Review: as sharp as a samurai sword 
Sentiment: positive

Review: a genuine love story , 
Sentiment: positive

Review: getting in its own way to be anything but frustrating , boring , and forgettable 
Sentiment: negative

Review: writer/director walter hill is in his hypermasculine element here , once again able to inject some real vitality and even art into a pulpy concept that , in many other hands would be completely forgettable . 
Sentiment: positive


Review: a staggeringly compelling character , a young man whose sharp intellect is at the very root of his contradictory , self-hating , self-destructive ways