Product: Brother [VHS]
Rating: 5.0
Very Real and Good
I rented this movie not really expecting much of it. When I started to watch it I found the flow of the movie very appealing to me. It is about an exiled Yakuza that goes to america to live with his brother that he sent to college only to find out that his brother is a street thug drug pusher. The movie then follows along how the exiled Yakuza moves his useless brother and worthless friends up in the ranks of the underworld Yakuza style and their eventual fall in a very realistic way. People are saying that the movie is boring but i think they were expecting the wrong things from it. This movie is not really an action movie anyway. It is very real in the sense of the route some people take and the way they end up because of it. I would say rent it and not buy it although it is a very good movie see it for yourself then decide. Yes the movie is not totally action packed and yes it moves along a slower pace but that realism is actually enjoyable to me rather than seeing constant gun battles for no reason or very stupid fight scenes like the crazy 88's in Kill Bill as another reviewer mentioned.