lar_lef

Very enjoyable. Like the old, good comedies about murder. Thus "Arsenic and Old Lace" updated in syle with a modern touch of a bit of sex and racial mixture. What it tried to do , it did very well. And so 9 stars.

Film begins very well and continues well until social worker frees her increasingly loved charge from prison from which he would be sent to a hard core prison where his youthful handsome looks would make him a victim. Somehow I found it a bit hard to swallow her change from Bonnie Good to Bonnie of Clyde mien, and afterward, as stated, the film becomes less interesting, less beautifully photographed, and only the good ending redeems something from a story which held your interest and was believable but gradually becomes a criminal romance story. Well acted,and considering the low budget, impressive nonetheless.

We all applaud the main protagonist in this movie, and she is why i gave it a 6, not a 5, but really sushi in all its 50 shades begins to come out of the viewer's ears and eyes, especially in the interminable first half of the film, more excruciating than enduring a series of JapaneseTea ceremonies by a coffee drinker. It made this viewer consider committing seppuku, or yearning for a samurai to disembody the cameraman. Perhaps the heroic samurai Benkei who, according to Japanese legend, killed a giant carp which had swallowed his mother when she fell into a waterfall. A more fitting title would have been "Long Days Journey into Shushi." The movie would have been conceivably sponsored by some sushi lobbying organization. I waited patiently and expectantly during the litany of sushi styles for a falafel-sushi, but no luck. OK, so my usual fish fare is gefilte fish or fish and chips-- yes, admittedly a fish proletarian.forgive my carping and giive me a burrito.