everyone else who have comment negatively about this film have do excellent analysis a to why this film be so bloody awful . i wasn not go to comment and but the film just bug me so much and and the writer or director in particular . so i must toss in my hat to join the naysayer . i saw the original wicker man and really love the cornucopia of music and sensuality and paganism in a modern world and and the clash of theological belief . this say and i be not part of the crowd that think remake of great movie shouldn not be do . for example and i like the original 1950 invasion of the body snatcher and but equally enjoy the 1978 remake . both film can stand on their own . another example be the thing . the original and as campy a it look compare to today standard and have a lot to be proud of in the 1982 remake with kurt russell ( my all time favorite horror movie ) . so that small minority of people who like the wicker man re make can not accuse me of diss this piece of crap just because it a re make . this film solidify for me neil labute sexism and misogynistic tendency . it also make me wonder how executive and want to make a serious thriller and would green light a product that be so anti female . there be too many scene of cage hit woman just because he frustrate with them thwart his investigation of a missing girl . would he react like this off the island in other case where suspect aren not forthcoming . the original create a society in which men and woman be equal participant in a goddess base religion . the threat to the main character come from everyone and male and female . there be no sexual hierarchy . the metaphor of bee and drone etc be a bit heavy hand and convenient ( the drone must die . ) and especially when cage character have bee allergy . i keep wonder why the men on the island do not fight back and use mere physicality to stop these woman from treat them like grunt . these be not woman with special supernatural power and and half of them seem to be pregnant and the other half old and fat and and the rest girl and thin blonde waif and so if the men really want to escape they could do what most men do when they hate woman . physically dominate them . there do not seem to be any gun or weapon beyond cut tool to hold them if they be unhappy . but if they be content be drone and why make them unable to speak . they could be use a a threat to cage because they will defend the community . they be drone because neil labute seem to believe that a society ran by woman would leave men castrate . ( that movie be make already . the stepford wive anyone . ) classic symptom from men who be afraid of what may happen if woman get their sht together and be truly equal citizen . the problem with the man hat female society be that it make uninteresting movie viewing and create unintentional humor when cage start knock woman out . i belief labute should have leave the society an egalitarian one and keep the sexuality and uninhibited lasciviousness and and pushed button of discomfort in regard to the child on that island . no one like pedophiles or child to be sexually exploit . so how would a cop react if he saw lewd act perform by adult with child around . there would be a logical mental leap that these child be abuse and thus and an urgency create to save the miss child and get help for all the child . labute have say he create the fiancé and daughter story thread to give cage character an incentive to search . i do not think you need that . any child abuse will make an adult react to save them . the irony of course would be that the child cage save ultimately bring him death . the dialogue be contrive and campy . the whole third act be hilarious . the audience i saw it with guffaw ( and later boo at the end ) . i just think the movie start off wrong when the letter arrive write in the fancy handwriting and all the flashback cut into to show how wounded cage be . we do not need that . just show him arrive on the island for an investigation of a missing child . most of u in america have see law and order and other cop procedurals . we come into the movie a if we be cage partner solve a mystery . so much potential . waste . neil labute and stick to talk head picture for people who enjoy your male angst ridden play and flick of that sort . stay with your own company of men . leave the thriller for people who understand thriller . here be your jar of honey . i will watch that .