As far as big a HUGE Takashi Miike fan, I had yet to see Dead Or Alive or any of his Yakuza series that never really tempted me. But, being a loyal fan, I did took a look at one of his many yakuza movie. I find it suspicious when a director is obsessed with a theme... I listened to that movie with some suspicious in the back of my mind.
Before the movie I found an interview with Miike on the DVD where I thought he was childish about the violence in his movies. Fact is, Takashi Miike discovered himself as an intelligent filmmaker..it all started up with the very Hitchcockian Audition. Dead Or Alive was before that...
As far as a genre movie goes it's pretty good. It has the best damn gun fights i've ever seen. The opening sequence is mind blowing and shows a lot about Miike's INCREDIBLE talent to film violence and make it larger than life. Sadly, it gets a bit slow and lazy after that. Miike is offering looong shots, trying to be an unorthodox filmmakers, but except for his shots taken into the corner of the rooms, it cuts the rhythm bad. Usually I like Miike for pissing on Antonioni's style, but this one seem to recreate the comtemplativity of the old Italian.
And...my major upset...
The sh*t bath scene.SPOILERS. OK...I think there is a way to film everything...INCLUDING A WAY TO FILM P**P YES! He brilliantly achieved it in Bizita Q, making the necrophilia scene even more grime. But this one is just a childish disgusting scene of a prostitute drowning in her sh*t. It has no meaning in the move and it sucks. If I want scat porn i'm gonna get it trough the internet. If you are and intelligent film maker like Miike and film this kind of atrocity...FILM IT GOOD GODD*MIT and not like an amateur internet porn camera.
...I feel relieved maybe i'll stop nightmaring about it now...
The ending scene gets the movie into the cult zone, damn this is a contemporary western dual with incredible weapons. This is AWESOME! The opening and the ending sequence makes me happy that i've seen it...but it wasn't one of the best Miike...
...In fact, for his standard it was ordinary
Before the movie I found an interview with Miike on the DVD where I thought he was childish about the violence in his movies. Fact is, Takashi Miike discovered himself as an intelligent filmmaker..it all started up with the very Hitchcockian Audition. Dead Or Alive was before that...
As far as a genre movie goes it's pretty good. It has the best damn gun fights i've ever seen. The opening sequence is mind blowing and shows a lot about Miike's INCREDIBLE talent to film violence and make it larger than life. Sadly, it gets a bit slow and lazy after that. Miike is offering looong shots, trying to be an unorthodox filmmakers, but except for his shots taken into the corner of the rooms, it cuts the rhythm bad. Usually I like Miike for pissing on Antonioni's style, but this one seem to recreate the comtemplativity of the old Italian.
And...my major upset...
The sh*t bath scene.SPOILERS. OK...I think there is a way to film everything...INCLUDING A WAY TO FILM P**P YES! He brilliantly achieved it in Bizita Q, making the necrophilia scene even more grime. But this one is just a childish disgusting scene of a prostitute drowning in her sh*t. It has no meaning in the move and it sucks. If I want scat porn i'm gonna get it trough the internet. If you are and intelligent film maker like Miike and film this kind of atrocity...FILM IT GOOD GODD*MIT and not like an amateur internet porn camera.
...I feel relieved maybe i'll stop nightmaring about it now...
The ending scene gets the movie into the cult zone, damn this is a contemporary western dual with incredible weapons. This is AWESOME! The opening and the ending sequence makes me happy that i've seen it...but it wasn't one of the best Miike...
...In fact, for his standard it was ordinary