Whereas the 1972 "Prisoner 701: Scorpion" movie was watchable and entertaining, this 1973 sequel was utter rubbish and quite a waste of time. I managed to endure 43 minutes of the movie, then I just quit. Nothing in the movie appealed to me.
The storyline was laughable and had nothing worth of any interest to offer. It was so mundane and pointless that I very quickly lost interest in it. It is slow paced and very little of any interest happens as the movie trots on in a grotesquely slow pace. But I stuck with it, deciding to give the movie a chance beyond the 15 minutes or so where I first started to seriously lose interest. I managed to stick with it for 43 prolonged and painful minutes.
Sure, it was nice that Meiko Kaji returned to the role of Nami Matsushima, but she had nothing, seriously nothing, to work with here in terms of script, plot or character development.
The entire movie seemed like a jumble of random scenes filmed by random directors, then handed over to Shun'ya Itô to make a movie out of all the random scenes.
I wasn't even entertained for a minute throughout the course of the ordeal that is "Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable" (aka "Joshuu sasori: Kemono-beya") and that has left me with absolutely no interest in returning to finish the movie.
The storyline was laughable and had nothing worth of any interest to offer. It was so mundane and pointless that I very quickly lost interest in it. It is slow paced and very little of any interest happens as the movie trots on in a grotesquely slow pace. But I stuck with it, deciding to give the movie a chance beyond the 15 minutes or so where I first started to seriously lose interest. I managed to stick with it for 43 prolonged and painful minutes.
Sure, it was nice that Meiko Kaji returned to the role of Nami Matsushima, but she had nothing, seriously nothing, to work with here in terms of script, plot or character development.
The entire movie seemed like a jumble of random scenes filmed by random directors, then handed over to Shun'ya Itô to make a movie out of all the random scenes.
I wasn't even entertained for a minute throughout the course of the ordeal that is "Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable" (aka "Joshuu sasori: Kemono-beya") and that has left me with absolutely no interest in returning to finish the movie.