Homoginised Violence Gone Awry

Rating: Null/10 (26 October 2003)

This movie doesn't have much of a plot, or depth of character for that matter. Its not a story that will inspire a lot conversation.
Which left me concentrating on how it was put together.
I had trouble trying to make sense of it (and maybe your not meant to?) First I thought it was some kind of West meets East thing, then we had the Japanese Anime thing, and at other times it felt like a (wannabe) splatter movie (and a bad one at that too).
In the end I decided it was a "101 ways to portray the same violent scene of revengeful woman kills assassin" movie, and this movie displays a lot of innovation in achieving that goal. Where it falls over though is that the violence is, as my summary suggests, so watered down that if there wasn't so much of it, this movie would have got a PG rating.
Overall I consider it to be an ok movie, but would have preferred a better story cause thats what I go to see movies for. Not for how great the director was in putting it all together.