Sunday, June 6, 2010
GEISHA ASSASSIN (a review)
Another Asian b-movie review! Two in a row! Weekend double feature! Woohoo!
The story: a geisha seeks out the man who killed her father and has to kill a lot of people to get to him.
Was it good?
Um, not really. The first half was just fight scene after fight scene. All the fights were like B-movie monsters -- they were passable, but nothing great. No great moves, no great wire stunts. Lots of hitting and swords and spinning, but it was all kind of meh. In the second half I think they got into the story more -- there are flashbacks of her as a young girl and her father, but by then I'd checked out and was multitasking so I missed a lot (foreign films with subtitles are hard to watch while multitasking). Maybe it came together, but for me it was too little too late.
*** PASS (but it wasn't horrible) ***
Recommend instead: there are so many good kung fu movies -- CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON and HERO and ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA and RUMBLE IN THE BRONX and...well, there are a lot of better kung fu movies.
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