FrighT MasteR
03-23-2008, 08:55 PM
This was a love-it-hate-it-type film for me. On one hand the whole concept of a Japanese western is really intriguing and the movie offered some cool characters and sequences, but on the other hand it was hard to understand WTF they were saying and (much like Miike's previous films) there were a lot of pointless and uncessary/weird scenes.
Overall, I liked the movie, but I couldn't help bust fast-forward some of the more ridiculous parts. The "Engrish" spoken throughout the flick does tend to make things less enjoyable, and I especially hated Tarantino's cameo in the beginning, since he decided to give himself some strange accent as well (which was harder to understand than most of the Japanese actors).
Had the movie taken a more serious tone, weeded out the uncessary stuff, and maybe spoke in Japanese with English subs, then I would have liked it a bit more.
7/10
http://imdb.com/title/tt0906665/
Overall, I liked the movie, but I couldn't help bust fast-forward some of the more ridiculous parts. The "Engrish" spoken throughout the flick does tend to make things less enjoyable, and I especially hated Tarantino's cameo in the beginning, since he decided to give himself some strange accent as well (which was harder to understand than most of the Japanese actors).
Had the movie taken a more serious tone, weeded out the uncessary stuff, and maybe spoke in Japanese with English subs, then I would have liked it a bit more.
7/10
http://imdb.com/title/tt0906665/