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Summary: Don't turn it off when you really want to...
Review: I basically bought this movie 'cause I thought the front cover was pretty cool (I even have a T-shirt with that logo on it). I read the reviews here, and figured I'd give it a shot.First thing "Versus" started up, I was already groaning. The film quality was retro "my neighbor's camcorder", the acting was REALLY bad and it wasn't really living up to anything special. The music was okay, but I have a history of liking some strange music... also, sometimes the music is loud enough to where it's kind of hard to hear what is being said clearly. About twenty minutes in (do try to last that long), the mood changes and it becomes more bearable, and then the story kind of comes together. It starts becoming interesting (which until then, I felt I had just wasted thirty bucks to see this movie). The main character emerges (first twenty minutes will leave you going "uhh... who am I suppose to be rooting for here?") and they begin to develop what personality he has. I really feel that this movie would have been better left in Japanese with subtitles. The voice-overs, where-as they match up okay were fairly annoying in general (the bad guy and the good guy were done pretty well, but everyone else sounds like the old Hong Kong flicks from the 70s with the whiny voices) What I had envisioned was kind of a dark-souled samurai fighting the undead... What it ended up being was more of good/evil battle with the zombies being more of an excuse to fire off a bunch of bullets and to explain later events. Also, don't hold your breath for the sword-fighting, it comes kind of late in the film. The ending was fairly thought provoking, and aside from the fact blood is applied with a fire-hose, and none of the zombies are really "zombie-ish" (they're live people with a lot of blood on 'em and it shows) Versus really wasn't that bad. I'd probably suggest renting it, if you can find it at your local video store. This film is more for your die-hard martial arts/horror B-movie fan...
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Summary: COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY
Review: where do i begin? it's boring, the dialogue is lame, the voice overs are beyond the normal cheesiness of a film like this, the plot circles around without ever going anywhere, and the "martial arts" are merely cheap theatrics. the only thing about this movie that could possibly make it even halfway decent are the zombies, but they're not quite enough to make this peice of crap redeemable.actually, the most entertaining parts of this movie are those where the main female character (a weak whining idiot) gets knocked over the head by the male characters
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Summary: Drool...
Review: Within the first 10 minutes of watching this movie, I thought "OK this is kinda lame"...but then the guns really starting going off and the pace picked up. Oh man, this is ironically the BEST "AWFUL PIECE OF CR*P" movie (at least in comparison to what you'd find in the Criterion Collection) I own! I can't get enough of it! I've a huge collection of all types Asian cinema, but the execution of the mindless violence, bad acting, and dark humor in VERSUS is totally TWO THUMBS UP! The only thing that annoyed me was the Green-suit man, but it seems so many people love him. P.S. don't buy any "all-region" (probably bootlegged) DVDs...I ended up buying the real thing just to get the DTS track which is great.
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Summary: My reflexes are 500 times faster then Mike Tyson's
Review: "There are 666 portals that connect this world to the other side. These are concealed from all human beings. Somewhere in Japan exists the 444th portal.... The forest of resurrection."
So one day I am in Suncoast, picking up some old martial arts films, and I ask the guy working at the counter what he thought of "Princess Blade?" He said it was ok; it is worth watching but not owning, nothing special. Then he asks me if I have seen "Versus?" I told him no, but I read about it, and it received mixed reviews. He runs over, pulls it off the shelf, and tells me it is a must own, and his favorite all time martial arts movie. I look at the price ($30), and told him I'll think about it.
So I rented this marvel, known as Versus, who some may think is the greatest martial arts movie of all time. Well, just in calling this movie a martial arts film is placing it in the wrong genre. If The Returner (which is a far superior film) is not a martial film, this is not a martial arts film, it is an ACTION film. There is about as much martial arts in this movie as an Schwarzenegger film.
In addition, the dialogue, I did not expect much going into the movie, was amongst the worst ever placed into a movie. Listen to these lines:
"I was born in Yellow Stone National Park in Canada, I'm a natural born hunter."
"You're a fighter, I can smell it."
"I'll show you a whole other world past death."
"My reflexes are 500 times faster then Mike Tyson's."
Honestly, if you can sit through this whole movie, as I did, you have a stronger stomach then most. I had to give this movie every chance to be good, but it wasn't. If Versus was worth watching, I was going to give Alive, Azumi, and Versus 2 a chance (all directed by Kitamura). However, I will not go through the pain of viewing any of those movies any time soon, thanks.
Grade: F
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Summary: A great non-stop action movie!
Review: If you like Troma movies, or just action movies in general, you will especially like Versus. Although not much plot present, this is definitely a movie to watch with your friends. You just can't beat a movie that has zombie action, sword action, gun action, and just about every other type of action out there. Oh yeah! I forgot to tell you the plot! Well anyway, the plot of the movie goes like this. It takes place in Japan, in the Forests of Resurrection. Two prisoners escape from a prison nearby, a group of people come to the place where there are supposed to rendevous. Things turn ugly, and the next hour and a half is a huge brawl. This is not a movie that you will forget anytime soon, I guarantee it.
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Summary: God bless the freaky yakuza in the green shirt!
