Advantages: Stylish, Fun, Action Filled, Off The Wall Thriller Disadvantages: Boring Central Character and Weak Ending
The City Of Lost Souls - 2000 - Japan
Supercharged fantasy thriller from Takashi (Audtion & Ichi The Killer) Miike. I think this is one of Miike's most accessible films it's more fun, less violent and faster moving than most of his films. In this violent action/comedy/thriller, Teah (A half Brazilian half Japanese model) plays Mario a supercool gunman trying to save his girlfriend from the clutches of an evil, bondage obsessed Triad boss who loves ... ...of cocaine from the triads and all hell breaks loose. Throw in a bad guy with a mohawk, martial arts, a cockfight filmed in the style of the matrix, plenty of Hong Kong inspired shoot outs, a blind girl and a booby trapped ping pong table you start to get the idea. As usual with Miike the cinematography is crisp glossy and colourful. He uses quick editing and different grades of film to great effect. This is quite a high budget film and it shows! ...
fraz1511 23.03.2007
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