![]() ![]() How you react to this film will be your tolerance for blood, gore, pretentious twaddle, real philosophy, deadly seriousness, and knowing silliness. The film effectively begins as Izo is crucified and speared to death(?) and then for the next two hours he runs around killing people and being or being the subject of "deep" discussions in various times and places. You will either sit in rapt attention of storm off wondering how stupid you were to spend money on it. You will either find this to be a philosophical tour de force or you will find it a load of dingos kidneys. This review will probably not help anyone and only confuse matters, but its the only way I can explain it. well, you better go watch something else. If you think it sounds like boring twaddle. If you think you will like this movie based on the descriptions you read, you probably will. ![]() similar in style to Jodorowsky's "El Topo". Extremely violent movie, very powerful at times. who will either have you covering your ears or desperately searching for his records online. Occasionally the action stops for some rousing acoustic guitar and wild folk-singing from Kazuki Tomakawa. (Even if most people's thoughts will be along the lines of "What the f*** is going on?") Imaginatively-staged action sequences are piled on non-stop, one after the other. Pretentious? Well, of course! When you get right down to it, ALL philosophy is pretentious! But, is the movie entertaining? Yes. The movie is director Takashi Miike's attempt at some kind of philosophical dissertation on violence and religion. He kills everyone he comes into contact with. Izo, a dead warrior, is flung arbitrarily through time. but it definitely makes more sense after a second and third viewing. I found the movie a bit confounding at first. you will have to see it for yourself to figure out which it deserves. IZO (4+ outta 5 stars) Well, this movie gets only 2 kinds of ratings. ![]()
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