An action movie with no action, a film with gangsters but only half a gang, an interesting concept drowned in bog-standard dialogue, interesting (but cheap) sets marred by hideous film quality and lighting.
The foundations of the movie are solid, but it needed more prouction cash and some better dialogue (some of the bit-parts deliver their lines in a way which makes you cringe) in order to really pull it above the mire.
As it stands, it isn't a terrible movie, but it has nothing which puts it ahead of the thousands of other 'watch em once' films in the action/horrorish genres (and looks considerably shoddier than most). Some changes for the better would have perhaps made this into a cult movie like Crying Freeman, but that hasn't and won't happen.
The foundations of the movie are solid, but it needed more prouction cash and some better dialogue (some of the bit-parts deliver their lines in a way which makes you cringe) in order to really pull it above the mire.
As it stands, it isn't a terrible movie, but it has nothing which puts it ahead of the thousands of other 'watch em once' films in the action/horrorish genres (and looks considerably shoddier than most). Some changes for the better would have perhaps made this into a cult movie like Crying Freeman, but that hasn't and won't happen.