Afro Samurai: Resurrection

The film is mostly filled with violence and just boring dialogue - like the series, but just copies the series badly and with no purpose. Do not watch this film unless you really enjoyed the series.

i thought that this title was more entertaining than the series because it went all out and just dumped awesome moment after awesome moment on the viewer in a constant barrage of flying limbs and blood. if you want more of the same from the first one, this movie will satisfy.

As for the plot, like the first one it's somewhat lacking, but that can easily be forgiven due to the wicked-stylish animation, great voice-work, and action that impressed me more than anything sense Equilibrium. i give it a solid 8, if the plot was more cohesive it could easily receive a 9 or 10. I bought the special edition DVD for 20$, if you liked the first show it's definitely worth the money to buy the second. i really want to find the soundtrack to this because the RZA did a really good job with the music.

Pretty lame. Good animation, but the story is fairly random. Pretty much an exercise in style over substance.

I really liked the Afro Samurai anime series. It was lots of fun. But I didn't realize there had been a movie sequel until 15 years later. Excitedly, I sat down to watch it, and, uh ... what?

It starts with a fight, and stuff happens, and the unstoppable protagonist somehow gets the prize he worked the whole series to get snatched away by some rando, and then he's, I guess, going to kinda do what he did in the series all over again, except this time to protect his father's ghost?

What?

Anyway, it was just an incomprehensible mess, and after about a half hour I couldn't take it anymore. I'm hugely disappointed.

Not for the faint of heart, this latest entry in the Afro Samurai series continues a tremendous effort in line drawing style animation, and may by some be seen as frequently a bit too abrupt in frame-to-frame action, but it manages to be so well aligned within the graphic novel genre (so that if you blink during sequences what you retain may be a panel by panel view of what the story needs, and what a comic reader wants). I give it the 10 of 10 full rating as a classic piece that works very well without the usual massive CGI effects most folks seem to expect these days in anything considered 'animated'. Yes, it is more than a bit bloody in nature, but contains a message 'of honor' and more fundamental - the message to carry on if you believe in something. Very well done, thank you Samuel Jackson for the terse comments from a no nonsense character. I highly recommend this film, but it is not for young kids...