An all-round stand up chap.
1: Trash; 2: Bad/Flawed; 3: Solid; 4: Great; 5: Exceptional
I was already worn out after Chapter 3 and this one didn't swing me back around. I watched Chapter 4 mostly to be a completionist about the whole series, and hopefully be surprised. So, yeah, nunchaku? I can dig it. Sure.
But despite a bunch of new stuff, it was the old stuff (fighting through a crowed club again? Fighting in a blue neon glass room again?) and the homage stuff (the Warriors stuff, even the Hotline Miami? stuff) that kept…
A lot of fun! What more could you want. It's amazing what happens when you clearly involve people who like (dare I say love?) the material they're working with and adapting, and (presumably) get out of their way I'M LOOKING AT YOU JOHN PETERS
Before we start, can we all just agree that the "GoPro action movie" was just not a good aesthetic? It was a fantastic gimmick that could show off just how talented and coordinated a fight/stunt team was, but it really does suck at making action read cleanly on screen. It's inevitable that you cross the line where you say "damn, that was amazing, I wish I knew what was going on there."
That being said, I am always down for a…
Man, I miss this store so much.
It was always funny to me how other people seemed to know so little about Ninja Tune at the time, and now I find out in this film that they did almost 50% of all Ninja's US sales out of that one shop. 😂
Also: we need a prequel Kim's Video documentary now