A Flood Of Red

Rating: Null/10 (12 December 2007)

I really liked it, the first ten minutes as with most Kurosawa films was pretty boring but, it really picked up after that. Maybe its because I never read King Lear, and so the story was fresh to me, but I found the plot the dialoge to have some Shakespearean ideas and monologues, and still managed to preserve the action of the story itself. It was a much better adaptation than "Thrown Of Blood", which aside from the death scene at the end, was pretty dull and unexciting. I liked the montage sequence during the siege the most especially when the music cuts out, and the war sounds shock the movie back to action. "Chaos", indeed, but it is the classic chaos which we are familiar with, the story since it is derivative, can be repetitive at times, however the sheer visual depth and eye for composition present in every frame makes this a more than worthy viewing experience for anyone.