chrelle

normally I love this kind of film, dark experimental and true eye candy. BUT I cannot enjoy this film becuase it is billed as being a lemmy caution movie. Dont get me wrong, I love lemmy caution (eddie constantine), and lemmy caution is more or less the French version of James bond, But here somehow eddie constantine looks like an alien and lemmy in this movie is not the charmeur he is in the other lemmy movies. For me in this film two universes crashes together in utter chaos. On the one hand you have the art element and this movie IS art. But on the other hand you have the lemmy caution world which is best described as a james bond fantasy world where the good guy gets the girl and saves the universe. I cannot make meself put these two worlds together. I expected a lemmy Caution and got a Kubrick film instead!!!!!!!!!!1 Now I love some of Kubricks films, but try to imagine a James Bond movie directed by Jim Jarmush and James Bond not being a hero but more like a fish pulled out of the water and thrown into the desert!!1

Now if this was not called a Lemmy Caution movie I dont think I would have any problems.... hmmm guess this says more about me than about the film itself...

I saw this movie when it was shown a late night in Danish tv. I thought it was a teenage slasher movie, that would help me sleep, well, I was wrong! This movie was disturbing and the fast cutting between past?, present? and future?, made me more interested in this movie instead of turning me off. I never really found what this movie was about because it gives you so many questions and answers you have to figure out ourself. When I was done watching it I argued with myself whether I had just seen a masterpiece or a piece of sh... because the movie IS confusing but still thoughtprovoking (for me anyway;) So the final conclusion must be that I liked this film, maybe even a lot If you like our movies to stand out from the crowd like Darkly Noon, Pi or Nil by Mouth there will be a slim chance for you liking it or perhaps even loving it. If your idea of a good movie is scream or a bullock or a jean claude van dumme movie, well then do not watch this movie.

The first hour is great and full of philosophical material. The relationship between the characters are wonderfully depicted and there's even a few humoristic scenes. Here the story is about betrayal, love and a beautiful friendship. But then story gets confusing and the fighting scenes which in the beginning was down to earth (as much a Hong Kong movie can be)becomes a mess of flying villains, drunken swordsmasters, unbeleviable villains generally. In this part of the movie it is all about fighting and killing.

What started out to be a fantastic ruined it totally for itself. I will give it 10/10 for the first hour and 0/10 for the last 40 minutes. So the total score for the entire movie will be 5/10