Full Metal Yakuza (1997)
This early Takashi Miike film is probably my least favorite of his that I've yet seen -- its occasional Miike-style flashes of whacked brilliance and hyper-inventive violence are subsumed by seriously cheap production values and a blah RoboCop-ripoff plot that forgets where it's going after an hour and just kinda sits around doodling in the sand until it's time to wrap things up by killing everyone. Has its moments, as does everything from its director, but no thanks anyway.
Grade: C
This early Takashi Miike film is probably my least favorite of his that I've yet seen -- its occasional Miike-style flashes of whacked brilliance and hyper-inventive violence are subsumed by seriously cheap production values and a blah RoboCop-ripoff plot that forgets where it's going after an hour and just kinda sits around doodling in the sand until it's time to wrap things up by killing everyone. Has its moments, as does everything from its director, but no thanks anyway.
Grade: C
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