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I was given the chance here in 2020 to sit down and watch the 2012 Japanese movie "Black Dawn" (aka "Gaiji keisatsu: Sono otoko ni damasareruna"). Granted, I had not even heard about this movie prior to sitting down and watching it, but it being a Japanese movie is actually sufficient enough grounds to get my attention.

I managed to endure about 60 minutes of the 128 minute playtime that "Black Dawn" ran for. Then I had enough. I just couldn't take anymore of the boredom that director Kentaro Horikirizono was dishing out at me on the screen.

The storyline was flaccid and boring. So very, very boring. In the 60 minutes that I managed to suffer through, very little of any interest had transpired, and I can't honestly say that the characters in the movie were characters that had grown on me. Actually, I was rather detached from everything in the movie. And believe you me, I honestly tried to give this movie a fair chance.

The acting in the movie was adequate, just a shame that the actors and actresses were fighting an already lost uphill battle with a script and storyline that had the appeal of drying paint, and characters that were just generic and as bland as they could possibly get.

It seemed that director Kentaro Horikirizono had set out to accomplish a lot with a somewhat broad-spanning story arch, but it just came off as being cluttered and having no particular red thread throughout the movie.

My rating of "Black Dawn" is a mere three out of ten stars. Not a movie that appealed to me in anyway, nor was it a movie that offered any real or worthwhile entertainment. This was by no means a bright, shining star in the history of Japanese cinema.