Versus (Director's Cut)
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Movie Reviews of Versus (Director's Cut)
Movie Review: Pulp Fiction meets Night of the Living Dead with swords
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie is one part Pulp Fiction, one part Blair Witch Project, one part Jackie Chan styled kung-fu funny movie, one part Night of the Living Dead, one part Dead Alive, one part Seven Samurais, one part anime and one part cheese. What does all this add up to? A totally unique movie.Versus is all of the above mentioned rolled up into one twisted movie. The action scenes are good. They have an anime feel to them but the actors execute them with a Pulp Fiction sense of cool. Lots of gun play, there had to be over 1000 rounds fired in the first half. The sword fighting is really good. Very fast paced and gory.
At times the acting is a little cheesy. The director is really fond of long dramatic pauses. A little too long for me. He must have gone to the William Shatner School of Film.
The plot is weird and kind of hard to explain. Guy busts out of prison. Meets up with the Yakuza who have kidnapped some random girl. While waiting for "The Boss" to show up, the guy gets angry with the Yakuza, kills one of them. Guy grabs girl and the chase is on. And once "The Boss" (a 500 hundred year old mystic that kicks serious butt) shows up, the action really gets going.
This movie is worth buying. But buy the Director's cut. The Special Edition doesn't really offer enough to warrant the extra ... dollars.
Movie Review: Pulp Fiction meets Night of the Living Dead with swords
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie is one part Pulp Fiction, one part Blair Witch Project, one part Jackie Chan styled kung-fu funny movie, one part Night of the Living Dead, one part Dead Alive, one part Seven Samurais, one part anime and one part cheese. What does all this add up to? A totally unique movie.Versus is all of the above mentioned rolled up into one twisted movie. The action scenes are good. They have an anime feel to them but the actors execute them with a Pulp Fiction sense of cool. Lots of gun play, there had to be over 1000 rounds fired in the first half. The sword fighting is really good. Very fast paced and gory.
At times the acting is a little cheesy. The director is really fond of long dramatic pauses. A little too long for me. He must have gone to the William Shatner School of Film.
The plot is weird and kind of hard to explain. Guy busts out of prison. Meets up with the Yakuza who have kidnapped some random girl. While waiting for "The Boss" to show up, the guy gets angry with the Yakuza, kills one of them. Guy grabs girl and the chase is on. And once "The Boss" (a 500 hundred year old mystic that kicks serious butt) shows up, the action really gets going.
This movie is worth buying. But buy the Director's cut. The Special Edition doesn't really offer enough to warrant the extra $10 dollars.
Movie Review: It aint the same ole, same ole.
Summary: 4 Stars
But it takes its cues from 'em. The reviewer (dude) who said this flick was not a combination of Reservoir Dogs and Evil Dead was right. But the influence of those and other films of their genre give this fun (although long in the middle) flick its heart and soul.Kitamura has weaved together kung-fu, deadly zombies, decapitations, mutilations, some great bullet ballet, and plenty of humor, thrown in all on some very cliched criminal types, filmed it often at a frentic pace, and waited to see what would happen. Hey what happened was fun for all.
The only negative comes from a big exposition slow down a little over half-way. And boy does he slam on the breaks. But when we finally get back to the action it's a hoot, and its way over the top.
As usual the dubbing is only so good and detracts from what appear to be great scene chewing performances, but other than learning Japanese what a ya gonna do?? The commentary included here is funny at times but is very lacking in real information.
The quality is not bad.
Oh 0ne other thing, the ending had a twist a pretty good one. So enjoy.
Movie Review: Not what I was expecting
Summary: 4 Stars
When I first heard of this movie from a friend, they gave it such high acclaim, it made me eager to see it. But they never mentioned it was a low-budget film with comedy. They just mentioned great fight scenes. So when the film began, I was scared at how shakey the camera was. But I gave it the chance it rightfully deserves, and I got a nice mix-up for a movie I was expecting to be simple action.
I must say that the one oddity of this film was the whole portals thing they mentioned. The whole thing about 666 portals is rather irrelivant. You just need to know they're at a place called "The Forest of Ressurection" and they were destined to be there. They'll explain why without the whole portals thing. I understand it, don't get me wrong. But, like the cops they occasionally show in the film, it serves no purpose.
If you remember this film is low-budget, you'll see how remarkable it really is. It's filled with action, swords, guns, zombies, the whole nine yards. And there's the beauty of a twist in the end.
Movie Review: Slick Flick
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a pretty slick zombie flick. What it lacks in substance it makes up for in style. The actors perform well considering the plot is a little weak. It seemed like all they did was walk and talk in circles. These guys also never heard of keeping the guns of the people they bury. Besides those minor points this is a great movie full of frantic action and comedy. The DVD is crystal clear with nice 5.1 sound for Japanese with subtitles. There's not a whole lot of extras on the directors cut but it's still worth the purchase. This is a must own for Zombie fans.