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Dissapointing

posted 18 years ago by govenor_phatt
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Before you all jump me, no i'm not a troll.

I just rented this from my library the other day and thought it was gonna be great. I love Beat Takeshi and think he's a great actor but i just think that this film could have been a lot better.

It just seemed to me that there are bits of story added in to bits of nothing. The bits of story are really interesting and involving, but the bits of nothing are... well, nothing. Just seems like a lot of unnessecary filler. then the 3rd act seems to just come out of nowhere and everything starts happening, but by that time i couldn't really care because the film spent too much time showing us boring crap that could have been used for characterization and actual plot development.

Also, and i don't know if anyone else had this problem but the subtitles on the version i got were appauling, sometimes it would show entire scenes without any subtitles, and other times it would cut out every other sentence making it impossible to follow the thread.

[–] Mouldyman 18 years ago

I agree, I found the story unengaging and (probably due to subtitling) quite hard to follow. I wasn't interested by any of the characters, and ended up not really caring what happened to them. The film is very bleak, I've read someone's comment that Beat Takeshi removed all traces of comedy from the film, I'd say that was a mistake, the film would have benefited from a change of pace from time to time.

I didn't like the ending, and it was only mildly worse than the beginning and middle. It was advertised as a Japanese Reservoir dogs, but whoever called it that obviously hasn't seen Reservoir dogs.

Still, it was worth a try, but based on this one, I don't think I'll be sampling any more of Beat's work

[–] Darth_Vaux 18 years ago

I thoroughly disagree. This was the first Takeshi Kitano film I saw and found it absolutely fan-boy-tastic. It sparked my obsession with all of his movies. It is a fantastic tale of revenge and anger.

The ending was awesome. How could you not enjoy the final shoot out with Azuma walking a shooting and Kikuchi pulling guns out of a cardboard box shooting each one until they are out of bullets. Great duel both riddled with bullets. Not to mention Azuma shooting his sister in the face to end her newfound heroin addiction.

Fantastic movie beginning to end. The bat scene, the stabbing in the alley, not one point in this film did I find disappointing.

Great starting point for anyone interested in the work of Takeshi Kitano.

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[–] sluido 17 years ago

Nowhere near as good as his other stuff, very disappointing especially the story.

[–] m-tech 17 years ago

I love this film (except for the crappy subtitles)

This was the first film of his that I saw and it blewme away at the time as I had never seen anything like it before.

[–] Cyclone_Chyno 15 years ago

I have to agree with the OP

I bought this some time ago because of Beat and I was quite perplexed by the seemingly random cuts to scenes with no explanation (The scene where Beat and the Yakuza hitman have a fight in the street, how Beat's movie-sister came to be with the gang...........on a side note the back of the case made it seem like the cops journey was to get his sister but you could almost swear that he didn't know the gang had his sister and her role was really pointless in the end)

[–] heelmaster2000 14 years ago

I gotta agree, that this was not that good of a film, in fact imo it was the directors worst. Which is to bad, because he is such a great director/actor.

[–] stephencheevers 14 years ago

i LOVED IT
Kitano's character is flawed and little on the edge
The bad guys were far mor interesting then in any Amercian cop and gangster movie. the violence brillantly bloody, it isn't his best film(hanna-bi is his best for me) but i dare Hollywood to make a film like this

[–] Zoomorph 14 years ago

Pretty good film I gave it 6/10. A little bit slow paced, but that is hardly a critique for a film. If you want fast brainless action, then I'm sure you can find many hollywood films instead!

*spoiler*

I was pleasantly surprised at the end where he shot his sister. I was thinking... I wonder if he'll shoot her too, nah they'll probably not put that in a film rather he'll overflow with pity or something, and then it happened! :)

~ Observe, and act with clarity. ~

[–] Exit_Music 14 years ago

This movie was amazing. The pacing wasn't any different from his Yakuza films and the score (Or lack of) was ok. It did have one of the most beautiful on-foot chase scenes, imo. The ending was absolutely brilliant. It's slowly becoming my favorite Takeshi film.