Welcome to the new profile
We're still working on updating some profile features. To see the badges, ratings breakdowns, and polls for this profile, please go to the previous version.
Reviews13
Dragonshadow0's rating
The story of a blind masseur, who turns out to be a superb swordsman, and master of martial arts. Visually the movie is a feast, plenty of colour in the costumes shot against the backdrop of bland buildings and countryside, in bad weather as often as not.
As previous commentors have said, arty direction, interesting characters, and excellent swordplay. While it is not too gory, there is plenty of blood, and on the whole it's well done, although there are many places where it is ovious that the blood is digitally edited in after filming. The subtitles are well placed on screen, very readable, and not intrusive at all.
I give this a 9, with slightly better CGI, this would have been a 10.
As previous commentors have said, arty direction, interesting characters, and excellent swordplay. While it is not too gory, there is plenty of blood, and on the whole it's well done, although there are many places where it is ovious that the blood is digitally edited in after filming. The subtitles are well placed on screen, very readable, and not intrusive at all.
I give this a 9, with slightly better CGI, this would have been a 10.
or better?? This film leaves a slightly unsatisfied feeling after viewing. Despite actually learning more about the cube's builders/perpetrators, the viewer is left with even more questions than at the end of the first film.
The actual extension of the cube into a 4th dimension was a logical progression, and the way the filmakers have shown this is quite clever, and the viewer will probably not notice some clues at the time, but later in the film will realise that they had seen them. CG is on the whole good and reasonably unintrusive.
Now we can but wait for the next edition - will it be a prequel? explaining how the cube came to be? or will it be cube 3 (cube cubed?)
7 / 10
The actual extension of the cube into a 4th dimension was a logical progression, and the way the filmakers have shown this is quite clever, and the viewer will probably not notice some clues at the time, but later in the film will realise that they had seen them. CG is on the whole good and reasonably unintrusive.
Now we can but wait for the next edition - will it be a prequel? explaining how the cube came to be? or will it be cube 3 (cube cubed?)
7 / 10
How often does a truly original storyline come along? Imagine you have no way of moving memory from short term (say, 1 minute) to long term (say yesterday). Now put yourself in the place of someone who has this condition, yet is trying to find his wife's killer. The story is not, as you would expect, about the search for the killer, but about the way the search is carried out.
Guy Pearce has proved here that he is in the Hollywood A list, a far cry from tacky Australian Soap, Neighbours - a long journey hindered at the start with his performance in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. And an unheard of director brings fresh approaches to the murder mystery film. Why this film did not win awards by the bucketload is beyond me. One of the very few 10/10 films, and a definite addition to the "DVD to buy list"
Guy Pearce has proved here that he is in the Hollywood A list, a far cry from tacky Australian Soap, Neighbours - a long journey hindered at the start with his performance in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. And an unheard of director brings fresh approaches to the murder mystery film. Why this film did not win awards by the bucketload is beyond me. One of the very few 10/10 films, and a definite addition to the "DVD to buy list"