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I love this movie!

posted 11 years ago by zhoolagin
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I love the fact that it's low budget. I think the writer/director did an awesome job telling a (somewhat) original story without havin a huge budget and big studio backing him. He also created the "gun kata" martial art/gun fighting and all that. I'm kind of a sucker for distopian/post WW3 type movies.

[–] ChazzJazz 11 years ago

I think this is the second movie where christian Bale shows any geniune emotions, apart from his child actor turn in Empire of the Sun.

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[–] zhoolagin 11 years ago

NEWSIES! Hello!?! Ha! Jk

[–] tb-sch 11 years ago

awesome job telling a (somewhat) original story

It felt like being made up of scifi elements I know from different other movies. I really wanted to like it and there are some scenes which work well, but everything is tainted by the silly fighting sequences which cry "matrix without the budget!" very loudly.

The ending is a shame, completely lacking ideas. This is a generic cowboy movie ending - someone just fights better and therefore wins. That is nice for elementary school kids when it runs between Powerrangers or Ninja Turtle cartoons (which work the same way), but as a grown-up I demand some more effort to be put into the finale. At this point I could not recommend the movie to anyone, since it became half a movie - the first half trying to be scifi on the level of a Ray Bradbury, the second half failing to pay attention to what happened before.

It seems like they wanted to jump onto the Matrix wave and therefore hurried an idea which would have needed more time writing it. It reminds me a lot of Le Pacte Des Loup, which could have been reasonably original but ended up being stylistically a generic Matrix clone as well.

I wish the creator had had the balls to actually create something new and to explore the initial topic, then maybe a movie well worth watching could have been the result.

[–] mentattodd 10 years ago

I loved this movie too! It was not very original though - but the way it put all the various martial arts/sci fi/dystopian future elements together really worked for me. This is one of my all time favourites!

[–] Dextrousleftie 10 years ago

Sigh. For the last time, the gun kata and the action sequences are NOT Matrix rip offs! The gun kata is a variation of the martial arts form Slapping Hands kata, with a weapon thrown into the mix. And if you've ever watched any martial arts movies before this, all of them seem like the fight sequences are impossible. But a martial arts master is capable of astonishing things if he or she has studied all of their lives. And the Matrix itself is a rip off of God only knows how many other movies already, so why would it really matter if this movie ripped off the Matrix(which it doesn't.)?

Obey My Dog! -Mugatu

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