Ichi the Killer
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- -scarabin-0
i reviewed this on greencine a few years ago:
"this film is great if you want to witness a bunch of comic-book character wannabes voiced over with some horrible british cockney voice-acting, prance around in an EXTREMELY slow plot with some beef organs and fake blood just so it will appeal to fourteen-year olds.
if you can get past the bad british voice-overs, which i eventually did, you're still faced with the fact that all the rest of the sound also sucks. the sound effects are all clips from the same stock cd all those crappy sitcoms and cartoons use. for instance, there's a scene in which a guy bumps a table a little bit, and you hear that sound where someone throws a bowling ball into a closet filled with tin cans that you hear in cartoons all the time. he does it again a few minutes later, and you hear THE EXACT SAME CLIP.
the film's description boasts, "see a severed face slide down a wall into a puddle of blood" or whatever, like it's a huge asset to the film or something. in reality it's a painfully obvious sculpt that will make you groan with it's cheesiness.
there are a couple gems worth seeing for their originality, but overall the film just tries too hard.
see it just to round out your movie experiences, but don't expect anything too great."