RiffTrax rating: ****
Rewatched this as livestream on Gizmoplex
A decent episode overall but not the grand finale I’d expected or hoped considering this is Shintaro Katsu’s last Zatoichi film. Entertaining enough but not as engaging or as powerful as the best films of the series, but there’s definitely been worse.
Why yes I am crying. And so are you.
- the longer review -
After finishing up a long morning of appointments and having the rest of the day off of school I asked my 13 year old boy:
"Do you still wanna see Love, Simon?"
"Yeah, why not?"
"Well we could go right now and see it at 12:45 or there's another at 2..."
"It's probably better to go now and do the first one."
"Ok then, perfect."
"...…
Visually marvellous!
...and now a more expanded 'review' after having slept on it...
Saw this with my Ltrbxd comrade, LaserDisc and we very much enjoyed it.
I was originally supposed to see it with my wife and son but plans changed and I saw it a couple days after they did. They were nice enough not to tell me anything other than how much they loved it - apparently he sat leaning forward on the edge of his seat and…