Dark Samurai

The images in this movie are exceptionally beautiful. Especially the naked body sequences of the bathing couple are deeply touching. The textures of the protagonists' bodies and also the image composition makes you think you are admiring very atmospheric paintings. I had an impression I was watching an introduction to an independent computer game.

Because essentially that's what Dark Samurai is - a prolonged screen-saver. For the first 30 minutes of the movie (and that's all I could stand) there is hardly any plot, only eye-candies.

Considering the variety of today's music the soundtrack could be a bit more adventurous not to say experimental, because it doesn't really match the artism and beauty of the images. As for the dialogues, the only line in the first 30 minutes of Dark Samurai is the main protagonist whispering the name of his loved one, which, after some time, becomes tiresome, and judging by bursts of sarcastic laughter across the audience during the screening, it is not only my opinion.

Tried to stay focussed watching the first 20 minutes and then started to fast forward through the rest of the film in hopes of finding some scenes with actual story.