For someone who loves wild visuals, I should have loved this film, but I found it too far out and simply very unappealing.
Yes, it's visually stunning but the story is disjointed. to say the least. If a viewer - and I am not alone in this opinion - is almost totally lost as to what's going on for almost the entire film, you don't care after awhile. And when you don't care what's going on, you lose interest no matter how good the visuals are. At least, that's how I found this movie. Now I am judging this on the VHS version. Perhaps the DVD makes this so stunning that I wouldn't care about the story, just being entertained by the visuals....but I haven't seen it on disc yet so I don't have an answer to that. I do remember the characters being too grungy and no one being particularly likable.
The dubbing in here also was horrible. Hopefully, the DVD offers subtitles, instead. One reviewer here said to give this movie a second chance, and perhaps that's the answer. If I do, and like the film, I'll delete this review.
Yes, it's visually stunning but the story is disjointed. to say the least. If a viewer - and I am not alone in this opinion - is almost totally lost as to what's going on for almost the entire film, you don't care after awhile. And when you don't care what's going on, you lose interest no matter how good the visuals are. At least, that's how I found this movie. Now I am judging this on the VHS version. Perhaps the DVD makes this so stunning that I wouldn't care about the story, just being entertained by the visuals....but I haven't seen it on disc yet so I don't have an answer to that. I do remember the characters being too grungy and no one being particularly likable.
The dubbing in here also was horrible. Hopefully, the DVD offers subtitles, instead. One reviewer here said to give this movie a second chance, and perhaps that's the answer. If I do, and like the film, I'll delete this review.