Spoonixel Amateur movie with Big budget

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

coldplayer-57213 This movie is a suspense movie. The main character is Aoyagi. One day, he is mistaken for a murderer so that he runs for dear life. However, when he runs, there are a lot of difficulties. In order to live, he runs away many chaser with the help of his friends. I think that his performance is really good. In particular, I strongly feel sense of urgency. If you are interested in his performance, please watch this movie.

cadence921 Masaharu Aoyagi, a delivery service company's employee, is pointed a gun by a police officer after he meets his old friend and hears the friend's mysterious words. He is framed as an assassin of the Prime Minister and he runs away.The plot development of this film is speedy and I couldn't take my eyes off. The setting is wild and I think that this film is like American film.Characters are very attractive and music is also wonderful. I like the theme song of this film, "Golden Slumber".I realized the importance of trust again through this film. We must give up when we are doubted if nobody believes us.I have read the original novel and it is my favorite. It is often said that live-action versions are worse than original works. However, I think that the film is no less wonderful than the novel. Casts are very good at acting and casting perfectly matches my image.

pinokiyo The beginning had a strong opening where I was actually engaged/intrigued, but after the main character makes a "run for it", that is when everything just falls apart, literally (story/pacing), and just becomes a plain, super dragged out, extremely silly and dumb, where things just conveniently happen just for the sake of happening (old man in the hospital... come on now), boring adventure. I can suspend some disbelief, but they end up taking things way too far. It's like the opening starts out really accelerating with a big bang that grabs your interest -- and you'd think it would be more intense after he makes a run for it, but instead the whole film after that just never picks up the pace/just slows way way down/drags and decides to take a huge cartoon world/scenario approach instead. It's very obvious things just unnaturally, forcefully occur just for the sake of the director/writer to connect it with another ridiculous silly plot (Oh, those memories of making out in an abandoned crummy old Corolla... oh! let's bring back that nostalgia and have a wife, who knows absolutely nothing about cars, hook up the battery herself to come to the rescue... Just silly.)The writer of this film clearly is a Beatles fan and believes in the JFK assassination conspiracy/media manipulations. The plot is about the Prime Minister of Japan being assassinated instead, and it ends up being framed on the main character, where he then makes a run for it. The film is a satire of "Lee Harvey Oswald" being framed for JFK, or "Bin Laden" for 9/11, where the media just needs an "image"/scapegoat. The idea is very interesting and I was really engaged and excited at first where it was going to end up, but the rest of the film is just absolute torture and disappointing. Although I cry easily when watching movies, I could not even cry once or find anything touching for this film; I can tell the director tried to throw in all these cheesy touchy moments, but it's so forcefully done, it just makes you roll your eyes and cringe instead. (Seriously... fireworks coming out of manhole covers??? Come on now... That had to be the stupidest thing ever. The wife is some sort of superwoman.) The problem with this film is that it doesn't know whether to be completely serious or end up going so over-the-top ridiculousness turning into an anime world. When people start behaving like they do in anime and really over-the-top silly things start to happen, it actually backfires on the realism/suspense - it really takes the audience out of it. It seriously loses its suspense because you just can't take it seriously anymore. It needs consistency, which this film doesn't have. What made movies like "The Fugitive" suspenseful and exciting is because as over-the-top Hollywood action it may have had, it was still grounded. The ending "twist" is also not that clever/not worth all that time for that pay off. I felt like the movie was more like 3 hours long; it just really felt that dragged on.The positive reviews are giving this movie way too much credit than it really is. Overall, the plot had potential, but the film decided to take a cartoon silly approach with an extremely cheesy flashback "going back home" story.

dbborroughs Story of a delivery man who is set up by some unknown people to take the blame for the killing of the prime minister of Japan. Things go cockeyed when he manages to get away and is chased across the city and helped by friends, family and a serial killer.Rambling looping story thats spins out its story then begins to cross back on it self is very much in the style of the directors earlier films such as a Fish Story and A Foreign Duck, A Domestic Duck and God in a Coin Locker. Knowing that the film all interconnects and that the time frame is fragmented takes a bit of the wonder out of the film because knowing the style allows you to piece whats happening together.Don't get me wrong I like the film, but the people I spoke with after the screening at the NYAFF who hadn't seen any of the directors earlier films were rapturous because they had never seen anything like it. How well you know what the director does will make the film go from good to great depending.Very much worth a look.