Rating: 
Summary: This IS REALLY GAY!!
Review: This movie is perfect for all you bisexual guys out there. If you get turned on by homerotic films, this is for you. But me, like most people am not bisexual. I do not recomend this to most people. I bought this crap in chinatown, thinking WOW! A Beat Takeshi movie $5. I am a fan so I had to buy it. Little did I know it turned out to be a little bit too far out for me. My advice don't get it. I have since, given this movie to a bisexual guy next door. Instead get Violent Cop or Fireworks.
Rating: 
Summary: Even a talented director has flaws
Review: When I first saw this movie on TV - and the movie seemed to be heavily cut - I only thougth that Takashi Ishii is really a director with talent and the ability to create something special and unique.
The fighting scences looked sometimes very improvised, but were in fact strongly choreographed and filmed in a stylish way that gave you an intense feeling while watching them.
But there were also scences where I unfortunately didn't get the point. For example: The ex-cop is sitting in a restaurant, his wife and daughter are at the restroom, so he is waiting. Then a cut and suddenly everybody in the restaurant has disappeard - no guests can be seen anymore, no waiters and so on. The wife and the daughter come back and the action begins... and where is the rest? That was definitely a directional flaw.
2. When the man with the glasses comes home he sees his daughter - all fine. He goes in the room of his son, but he can't even see, that his son is lying dead in the bed. His wife has obviously left him, so he is phoning a prostitute and 2 secs later the action begins again. Exscuse me, but that's terribly directed.
3. The two desperates are attacked by the two hitmen, escaping in a restroom, waiting there behind a door made of wood. The hitmen fire through the door, they scream and seconds later, the hitmen are away. That's sheer nonsense in my opinion...
The characters seem to be underdeveloped. What's up with their background story? Nothing can be found... Especially the gigolo. I still don't know what's up with that person.First and last an interesting movie with some flaws but a great atmosphere, never before seen acts of violence and a very bizarre
ending.
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