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Movie Reviews of Wasabi
Movie Review: FAST AND FUNNY ACTION
Summary: 3 Stars
WASABI is a light-weight Hong Kong action film from writer/producer Luc Besson starring the always charismatic Jean Reno. High-energy hi-jinks unfold when no-nonsense Paris detective Fiorentini (Reno) is summoned to Tokyo to settle the estate of the only woman he loved. He discovers that her death was not an accident and that he's the father of a strong-willed, red-haired, Japanese teenage daughter (who is worth hundreds of millions of dollars (not yen). Oh yes, and some very, very, very bad guys want the big bucks.
Terrific action set pieces deliver the pleasurable jolt of the spicy title.
I liked this move a lot as a passing diversion. No profound meaning, but it sure looks great and the action rarely lets up for more than a few minutes. And there's plenty of sly wit to season the mayhem.
Much better than you might first guess since you're probably wondering why you haven't heard of this title. With Reno and Besson doing their thing, it's slick and colorful and sly.
Movie Review: French Action Satire...
Summary: 3 Stars
A tough Parisian cop, Hubert Fiorentini (Jean Reno), accidentally beats up the Police Chief's son and is asked to take some time off. In the process, his long lost love of19 years back appears to have died and has given him everything in her will. This means that he has to go to Japan and as he arrives he also finds out that he has a daughter that is now 19 years old who has developed a huge dislike for authority. In addition, there is a bank account with 200 million dollars in it and someone is trying to threaten him and his daughter in order to get it. A question remains as to where the money came from and who is after it. Wasabi is an action comedy that plays with parody as Hubert drags along his huge .44mm Magnum Smith & Wesson, however, the story gets lost in the jokes. This serves as the foundation for a cinematic experience that is neither remarkable or common.Movie Review: French or American?
Summary: 2 Stars
Wasabi, one of the latest products of Luc Besson sector. However anti-American movie fans have raised their `Yankee Go Home' banners; to my mind this comedy - action film which is harmonized with French - Japon sensibilities, can be an alternative film to American movies.Luc Besson - Jean Reno cooperation is going on. Leading character Hubert is a puncher policeman just like in American movies, ignoring legal details, fighting against the bad people. Again just like in American movies, Hubert has a chief who is complaining and shouting all the times; at the other hand he likes Hubert. Love book of Hubert is empty for 19 years, after a Japon woman has broken his heart and left him with memories, meal descriptions and a beautiful pen. Hubert has closed his love book and has focused on crime world. Then he learns that his Japan woman has died and has left him an inheritance: a daughter. Time for a Japan voyage.
Just focusing on the story, it is easy to think that this film doesn't have any difference from American ones. But this film isn't an American popcorn movie; it is a French / Japan popcorn movie.
There are enough big guns, rocket launchers, bombs; but the action scenes is not in American style, Hubert generally finishes his work quickly with one punch. In American movies the bullets let people fly backward for 2 meters; Hubert can fly people for 5 meters.
Sense of humor which is full of small coincidences and comic events is extremely French. Lets turn to the Japan side of the film: there are many Japan people. The beautiful girl of the film is Hubert's Japan daughter Yumi. I find her very cute with her teenage gestures and phone talks beginning with `mochie, mochie'.
By this film, I've surprised that there are many Japan including policemen and mobsters speaking French very well.
If you want to watch a French (and a little Japan) comedy - action movie similar with American ones (but not in American style), I'll advice you this film. At worst you will lose time.
Movie Review: Where is the real Besson?
Summary: 2 Stars
Great movie, great cinematics, great "no-plot" and great fun... only if you literally swallow "Wasabi" down your throat just exactly as Jean Reno does by almost the end of the movie. Forget the good-ol' Reno-The-Cleaner (Nikita), do not expect any twisting, noir and all-french action-plot: just pretend your are reading a colorful comic-book with plenty of no-brainer action.Besson should get back to deeper, more elaborated plots, with possibly less color extravaganza and much more atmosphere and acting.
Movie Review: just a bad movie
Summary: 1 Stars
why do people even care of make these movies especially with great actors like Reno. I would like to know what Reno himself feels about this movie once he had seen it after completion. incoherent completely abnormal and pathetic story line. something between James Bond and Black Rain. This is a disaster of a movie. most directors think that if they can take the plot to Japan or Korea then every thing can be solved using the gang related plot. Well then you end up with this kind of junk movie . This is not worth watching