Reviews

A movie that is supposed to be 100% gore, 100% bloody and 100% extreme(as the Japan Shock DVD cover modestly states), is a movie I gotta see. I love gore movies, and with all the praise Naked Blood had been getting, well, I just had to check it out. Pity to say, I was disappointed.

Hisayasu Sato is, of course, one of the biggest names in extreme Japanese cinema, responsible for movies such as Lolita: Vibrator Torture and Rape: For Real. Naked Blood is a step away from these mainly sex-driven movies, and even tries for some sort of plot. Kid scientist invents new painkiller, tests it on three girls who then start to experience pain as pleasure. With all the horrible results you can imagine.

Now, the gore in the movie is definitely gory, although it's all very bearable. But where does this movie go wrong then? Imo, its problem lies in the fact that it's overly pretentious. A plot is one thing, but a Freudian hyper-bizarre moronic plot is another. The worst thing about the whole story though, is how generic it is - in all its bizarreness, it's never complex. Basically everything is predictable and, to be honest, boring. This movie has a runtime of 76 minutes, but it isn't even able to stay interesting.

In the end, the overall feeling you get from this movie is a 'wtf' one. Whether that's because of the fact that you couldn't stand the gore, found the story immensely complicated, or, like me, found it a moderately enjoyable waste of a good 76 minutes, I don't know, but wtf it shall be.

Leaves me to say that the old Super8 film Eiji's mother is watching is strangely intriguing, and possibly the highlight of this movie. Its faded colors and bright tone, combined with a mysterious 'plot', makes for a seriously interesting movie-in-a-movie. At this points, Hisayasu Sato displays a hidden genius. However, the rest of Naked Blood still is nothing but 100% mediocre.

To be honest, I'd expected this be some stupid flick. A bunch of my friends had seen The Matrix and most of them didn't really like it. I thought they'd be right, since most of the time they have the same taste as me (or they eventually will get the same taste as me, as for Star Wars, which they didn't really like at all at first, but now they do ^_^) so I thought this movie would be dull and boring.

I was positively surprised. The story is actually really good, and so is the acting. I'm not a fan of Keanu Reeves, but he was great as Neo. Same for Carrie-Anne Moss and Laurence Fishburne. The much-talked-about special effects are really great as well.

There were some flaws though, in my humble opinion. Much of the dialogues were just too cliché, as were some of the characters (Cypher, Tank). Sometimes the movie got a little bit dull (at about half of the movie) but towards the ending it got better again. Still, as I said, not bad at all.

8/10

This movie is really great! A wonderful piece of work! The acting and the story are really good, plus it's from Japan and since I like everything from J-Pop to Japanimation this movie really did it for me. What makes this movie topnotch is of course Ayumi Hamasaki, she's so cute!

10/10, period.

Well, what can you say. It's a movie with Ayumi Hamasaki in it ^_^. She's currently most famous for her fabulous music, which I can advise to you all. Ayumi is hot, so that makes this movie worth watching.

Simply a 10/10

This movie is one of the funniest ever, period. What can you say? The role of Ford Fairlane really suits the Dice. Great dialogues, great story, great movie. Un-believable! I have seen this movie numerous times and it's still rocks. This is funnier than every other comedy out there, be it American Pie #1324 or clone-how-many of Monty Python. Great.

I had seen Akira some years ago already (when I was twelve years old or something) but I couldn't quite remember the storyline and what happened in general. The only thing I remembered was the big teddy bear, but that was all. Just recently I bought Akira on DVD so I finally watched it again, after all these years.

I was stunned. The drawings were unbelievably great, the action wonderful and the storyline... hmmm... complicated, so I watched it again the same evening ^_^. I won't explain the storyline here but I can tell you it's great, quite complex and really intriguing. Another great element; the characters, Tetsuo and Kaneda most notably, really develop throughout the movie and what happens to them really affects and changes them.

What can I say more? This is probably one of the, maybe even thé greatest anime movie ever. My advise is to watch it as soon you can. Warning: not for those who are faint of heart.

Ringu scared the hell out of me. I watched it all alone lights out in the middle of the night which I always do when watching a horror movie but not one movie has ever scared the sh*t out of me more than Ringu. Sadako is the scariest moviemonster ever (if you haven't seen Ringu 0 yet), the story is great and the acting's wonderful. If you want a good scare I advise you to watch this one.

Also, the cursed video in the Japanese version is much scarier than the one in the remake version. Watch it.