Returner (2003)
I guess this isn't exactly bad, but it's not really worth watching either -- as far as sci-fi time-travel flicks go, we've all seen better (and apparently so has director Takashi Yamazaki, judging from the number of sources from which his film steals). It's also about as authentically Eastern as chop suey, which makes the fact that I saw it dubbed seem perversely appropriate; in this context, naming two bad guys Kurosawa and Mizoguchi seems less a homage and more a sadistic reminder that you could be watching quality cinema instead of this mindless time-waster. If this was a CD, The Onion would dub it "inessential".
Grade: C
I guess this isn't exactly bad, but it's not really worth watching either -- as far as sci-fi time-travel flicks go, we've all seen better (and apparently so has director Takashi Yamazaki, judging from the number of sources from which his film steals). It's also about as authentically Eastern as chop suey, which makes the fact that I saw it dubbed seem perversely appropriate; in this context, naming two bad guys Kurosawa and Mizoguchi seems less a homage and more a sadistic reminder that you could be watching quality cinema instead of this mindless time-waster. If this was a CD, The Onion would dub it "inessential".
Grade: C
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