A so called gangster movie, this is the film 'Brother', directed by Takeshi Kitano about a Japanese ganster (Yamamoto) who escapes to Los Angeles to find his half brother Ken, after discracing his gang 'Yakuza'. He then teams up with a fellow gang member Denny, and before long, he is back too his old ruthless violent ways, killing rival gang members. After a while the gang is then strong enough to join the rival Japanese crime lord called 'Shirase'. Now the gang is too big to be ignored and the Mafia step in to eliminate the competition.
This may sound like a good story line but the film was deceivingly draining to watch. This was not helped by the persisting onslaught of subtitles. Well the only good thing about them was that they showed the language barrier between the main character (Yamamoto) and the other members of the gang.
The scenes in the film also dragged on, this made no significance to the storyline either. You would need a very patient head to not get confused about what is going on. One of the most pointless scenes which dragged on was when they were playing basketball, it seemed to go on for 1-2 Min's, and nothing happened.
The one good scene was when Yamamoto and Denny captured the Mafia boss (well I think it was?), and made him pick wires to pull which were attached to a pole with a gun on the end. He then had to choose three and if it didn't go off, he could go. As far as the storyline goes, it was basically told to you on the back of the DVD case, the film had no plot twists or bit's too make you go 'Ahhh'.
As far as the action scenes go they were very poorly directed and the use of props was very limited, making this quite amateurish. Plus the blood didn't really look like blood, I've seem better on Holby City.
Overall I thik this film was very poor, and ever so hard to follow.
Although if you have trouble sleeping this could be one for you...
By Phil Blackwell
This may sound like a good story line but the film was deceivingly draining to watch. This was not helped by the persisting onslaught of subtitles. Well the only good thing about them was that they showed the language barrier between the main character (Yamamoto) and the other members of the gang.
The scenes in the film also dragged on, this made no significance to the storyline either. You would need a very patient head to not get confused about what is going on. One of the most pointless scenes which dragged on was when they were playing basketball, it seemed to go on for 1-2 Min's, and nothing happened.
The one good scene was when Yamamoto and Denny captured the Mafia boss (well I think it was?), and made him pick wires to pull which were attached to a pole with a gun on the end. He then had to choose three and if it didn't go off, he could go. As far as the storyline goes, it was basically told to you on the back of the DVD case, the film had no plot twists or bit's too make you go 'Ahhh'.
As far as the action scenes go they were very poorly directed and the use of props was very limited, making this quite amateurish. Plus the blood didn't really look like blood, I've seem better on Holby City.
Overall I thik this film was very poor, and ever so hard to follow.
Although if you have trouble sleeping this could be one for you...
By Phil Blackwell
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