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Summary: wow!!!
Review: really a great fun flic
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Summary: Beyond awesome......this movie is swell
Review: You have to love a film with cool music and samurai. This film actually has original ideas in the plot, unlike most of the trash that is out today. A great film.
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Summary: cool
Review: Its worth checking out,plenty of sword action,a cool idea stretched out a little too thin,not sure about the ending,4.5 stars actually.
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Summary: Cool film ruined by one poor character choice.
Review: Like most people, I heard about this film long before I finally got around to seeing it on TV. Mostly I heard that it was some kind of kung-fu movie that was trying to cash on the whole swing music revival of the mid-90s. I must admit, that this would have been a very interesting movie, if not for one character. The squealing wild boy. At the start of the film, the six string samurai runs afoul of a feral kid who becomes his traveling companion through out the film. Unfortunately, this kid communicates via a high pitched, loud grunting sound. A very annoying high pitched loud grunting sound. This kid is constantly on screen, more than the samurai, grunting ever louder and being annoying. After a while, you realize that this character is not going to shut up, and is going to ruin the entire movie! This film would have been a thousand times better if they had made that kid a mute. Because this irritant kid's sound is heard at nausea through the run of the film, you will soon begin to hate this kid. You accurately begin to look forward to the scenes were he is silent, and shivers run down your spine when he reappears, with his loud squeal. Go ahead and watch this film, but keep the mute button handy.
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Summary: Buddy Holly: Way Of The Samurai
Review: If you try to pigeonhole "Six-String Samurai", it will make your brain spark, sputter and billow smoke like one of those evil computers on "Star Trek" that could be defeated by a deliberate overload of its logic circuits. At any rate, if you tend to gravitate toward "cult" cinema,I'm sure you'll get a "kick" out of this kung fu-western-rock musical-post apocalyptic-mythic-fantasy-adventure-satire.A good music soundtrack and well choreographed action scenes push along a story bereft of much dialogue, while echoes of "Road Warrior ,"A Boy And His Dog",and "Crossroads" bounce off the canyons of "Shane" and "Red Sun". The movie could have used some judicious trimming (when are producers going to realize that there's really no shame in a tight 75-minute feature?!) File under "quirky and low budget", but quite entertaining.
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Summary: Cool film ruined by one poor character choice.
Review: Like most people, I heard about this film long before I finally got around to seeing it on TV. Mostly I heard that it was some kind of kung-fu movie that was trying to cash on the whole swing music revival of the mid-90s. I must admit, that this would have been a very interesting movie, if not for one character. The squealing wild boy. At the start of the film, the six string samurai runs afoul of a feral kid who becomes his traveling companion through out the film. Unfortunately, this kid communicates via a high pitched, loud grunting sound. A very annoying high pitched loud grunting sound. This kid is constantly on screen, more than the samurai, grunting ever louder and being annoying. After a while, you realize that this character is not going to shut up, and is going to ruin the entire movie! This film would have been a thousand times better if they had made that kid a mute. Because this irritant kid's sound is heard at nausea through the run of the film, you will soon begin to hate this kid. You accurately begin to look forward to the scenes were he is silent, and shivers run down your spine when he reappears, with his loud squeal. Go ahead and watch this film, but keep the mute button handy.
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Summary: One of my favorite movies of all time
Review: Now, the idea of a rockabilly/martial arts/postapocalyptic flick done on a shoestring may sound like the result of mixing medications, but in this case, it works! Six String Samurai's tale of Buddy and his quest to take Elvis's throne as the new King of Lost Vegas - the last cradle of American 'civilization' - has a few slow parts, but is generally pretty entertaining. The fights are good (mercifully bereft of 'wire fu') and the idea is realized pretty well. Russkie rockabilly group the Red Elvises do some of their best work in the soundtrack, and the guitar battle between rockabilly and heavy metal is a pretty cool symbolic showdown. I only gave it three stars for the occasional slow parts, and all in all, I would buy it again.
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Summary: The Best Movie I Didn't Want To See...
Review: "Six-string Samurai" is the type of film where you get the feeling that the title came first, then a plot was developed around it. There are plenty of moments here, and some good ideas that are marred by an overall poor production and poor directorial talent. Perhaps there is a little bit too much self-conscious concern on being cool and cultish. Also, there is an annoying little kid. When you have no budget, and no experience, you have to make up for it in style. Unfortunately, that didn't happen here. The by-the-numbers directorial approach is what really hampers this flick, with a lack of any innovation or stunning creativity. This is no "El Mariachi" or "Evil Dead." The few saving graces of "Six-string Samurai" are a really cool soundtrack, quite necessary to a flick like this, and Jeffrey Falcon. Falcon is an actual martial artist, and a veteran of Hong Kong martial arts cinema where he plays characters such as "Caucasian Villain," "Caucasian Killer" and "Caucasian Fighter." While not a stunning actor, he has the style necessary to carry a role like Buddy, and lends some authenticity to the fights. In the hands of another director, this could have really been something. Too bad.
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Summary: 5 Stars for the Sheer Campiness Alone
Review: This movie was possibly the biggest letdown of my life. I heard from a friend that this was a film I would truly enjoy. We were both big Bill and Ted fans and when he told me the plot of the movie I was nothing less than stunned. It sounded brilliant. Russians takeover the US and ninja guitar players duke it out to see who will be king of Lost Vegas (sic). I understand that some pseudo-intellectual film junkie would find this to be moronic, but for the majority of fun-loving filmgoers, this flick sounds brilliant.
So, instead of being intelligent and renting it, I buy it. Big mistake. I pop in the DVD and I'm extremely excited. The beginning is promising. Fight scenes, rocking music, until the kid shows up. Good lord, what moron over at the editorial staff of this movie allowed this kid to stay. He screams interminably throughout the whole goddamn movie! He made me want to jump through my television and wring his heinous little neck. But that's not my only gripe. How about the two lines of dialogue throughout the whole movie? I felt like I was watching the Power Rangers. "You will now bow down to heavy metal?" The movie would truly have been better with no talking at all. Lastly, how about the last few fight scenes. Buddy seems to have died at least three times at the end, and the little kid comes over and cries each time. Magically, he's back to life, until the end when he is finally truly killed and that talent less little kid picks up his guitar and suddenly grows five feet while walking to Lost Vegas.
One of the most painful films ever. AVOID. Brilliant idea, horribly executed.
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