inkslug
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No one could do this movie justice in a review- you just have to watch it. However, for those wanting bitesize details of what it's about they can read the next paragraph and skip the rest.
---The story follows a number of characters over two days as they go about their lives, lives which are caught on CCTV. They include a student and a teacher, two killers on the run, a store clerk and his mate, a womanising department store employee and a bullied insurance clerk. There's sex, lies, adultery, violence, abduction and death. By the end of the movie the paths of most of these often unrelated characters have crossed in the 3 main locations- a mall, a school, and a convenience store.---
After reading the other reviews I was still very much in the dark about this movie. At the time of writing this review some 45 people had given it zero while 36 gave it ten. The zero count was high enough not to be ignored whilst the ten count was low enough to be fake ratings by people involved with the movie, so I was a bit iffy about it. However it was the passion of the other reviewers that convinced me to give it a go.
After watching Look I can only assume that those giving it zero must be the type of moviegoers who lap up the shallow dross that Hollywood more often than not peddles out to the sleeping herds. So if you are one of those brain-dead masses then you probably won't think much of this movie.
BUT if you are more discerning, enjoy thought provoking material and sometimes despair at the apparent crumbling of western societal values you should find this to be as stunning, riveting and sickly voyeuristic as I did.
For me this film is a modern classic. It's a winding, weaving, surprising, intersecting story of vice, and of people sadly lacking in moral fibre. It lays bare the darkness that is within all of us. Because we view the film entirely through CCTV, it's unbiased, free of moral judgements and shows only pure truth.
Overall? A Stunning tour de force spewing forth the moral decay that is eating away at western civilisation.
---The story follows a number of characters over two days as they go about their lives, lives which are caught on CCTV. They include a student and a teacher, two killers on the run, a store clerk and his mate, a womanising department store employee and a bullied insurance clerk. There's sex, lies, adultery, violence, abduction and death. By the end of the movie the paths of most of these often unrelated characters have crossed in the 3 main locations- a mall, a school, and a convenience store.---
After reading the other reviews I was still very much in the dark about this movie. At the time of writing this review some 45 people had given it zero while 36 gave it ten. The zero count was high enough not to be ignored whilst the ten count was low enough to be fake ratings by people involved with the movie, so I was a bit iffy about it. However it was the passion of the other reviewers that convinced me to give it a go.
After watching Look I can only assume that those giving it zero must be the type of moviegoers who lap up the shallow dross that Hollywood more often than not peddles out to the sleeping herds. So if you are one of those brain-dead masses then you probably won't think much of this movie.
BUT if you are more discerning, enjoy thought provoking material and sometimes despair at the apparent crumbling of western societal values you should find this to be as stunning, riveting and sickly voyeuristic as I did.
For me this film is a modern classic. It's a winding, weaving, surprising, intersecting story of vice, and of people sadly lacking in moral fibre. It lays bare the darkness that is within all of us. Because we view the film entirely through CCTV, it's unbiased, free of moral judgements and shows only pure truth.
Overall? A Stunning tour de force spewing forth the moral decay that is eating away at western civilisation.
Remember in the days of VHS when certain places in a movie suffered from a degraded picture because you'd rewound and re-watched the sweet, glorious blood splatter scenes over and over. Well thank god for digital because you'll want to do that with this movie.
It is an unashamedly cheesy, revenge gore-fest of the likes I have never seen before. I would hazard a guess that this much blood has not been spilt on screen since the splatter-fests of the late seventies and early eighties, and perhaps not even then.
There is a story but it's secondary to the fun filled blood fest. In a nutshell it's about a tough school girl who hunts down the school bully son of a yakuza that killed her younger brother and his best mate. Along the way she loses an arm, gains a machine gun for the arm (like the leg in Planet Terror), loses her humanity, gains an ally and has to face down a drill bra- yes a drill bra, but that's one of the weaker moments.
Put 'Shoot 'em Up', 'Itchi the Killer', the 'Evil Dead' movies, and the goriest film you've ever seen into a blender with copious amounts of cheese, awful dialogue and cheap special effects and you've got some idea what this film is like. Then for a pleasant change give the action roles to women and you have a cult classic in the making. I rarely laugh out loud to anything but I did here on numerous occasions.
The level of violence, blood splatter, decapitations, dismemberment, and gore is outrageous, and if while watching it you yawn at some of the slow story telling scenes rest assured that you will not have to wait long for the violence to return. The finale has to be seen to be believed.
Best watched with your mates and a few beers. Highly recommended.