Review: Some people are insane! I mean, what were you expecting? The English Patient? I for one love a good gorefest and awesome if its done out of Hollywood. The plot had holes, I guess, I can't really think of anything that really had me come out of the movie. If you rented or bought this and thought, "Hey, that couldn't have happened, like, oh my Gawd how fake!" Why would you watch a zombie/sci-fi movie to begin with? You did read the synopses right? The acting was good, watch the original undubbed one please before you blast the flick! The characters were priceless, I loved the "Charlie's Angels"-esque stances the yakuza guys made! Tre cool. I loved the fighting as well, every ten minutes or so someone was getting the crap beat out of them. It was also very refreshing to not see so much wire-flying, the one part I can recall that did sort of do that was shot tightly so it didn't seem so exaggerated. I'm a chick and I LOVED how Prisonor KSC2-303 kept hitting the annoying chick over the head, classic! No out of nowhere love scenes here my good people! The "villian" was also top-notch. I thought the casting was great. Tak Sakaguchi, wow, baby don't be so mean! :P I can't wait to see him in more things or in the sequal. Please don't watch this if you're cynical or hard to please. ITS A ZOMBIE/GORE/SCI-FI INDIE FILM! Yeah just don't buy it, let someone else who appreciates such fineness get a copy.
*By the by, this review is based on "The Ultimate Versus" edition.
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Summary: Freaking Gross!
Review: I could have easily given this film one star if it weren't for the fact it's so much fun to laugh at...not with.
Two escape convicts meet up with some yakuza in the Forest of Resurrection and before you can say "What the Hell?" about 50 zombies with guns (!) attack. But that ain't the big problem, the big problem is the super powered samurai demon creature that transforms all of the yakuza into possessed martial art experts who are out to kill Prisoner KSC2-303. Luckily for him not only does he act like Kevin Dillon from THE BLOB he also has super powers and an endless supply of bullets.
Everything from the acting to the action is way, way, way over the top. It makes BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA look tame by comparison. Everyone is capable of flying through the air, one guy who fights like a rabid beaver turns into a drill bit and tunnels under our hero and then shoots straight up 15 feet into the air, lots of holes get punched through heads and torsos. It's insanity. It's like THE STORY OF RIKI-OH meets ERNEST GOES TO CAMP.
I wanta tell you not to watch it, but at the same time I can't stop giggling. So if you insist on watching this, at least have the good sense to invite some of your drunken friends over to help you.
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Summary: Zombies, Samurais, guns, and lots and lot of action
Review: Versus is a a mega cool film. It has got to be one of the coolest films I've ever seen. The story is simple. A prisoner escapes with his inmate partner and end up in a mysterious forest were the dead come back to life, and the ones who get killed turn into the undead seconds later. To make things worse he is being pursued by Yakuzas for some reason(which I won't spoil)and the prisoner meets an enemy more tougher and more powerfull then him. Acctually he is so powerfull, so invincible that it would take a whole army to take it down. Soon the games begin and the tables turn as the story of Versus is told...
There is more to it but I'm to lazy to type it out. Overall after viewing this film I must say this is a very cool film. It has great action, some really memerable scenes. The film also features some really cool things like zombies that are capable of holding guns and shooting them(though so slow they eventually get shot before shooting it)and there is alot of funny, cheesy dialoug. The violence isn't as bad as most people say but I will admit the Not Rated version of this film can get pretty bloody and violent.
The film features alot of awesome gun action and lots of swordplay. This is one of those rare films that really keep me entertained and this one really kept me entertained! The film may seem a bit cheesy and dumb, especially how it looks like it only took these guys two days to make this film but it is still highly enjoyable and is one of my favorite films. The film as I have said before has some really cheesy dialoug and some really cheesy action sequences. Some parts look like a parody to the matrix if you ask me.
Versus is 119 minutes thrill ride for people who want lots and lots of great action and a semi-good storyline(by the way this does have a plot to the people who say it doesn't)and great violent sequences. It has great zombies gun action, really awesome characters, not much character development but still worthy of a film and purchase(I baught the special edition of this)and has a great twist at the very end of the film(though a bit predictable)and shows what the meaning of good and evil/reincarnation is....Overall I give this awesome film a
4.5 out of 5 stars,
by the way I reviewed it based on the movie NOT THE DVD EXTRAS and overall DVD itself...Highly enjoyable film..worth a watch..
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Summary: Ultra Cool
Review: Simply put, this movie is cool. It has almost the perfect blend, action, visuals, complexity and we can't leave out humor.
The humor is not overdone in this movie at all, it lends a nice break to the edginess, some things are funny enough to be humorous but not overly so to be comedic. I won't spoil this for anyone but it is a movie that makes you wonder who's who and what's what...the ultimate example of yin and yang, opposing forces and not the more simplistic and easy good and evil.
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Summary: A Roller Coaster Ride of a Film--Big on Fun, Short on Sense
Review: It's over the top. It's somewhat gory. It's fantastic. A good, old-fashioned zombie film. It's true that the main group of zombies have little to do with the convoluted plot. There's no good reason for them, other than to show that there are zombies. But that's reason enough, in a zombie film. And these zombies are tool users. Not limited to shambling around, they. They can use swords and guns and generally just make a huge mess. What more do you want?
If you answer that question "A satisfying plot," you probably ought to look elsewhere. If you just want to have fun, though, this could well be the zombie movie for you.
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