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Tanhausser_Gates's rating
So.. Kitano has a sense of humor after all! Just kidding. The movie has some points for the general audience but most of it requires some background in history of Japanese cinema, kitano's career, kitano way of life, etc..
So if you really want to see everything from Kitano's factory it's OK to watch, if you are really knowledgeable about all that stuff you probably got to watch it, but if you are neither one of them then you'll do fine without even knowing that it exists, although if you watch it (and have the presence of mind of not expecting much of it) then you can have a reasonably good time with it.
Kitano is having a hard time accepting he is meant to make movies of a special kind which is not the case of this movie.. He even mentions it in the movie: "I said I wont do another movie with violence and I got to stick to it" Well.. I'm afraid our dear Mr Kitano will have to swallow those words sooner or later, preferably long before he runs out of money.
So if you really want to see everything from Kitano's factory it's OK to watch, if you are really knowledgeable about all that stuff you probably got to watch it, but if you are neither one of them then you'll do fine without even knowing that it exists, although if you watch it (and have the presence of mind of not expecting much of it) then you can have a reasonably good time with it.
Kitano is having a hard time accepting he is meant to make movies of a special kind which is not the case of this movie.. He even mentions it in the movie: "I said I wont do another movie with violence and I got to stick to it" Well.. I'm afraid our dear Mr Kitano will have to swallow those words sooner or later, preferably long before he runs out of money.
Hey, I give it an 8.. So its not like I didn't like it, but by all means this movie never scared me anyone in the theater not even by far.
Yet this is an interesting movie.. Shocking, but not in a gross way. We are used to see the bad guys in all movies depicted like brainless killing machines, but this is different, what if it had a point after all? So here you are unable to judge a guy slamming someone else's head with the first thing at hand hard enough for the job.. OK, that's wrong, you know it, but pictured in the way its explained in this picture you got to admit that perhaps there is a point after all.
And so it goes.. You are watching the self-destruction on the human species in a gruesome but meaningfull way, I know, its contradictory.. Or not?
Yet this is an interesting movie.. Shocking, but not in a gross way. We are used to see the bad guys in all movies depicted like brainless killing machines, but this is different, what if it had a point after all? So here you are unable to judge a guy slamming someone else's head with the first thing at hand hard enough for the job.. OK, that's wrong, you know it, but pictured in the way its explained in this picture you got to admit that perhaps there is a point after all.
And so it goes.. You are watching the self-destruction on the human species in a gruesome but meaningfull way, I know, its contradictory.. Or not?
One of the common issues with time-travel movies is that they are filled with holes in the story, things that you never get to know how happened or why they did happened in the first place.
This movie is perfect in that sense, the plot is squared and every small detail has a meaningful reason to exist so in a way is mathematically perfect.. Which leaves you with a rewarding feeling but on the other hand if you understand the plot you can solve the mystery 3/4 down the movie and the last minutes are just obvious.
But this is a great movie.. Thats why it leaves you wondering what would it had been if the plot were more ambitious and more factors had been involved in the equation. Perhaps more characters and more interaction between them.. Who knows! You just want more!
This movie is perfect in that sense, the plot is squared and every small detail has a meaningful reason to exist so in a way is mathematically perfect.. Which leaves you with a rewarding feeling but on the other hand if you understand the plot you can solve the mystery 3/4 down the movie and the last minutes are just obvious.
But this is a great movie.. Thats why it leaves you wondering what would it had been if the plot were more ambitious and more factors had been involved in the equation. Perhaps more characters and more interaction between them.. Who knows! You just want more!