Review: Just when you thought Takashi Miike couldn’t get any more depraved than Ichi the Killer, he delivers this straight-to-video nasty in the same year!
Upon starting the film, you’ll be convinced you’ve been given the wrong disc (or downloaded the wrong thing entirely), so please bear with the 12 minute opening sequence.
As perverse as the film is, Miike has a bold and painfully-true statement to make about human behaviour. The end of the 20th Century saw the mass…
Afterthoughts: Another laugh riot, from one of cinema's most productive and downright strange auteurs.
I love this film so much, and upon what is now my 4th viewing, the novelty has still not worn off! This Kurosawa-Leone-Tarantino mashup is one of those perfect 'show your friends' kinda films; one you thought could only possibly exist in your wildest dreams.
Miike references, homages and parodies all the generic conventions of both the samurai and spaghetti western classics of old in the…
Afterthoughts: Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock in this - wow! What a finale. Absolutely brilliant.
Afterthoughts: This is one freaky film! The whole thing is like a creepy nightmare. How could Zemeckis possibly think motion capture technology was developed enough to make a feature length film with. The characters are so void of the emotions the animators are trying to show, and instead of a festive family film, it all feels like a nightmarish horror film.
Bit tight getting Tom Hanks to just play everyone 😂 Beowulf and A Christmas Carol are much, much better!
Definitely gamerporn. Cool aesthetic. But too gamerporn-emphatic. Perverts.
