RE:BORN

If you like knife-fights, this has them. Lots of them.

Re.Born (2016) - ❤x6

I have no idea what this was about - it was in Japanese without subtitles. It had some pretty good fight scenes and a guy who could dodge bullets (obviously not possible but still kinda cool).

How I rate:
1-3 ❤ = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 ❤ = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 ❤ = I expect you will like this too
9-10 ❤ = movies and TV shows I really love!

It honestly felt like a complete waste of time.

For a moment I thought that this movie might have been directed by Steven Seagal, even though I've seen more interesting movies from Seagal.

The fight scenes are repetitive beyond belief, there are only a couple or so that are interesting. Most of them are hand-to-hand combat using knives where the main character's success is 100%, if you've seen one then you've seen them all. He kills upwards of 50 trained soldiers without a single scratch.

The "hero" has this weird habit of moving his shoulders from side to side when confronting his enemies, almost like some aboriginal dance ritual - completely pointless.

Martial arts are barely there, that is if you can call a couple of kicks "martial arts".

Sometimes he will be facing 10 soldiers while holding a knife and nobody shoots him even though they have their guns directly pointed at him. That's another annoying thing about this movie, the guy dodges bullets, but not in a _Matrix-like_ sense, more like he knows when they will be fired and in which direction.

The story is not compelling, mainly because there doesn't seem to be any plot leading 90% of the movie.

The characters are as shallow as it gets.

I mean, for a b-movie that was pretty ok. Could've done with a bit more Mariko Shinoda screentime tho. :3