Casshern
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Movie Reviews of Casshern
Movie Review: Casshern - Director's Cut
Summary: 3 Stars
Amazon is incorrect in the listing of the runtime - this is the 125 minute version (117 minute in the UK). This has not been edited by the studio (like Zu Warriors/Legend of Zu etc). This is the official Director's Cut of the movie (if you look closely at the box art you will see the banner at the top also informs you of this)- it just so happens that the Director's Cut is a lot shorter than the released theatrical version - a Director's Cut does not mean a longer cut! I like the unedited version although it does have a tendancy to ramble a bit...so I would be interested in seeing this version.
Movie Review: Overbudgeted Mess
Summary: 2 Stars
"Casshern" is a beautiful mess. Unfortunately, Kazuaki Kirya's story is so utterly confusing that it's hard to care about the characters, much less follow who is a neo cell clone and who is a human being. Akira Terao plays Professor Azuma who discovers the neo cell and proclaims it the salvation from those suffering from numerous diseases such as radiation sickness as a result of the 50-year war between men and a large number of machines that look somewhat like transformers. [SPOILER ALERT] Yusake Iseya whose voice was in the animae feature "Tekkonkinkreet" plays the lead Tetsuya who is brought back to life and put in a great protective suit that is stained with blood for most of the film. One wonders why he can't do laundry or take a shower. Kumiko Aso plays his wife Luna whose relationship with her husband is nebulously defined. Kanako Higuchi as the mother/wife Midori Azuma fares the best. She gets to lay unconscious on some lovely cobalt blue sheets. We think we're rooting for the professor until he decides to shoot his daughter-in-law in the head to teach his son a lesson about loss. The reason Dreamworks picked this up is obviously the great computer generated cinematography that is breathtaking. However, if you want to look at picture, go to a gallery and check out a painting. If you want to watch a film, it has to have a coherent story. This one bounces between the past and future and several sets of characters to the point that it is a joy when the final credits roll. Yes, cinema critics profound will love this picture, but IMHO it's an overbudgeted mess. Taxi!Movie Review: Gawd Awful
Summary: 2 Stars
In a nutshell--don't waste your precious time. There's plenty of interesting imagery in this movie but little else. More like watching a very long video game. The film goes from super fast anime style action with editing so rapid that you can't even be sure of what you are seeing(complete with speed lines flowing from the fast moving characters) to long meaningless speeches where characters face off verbally in cavernous rooms. There are robot armies that look as though they were borrowed from the George Pal Puppetoon screwball armies. The symbol used by the one faction calling themselves "neo-sapiens" is a cross between a swastika and a 45 RPM record spindle adapter. The one army uses Nazi style helmets and uniforms. There's a touch of Jesus and the three wise men imagery tossed in, as well. It's a hodge podge of images combined to trigger various emotions within you but when you actually examine the story, you realize there's nothing to examine but a collection of interesting pictures.Movie Review: There are so much better Japanese movies...
Summary: 2 Stars
Like so many films today, this is one whose premise is much better than the actual film. The trailer shows you all you really need to see. Yes, it is impressive to see a bunch of random body parts suddenly coming together to form Frankenstein-like (although seamlessly put together) mutants and it is nice seeing the title character kick the crap out of a bunch of robots but the painfully slow pace of meaningless plot between these great scenes are punishing. It could do with a round of editing, reducing the length of each scene which might turn it into something worth sitting through. As for the mix of animation and live-action, it just doesn't work. It looks like when Mary Poppins and all jumped into the sea and danced with the animated fish. Save for the mutants, the acting isn't as bad as most current Japanese SF flicks but that is a mixed blessing.Movie Review: Incorrect Run Time?
Summary: 2 Stars
This is not a review of the film, because for that I would give it 4 stars. I'm talking about the 80 minute American run-time, and I don't think that Amazon has it listed incorrectly either. It is similar to the case of Jet Li's Fearless, the American directors cut was a half hour shorter than the Chinese original directors cut. Do what I did and by the original Japenese version. You'll get the full run-time, and two extra discs of special feature. Damn you America for butchering foreign cinema.