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Directed by: Ryuhei Kitamura Starring: Yumiko Shaku Just watched this. Pretty drat good. A bit of hackneyed cliche here and there, what with the typical LOVE FOR MY WIFE MAKES ME DO EVIL THINGS LIKE SUMMON THE DEVIL villain. Also, 99 percent of all girl/girl sword duels are fakey and weak. Why? Strangely, the most convincing fighter was Yumiko, a MODEL. Apparently she got some kendo practice in between photo shoots. Anyway, good movie, rolls along at a good pace. Dips just enough into the overdone japanese horrorthriller to be interesting, but not so much that it forgets the characters and point. Also, sorry, but it needed less comic relief fat photo guy... At least all the girls are fairly attractive. Especially evil wraith girl, for some reason. Evil adds hot +10. Not so much for the priestess girl, she looked constantly stoned... :[ RATING: 5 PROS: action, girl/girl swordfights, a coherent plot. CONS: girls cant fake-fight, somewhat cliche here and there ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398563/ EDIT: I think the posters below totally missed the point of enjoying this as cheesy stupid fun. Maybe I was just in a goofy mood... :\ milkhorse fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Aug 24, 2004 |
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Jun 11, 2004 00:56
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It's rather unfortunate that Ryuhei Kitamura's movies seem trapped on a gradual decline in quality (as illustrated by the stellar Versus, followed by the decent Azumi and now, the mediocre Sky High). The fights as mentioned above were poorly choreographed, shot and performed, and many of the characters were simple charicatures that barely elicited any sympathy from me (the female doctor in particular was someone I found annoying). The pacing was off, the editing pedestrian and the energy traditionally found in Kitamura's films was absent here. The only part I really enjoyed was the final reunion between Kanzaki and Mina, which for some reason managed to tug at the heart strings. Of course, that's ruined by the ending that tries a bit too desperately to end the film with some style. 2.5/5
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Aug 13, 2004 10:18
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Everything about this film screamed direct-to-video garbage to me. The fights(the villian and the final guardian(name eludes me) seem to be the only people in the film that seem to have the capability of wielding a sword.) The CGI is laughably bad...the plot extroadinarily cliched...hoakey dialogue is in abundance here...the movie is simply quite unexciting. Definitely the worst Kitumara movie I've seen thus far. 1.5/5 hellocruelworld fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Aug 15, 2004 |
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Aug 13, 2004 17:11
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It was good for some pointless fun, all and all it's a lot better then Alive but nowhere near as good as Versus and Azumi. Overall the movie was lacking a good plot, but had a couple of cool fights. Voted a mediocre 2.5
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