Another empty Weinstein marketing coup, a truly depressing movie

Rating: Null/10 (26 August 2005)

Why is everyone ecstatic about this B karate/gore movie? I have tried to watch it several times and I have never been able to watch more than 20 minutes of it each time. No dialogs, a cigarette thin plot, gratuitous B violence, pompous artsy fartsy camera angles completely meaningless... Well, they actually serve a purpose for the director who keeps reminding the audience: "look guys where I put the camera, I'm a genius, see, admire me!". As a matter of fact if it wasn't for the weird camera angles this would be a pretty plain bad film instead of a pompous bad film. Filming dialog from the top of a tree or from underneath the soles of the actors' shoes is nothing to get excited about. This is not what cinema is about. This is advertising making. This is a film for brainwashed TV addicts who confuse ad making and film making. A very depressing film experience, I refuse to endorse just because so many ignorants got thrilled by it, just because they have never seen anything worthy before. Another pathetic Miramax contribution to the history of cinema. The Weinstein Brothers are the kings of marketing. Thank God history won't remember the Weinstein Brothers.