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: It’s no Running Man is it?!
The direction of this film is so shit. I started this maybe 8 years ago and couldn’t get past the first 25 minutes because of how poorly shot it is. But tonight I put my snobbery aside and persevered. Gary Ross (who I do like for Pleasantville and Seabiscuit) doesn’t direct the other films so that fills me with confidence.
I do like Katniss though, so I’m looking forward to more of her going forward.
Afterthoughts: Not really sure how this isn’t classed as a remake of Repulsion (1965)?
Definitely gamerporn. Cool aesthetic. But too gamerporn-emphatic. Perverts.
