Liked the move, but how do you recommend it to anyone???

Rating: 8/10 (22 April 2005)

The move was intense, hard and in your face. The pace was odd for the first third of the movie. I felt like it was a constant inhale with no time to exhale. It almost felt like the movie was that fat kid in school that beat you up by sitting on your chest until recess ended.
The performances were great. The films layout and choreography were so skillfully put together that you could print out each frame and hang it as a work of art.
The sound effects were over done and the violence was so over the top, I wondered how they didn't pick a new letter to rate this movie with. "R" just didn't seem like a strong enough warning.
I don't know how I could ever recommend this movie to anyone. Even though I liked it, I would have to give such strong disclaimers that my recommendation would sound like a warning. "Well grandma, if you can sit through all the cannibalism, child molestation, and decapitation scenes, I think you will find the film has a lot of strong points."
I took my wife to go see it and sat in fear the whole time that she was going to drag me out and into the Nicole Kidman movie next door. Lucky for me, she is an Xmen fan and was able to recognize the art and originality. But I probably wouldn't have taken her if I would have watched it first. Not exactly a "get her in the mood" kind of picture show.