SpecialWeirdo101

I was a bit worried about watching this movie when I saw it was in Japanese/English, and I was right about that. Its about 50/50 Japanese/English. After searching and not finding any subs, I decided to give it a go anyhow. The movie is well made, with lots of images from Japanese nature. The acting looks good too, at least not too weird. The japanese dialogue is really hard to understand without subs but thats expected I guess. The movie gave me "flashbacks" to Bruce Lee and Rocky movies, I would not be surprised if the writers have watched all of those films. Tyler Wood and Yusuke Ogasawara are doing a nice job as the main caracters in the movie, and its their first movie for both of them. I would guess not their last :) The directors, Reza Ghassemi and Adam VillaSenor (they are also the writers) are doing a nice job putting the movie together. Part of the movie are in black/white, but it fits the movie good and helps make the "mafia" effect stronger.

I believe this movie could been a strong 8 or maybe even a 9 in my rating, but because its impossible to understand everything without subs, I have to set it as low as 7.

I looked at the reviews before watching this movie, mostly because I never heard of it before. I DO like Max Martini as a actor and was hoping the movie was good. But it ends out that I hate Max Martini as a writer/director. I rarely fast forward on movies, they mostly deserve to be watched, if I want to write a review that is. This time I was tempted more than one time. I cant see any other purpose of this movie than to bore the life out of the audience...

As a "documentary" the movie are less than good (we see it in the news at least weekly, nothing new), as a "adventure" or road movie its less than good (its enough bad road movies out there), as a "action" movie it needs way more action. The "drama" genre fits, but its the most boring drama I have seen in a long time.

Max Martini, please don't do this again, keep your ass in acting only in the future.

As for all off you making a account just to rate/review this movie as 10/10, please let me know what you are smoking to think this are a good movie..

Not that I think smoking stuff will make me change my mind, but it might help me forget that I ever watched it in the first place. It fits good in my list of movies "to never watch again"

I was expecting 90 minutes of fun, but I was surprised, it felt way longer than 90 minutes. Basically this movie fits better in drama category, I smiled one time and didn't laugh at all. I'm not sure we can blame the actors, most of them are well experienced and should do better performances. The director/writer, Hannah Fidell, is the next in line, and my feeling is that she have seen lots of road movies and decided to "do it better myself". Well, I think you failed in that. Its common that these movies include, broken car ( at least one time in each movie), fighting in bars, strangers ending in bed together, change in plans (which ends up in a bad way). This movie have all of that, and all other things ever been in a road movie. The story is not "fun", it just makes the movie feel long and dumb (pun intended). I blame this on Hannah Fidell.

The only thing that saves this from a nice one star is that it actually have actors that CAN act, even if they get poor directions. But even the acting is not good enough to give it more than 2 thumbs up, sorry folks.