It is an unashamedly cheesy, revenge gore-fest of the likes I have never seen before. I would hazard a guess that this much blood has not been spilt on screen since the splatter-fests of the late seventies and early eighties, and perhaps not even then.
There is a story but it's secondary to the fun filled blood fest. In a nutshell it's about a tough school girl who hunts down the school bully son of a yakuza that killed her younger brother and his best mate. Along the way she loses an arm, gains a machine gun for the arm (like the leg in Planet Terror), loses her humanity, gains an ally and has to face down a drill bra- yes a drill bra, but that's one of the weaker moments.
Put 'Shoot 'em Up', 'Itchi the Killer', the 'Evil Dead' movies, and the goriest film you've ever seen into a blender with copious amounts of cheese, awful dialogue and cheap special effects and you've got some idea what this film is like. Then for a pleasant change give the action roles to women and you have a cult classic in the making. I rarely laugh out loud to anything but I did here on numerous occasions.
The level of violence, blood splatter, decapitations, dismemberment, and gore is outrageous, and if while watching it you yawn at some of the slow story telling scenes rest assured that you will not have to wait long for the violence to return. The finale has to be seen to be believed.
Best watched with your mates and a few beers. Highly recommended.
I've read some reviews on here that slag off this movie because they claim the plot is incoherent and makes no sense. Well I have to totally disagree with that, and can only assume that those reviewers have phenomenally low IQs.
The film follows a few days in the life of Keanu's character- an old school cop who ruthlessly takes out the bad guys and lies through his teeth to get the job done. In that sense he is a corrupt cop, but he's not on the take, and as the movie unfolds he discovers his ex partner is grassing him up to Internal Affairs and he must get to the bottom of a cop killing incident that increasingly stinks of blackmail, dirty money and cops betraying cops. I think that's as much as I can say without giving anything away.
My main criticism of this film is that for me, the plot and the twists were far too obvious. So if your one of those people like me who sees twists coming a mile off, but hates it when that happens, you may be disappointed. So I recommend either switching off your brain or giving yourself a congratulatory pat on the back when your guesses are gradually confirmed as the movie unfolds. You can then laugh at the idiots on IMDb who couldn't make sense of it.
There's plenty of shoot outs, some decent action, and an interesting slant on the Internal Affairs scenario. Admittedly many of the characters are clichés but what cop thriller isn't riddled with them? And besides, clichés are clichés because they are often spot on to reality. Hugh Laurie has a small but significant role as a 'House' version of an Internal Affairs officer. I was annoyed by the ending, in that certain faceless and unknown corrupt officials appear to end up being protected and not pay for their crimes, but on reflection I realise that had this story been a true one, then that would have been exactly what would have happened.
All in all a good effort, not in Training Day's league but let's face it that was something extraordinary. Don't listen to the dunce's that claim the plot is a mess and doesn't make sense, it's just that those reviewers are so thick they have to crap on anything they don't understand and really should be watching The Telly Tubbies instead.
The film follows a few days in the life of Keanu's character- an old school cop who ruthlessly takes out the bad guys and lies through his teeth to get the job done. In that sense he is a corrupt cop, but he's not on the take, and as the movie unfolds he discovers his ex partner is grassing him up to Internal Affairs and he must get to the bottom of a cop killing incident that increasingly stinks of blackmail, dirty money and cops betraying cops. I think that's as much as I can say without giving anything away.
My main criticism of this film is that for me, the plot and the twists were far too obvious. So if your one of those people like me who sees twists coming a mile off, but hates it when that happens, you may be disappointed. So I recommend either switching off your brain or giving yourself a congratulatory pat on the back when your guesses are gradually confirmed as the movie unfolds. You can then laugh at the idiots on IMDb who couldn't make sense of it.
There's plenty of shoot outs, some decent action, and an interesting slant on the Internal Affairs scenario. Admittedly many of the characters are clichés but what cop thriller isn't riddled with them? And besides, clichés are clichés because they are often spot on to reality. Hugh Laurie has a small but significant role as a 'House' version of an Internal Affairs officer. I was annoyed by the ending, in that certain faceless and unknown corrupt officials appear to end up being protected and not pay for their crimes, but on reflection I realise that had this story been a true one, then that would have been exactly what would have happened.
All in all a good effort, not in Training Day's league but let's face it that was something extraordinary. Don't listen to the dunce's that claim the plot is a mess and doesn't make sense, it's just that those reviewers are so thick they have to crap on anything they don't understand and really should be watching The Telly Tubbies instead.