Half a century ago a samurai summoned a demon from the underworld called Kodeni, to help win a battle which he and his men couldn't win. After the battle had finished the samurai tired to vanquish him back, but he couldn't and now his family was cursed with his daughter giving berth to demon so he could live among mankind. And today Kodeni heads an underground crime syndicate in Tokyo. Although, his getting weak and needs to be reborn again and so he chooses a police detective's daughter, who's been after him. But his daughter is in France studying fashion at university, so he takes the next plane to finish the job, even if that means killing his daughter to stop Kodeni being reborn. But he doesn't count on some of her French friends getting in the way.
It's all about the gloss and advertisement. What do I mean? One you could think you're watching one gigantic video clip with loud pretentious music. And secondly was this an advertising campaign for Sony? The video game idea and sequences involving it were just worked in a rather trashy way. Although what really surprised was when I came on here I was expecting the film to be averaging at least over 5, but I was stunned by the user rating average 3.4! *Hmm* I didn't think it was that bad, even though I'll only rate it a 4.
Back to the main point, what the film tries for is cross-culture mix, by adding a modern-day touch with the old traditions of martial arts. And hey some sequences are staged remarkably well. The film starts out perfectly enough, this is when most of the action takes place in Japan. Although, when the film headed to France that's when it disappoints. What it has going for it was that the premise is rapidly paced and has a fierce edge that knocks you about. Though, like most of the films of this type the problem was that action got hugely repetitive (after the airport bathroom scene), it thinks its hip by focusing a lot on its slickly done visuals, but it made it even more shallow and the plot starts out dazzling enough, but soon goes by the numbers with a lot of irrelevant happenings and juvenile humour. The humour just wasn't funny, but it was funny for all the wrong reasons. The big cross has to go to the very annoying friend/sidekick who was a real pain to listen to. You'll be hoping for his head to be on the chopping block, I guarantee! The cast's performances were nothing to write home about it, as they were pretty stiff in there depiction as conventional characters. You got the hero, woman in distress, irritating sidekick, father who knows best, henchman and their master. Surely even if you haven't seen it, by that you know how it would end! Incorporating the game into the live frenetic climax was just laughable!
Overall, it's a silly plot that thinks its uniquely clever and original. But this heavy handed light show is only saved by some of the eye catching action sequences, while everything else is a muddle or better put lousy.
It's all about the gloss and advertisement. What do I mean? One you could think you're watching one gigantic video clip with loud pretentious music. And secondly was this an advertising campaign for Sony? The video game idea and sequences involving it were just worked in a rather trashy way. Although what really surprised was when I came on here I was expecting the film to be averaging at least over 5, but I was stunned by the user rating average 3.4! *Hmm* I didn't think it was that bad, even though I'll only rate it a 4.
Back to the main point, what the film tries for is cross-culture mix, by adding a modern-day touch with the old traditions of martial arts. And hey some sequences are staged remarkably well. The film starts out perfectly enough, this is when most of the action takes place in Japan. Although, when the film headed to France that's when it disappoints. What it has going for it was that the premise is rapidly paced and has a fierce edge that knocks you about. Though, like most of the films of this type the problem was that action got hugely repetitive (after the airport bathroom scene), it thinks its hip by focusing a lot on its slickly done visuals, but it made it even more shallow and the plot starts out dazzling enough, but soon goes by the numbers with a lot of irrelevant happenings and juvenile humour. The humour just wasn't funny, but it was funny for all the wrong reasons. The big cross has to go to the very annoying friend/sidekick who was a real pain to listen to. You'll be hoping for his head to be on the chopping block, I guarantee! The cast's performances were nothing to write home about it, as they were pretty stiff in there depiction as conventional characters. You got the hero, woman in distress, irritating sidekick, father who knows best, henchman and their master. Surely even if you haven't seen it, by that you know how it would end! Incorporating the game into the live frenetic climax was just laughable!
Overall, it's a silly plot that thinks its uniquely clever and original. But this heavy handed light show is only saved by some of the eye catching action sequences, while everything else is a muddle or better put lousy.