annual Bird Man competition. No flying is involved, but plenty of running, mountain climbing, swimming in shark-infested waters and dirty tricks are, but the film has weightier matters on its mind too. It's allegory writ large, with delightfully insane chief Eru Potaka-Dewes insisting on ever bigger Moai statues being built, oblivious to the impending disaster deforestation and overpopulation are bringing ever closer, let alone the increasing murmurs of rebellion from the put upon working stiffs. It all ends badly in every sense of the word, but Potaka-Dewes' final scene when the White Canoe finally arrives for his chosen people is a gem of what the heck? comedy and the lines "What did you think salvation would look like...? Had to be the hats" may well sear themselves on your memory for life..
Seemingly made as a peace offering after producer Kevin Costner locked director Kevin Reynolds out of the cutting room of Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves, it plays like a mixture of Michael Powell's Edge of the World, Murnau's Tabu and a cable channel show about one of those extreme sports you can't believe is a real sport with added National Geographic nudity (but only from the ladies) and some great Scope visuals. It's not exactly historically or even ethnically accurate, with most of the Easter Islanders played by Maoris (you can spot Cliff Curtis as a ticked-off Short Ear), but it carries you along with its own sweeping insanity.
The French PAL DVD boasts a good 2.35:1 widescreen transfer with original English soundtrack and removeable subtitles, but do be aware that most of the other versions on the market are poor fullframe transfers (Amazon have unhelpfully lumped all the reviews for different editions together).
Seemingly made as a peace offering after producer Kevin Costner locked director Kevin Reynolds out of the cutting room of Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves, it plays like a mixture of Michael Powell's Edge of the World, Murnau's Tabu and a cable channel show about one of those extreme sports you can't believe is a real sport with added National Geographic nudity (but only from the ladies) and some great Scope visuals. It's not exactly historically or even ethnically accurate, with most of the Easter Islanders played by Maoris (you can spot Cliff Curtis as a ticked-off Short Ear), but it carries you along with its own sweeping insanity.
The French PAL DVD boasts a good 2.35:1 widescreen transfer with original English soundtrack and removeable subtitles, but do be aware that most of the other versions on the market are poor fullframe transfers (Amazon have unhelpfully lumped all the reviews for different editions together).
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
First class film. Picture on web page depicts cover with English titles. Was a bit disturbed when dvd arrived and titles were in Japanese as this was a Korean import. Dialogue however was English. Highly recommend film, good story line based on fact and highly entertaining.
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Rapa Nui [DVD] delivery
Arrived home to see my package had been delivered, excited I opened it. Posted from France, odd. DVD sleeve in french. Oh no! I thought it'll be a french version. Read more
Published 21 months ago by David318i
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I was pleased to receive a copy of this product...till I discovered that the movie was in Japanese!!!
Published on 5 Nov 2009 by Hanne Albrechtsen
This masterpiece deserves more praise than is the case.
Since my youth the fate of Rapanui (which is the correct spelling, by the way) or Easter Island has fascinated me immensely, because it is a border case of humanity, and yet as... Read more
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