Fast Eddie

Weird, surreal, funny and at the same time creepy. Some may find it boring, but Talking Head provides lots of "brain food" about motion pictures in general, while retaining a surreal haze around itself.

Anime - and Oshii - fans will find lots of sequences that has been reused in later productions, like Avalon. And after watching this, some Hideaki Anno's Evangelion scenes suddenly doesn't seem that groundbreaking anymore.

If you are an anime fan and can tolerate a lot of weirdness, it's definitely a must. Just don't expect anything to make *real* sense.

OK, so Van Damme movies are cheesy. And yes, he is worst an actor as you can imagine. And yes, Joey Tribbiani looked more real as a corpse than Jean-Claude as an actor in that Friends episode. Still, JCVD's skill is as a fighter. And this, of all movies, is what fighting is all about. You fight? Then you will recognise your martial art - or style, for those practicing thai boxing, or drunken boxing, or street-fighting - you get the idea. Never has a fight out of kung-fu has been so good represented. 90 minutes of fighting. If you're looking for something else, stay real far. Else, this is The Movie.

As much as I wanted to like this movie (Stefania Rocca is one of my favorite actresses) I could not get "complete satisfaction". The plot is well exploited, and not as foreseeable as other, similar, movies - the twist at the end, alas, is foreseeable.

The actors' performance is not bad at all, unfortunately the story is not completely up to the par. Not bad, but could be much better.