Wasabi

Wasabi
by G?rard Krawczyk

Wasabi
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Actor: Carole Bouquet, Jean Reno, Michel Muller, Ryoko Hirosue, Yoshi Oida
Director: G?rard Krawczyk
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-11
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures

Movie Reviews of Wasabi

Movie Review: Probably Reno's best non-English film
Summary: 4 Stars

I remember seeing this movie on pay per view TV once and being awestruck by it. Now that I've seen it again, I've come to appreciate it more. It helps that I think Jean Reno is a marvelous actor, regardless of the kind of Hollywood crap he appears in these days (Da Vinci Code, the American Godzilla movie, the Rollerball remake).

The plot is a little cliched (character realizes he has a long-lost relative), and the additional element of the character traveling to Japan and experiencing culture shock is also a mild cliche, but the other elements of the film overcome this. This film almost never takes itself seriously, from the action scenes that last less than a minute to the film's terrific ending, which I refuse to spoil.

For the most part, Reno puts on a good performance, although he delivers his lines in a slight monotone. Michel Muller is the source of most of the film's humour (including a scene where Reno and Muller both try wasabi, with heavily varying reactions), and the other actors are generally good.

If you're looking for a snappy, self-mocking action film, this is definitely worth checking out. However, I recommend watching the movie in the original French with subtitles, as some of the voices in the dub are horrendous.

Summary of Wasabi

From writer/producer LUC BESSON -- the legendary action filmmaker behind such adrenaline-pumping classics as The Professional and The Fifth Element - comes this hilarious high-impact adventure starring JEAN RENO (Godzilla Mission Impossible) as a burly French cop traveling to Japan to settle an old debt. With his old-school tactics and pit-bull disposition police detective Hubert Fiorentini (Reno) is all business. But his routine existence is disrupted when he learns the only woman he ever loved is dead. Summoned to Tokyo to settle her estate he soon suspects her death was no accident. When he discovers that he is the father of her spirited teenaged daughter things really get complicated.System Requirements:Running Time: 94 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating:?R UPC:?043396100008
This high-energy Dirty Harry in Japan stars Jean Reno (The Professional) as a maverick Paris cop with sledgehammer fists and a short temper. Promoted to sudden fatherhood when he "inherits" a spunky Japanese daughter (Ryoko Hirosue) he never knew, he becomes her droopy guardian angel, protecting her from an army of yakuza gangsters. Written and produced by Luc Besson, the former fashionista director of Euro-sleek shoot-'em-ups, this colorful B-movie blast is as gritty as an oil slick on a water slide but packed with explosive action. Director Gerard Krawczyk punctuates his gunfights with the Hong Kong school of recoil (bullets blast victims across the screen) and an undercurrent of humor. As long as you don't lean too hard on such niggling details as logic, legality, and the laws of physics, this silly, splashy, family bonding bulletfest is a spirited good time. --Sean Axmaker

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