rightwingisevil

This paces of this movie is way too slow. The lighting is too dim all the time; too many night scenes and rainy night scenes. The leading male actor is so overacting to pretend that he is a geek and a loner. When her ex beat her so viciously, keeps hitting and slapping her non-stop, yet her face still looks perfect without any bruise, no swollen or puffy bluish purple wounds, her lips still looks perfect, no blood at all. The elevator scene of the movie theater is outrageous impossible without any logic. The screenplay is full of loopholes. This is a very slow, without energy thriller.

We have already seen lot of Spaghetti Western made by the Italian movie makers. It had not only fortunately enough created several great imitated American Western movies, but also created several famous actors, such as Clint Eastwood, who later became an Oscar Winning director, made the original Unforgiven in 1992. But unfortunately, this Japanese adaptation from it was such a weird scripted Udon or Ramen Western with a very bad screenplay and a very weird historical background. It's almost as absurd and unwatchable like the Korean Kimchi western, The Good the Bad the Weird (2008). Both were made for the morons to kill the time, I, for one, would only stick to the original to avoid brain damage.

Who took too many acting contracts that had caused both of his physical and mental conditions deteriorated so much. His physical condition in this movie was so bad that we could almost see and feel how bone-tired he was. He couldn't even open his eyes, acted like a walking-stiff zombie. There's nothing we could fetch out of his performance in this movie. No passion, no energy, just sleepwalking through the whole movie. This movie was luckily saved by the lovely and talented leading actress, Sichun Ma, who single-handedly kept the movie going and maintain its watch worthiness. After this movie, my wife and me both had predicted that Huo's career would be crashed and burnt. He'd lose all the acting contracts in China. Yet we also predicted that Ms. Ma's acting career would be unlimited and successful after her great performance in this movie.