SPOILER WARNING!!!! You've been warned.
Sushi girl is a wannabe Reservoir Dogs as far as the plot goes. It looks like it wanted to be a love letter to Tarantino, but unfortunately it falls really short.
It is like Sushi Girl's writers took every cliché' stereotype bond/batman/reservoir dogs criminal they could think of and mashed it up. Crow is gay joker, period the end, and not gay as in the character really likes the same sex, but gay as in its all a character device (like Silver from Skyfall) specifically to up the creepy factor of the villain by playing to homophobia. Duke is the Japanese fetishist/yakuza lover who insist everyone following the rules...I knew someone would be losing a finger in this film the second the word Yakuza was uttered and shared a scene with a cigar cutter. Then you have Max the blunt object, all violence and no finesse or intelligence, Francis the one who has softened because he has a kid, and Fish, the new guy, who went to prison and didn't roll on anyone he barely knew, stashed the diamonds from the heist, and who becomes the victim of the rest. (Honestly though the audience is the victim here)
None of the plot makes any sense, it all is force funneled into making sure the story, realism be damned, arrive exactly at the plot twist the writers need it to. I mean why is Fish suddenly the most stoic person alive while being beaten to death, if he knew where the diamonds were, why not tell? You can't spend them if you are dead? The idea of him double crossing the guys he didn't roll on in 6 years of prison makes little sense. He could've rolled on them for a reduced sentence, put them all away, got out, and spent the diamonds. Similarly if he was loyal enough not to roll, why not split the diamonds with them? Or even just crack under the torture that was way over the top? Garbage character motivation and realism is why. Also, many uncontrollable events that no one could've planned for had to happen just right to arrive at the last scenes with only the Sushi Girl and Duke, with Duke paralyzed from tetrodotoxin from the blow fish. It wrapped a little too neatly and again makes the whole thing feel forced.
This movie seeks to get over just by hitting the beats of over the top cliché's, graphic violence/torture porn, casting, and the fact that there is a naked woman in almost every scene. So 14 year old boys will love this, and no one else.
To be fair, I enjoyed the plot twist of the Sushi Girl getting vengeance, that was pretty satisfying unrealistic or not, but it was diminished by the train-wreck that was the first hour I had to suffer through getting there. So all in all, I wouldn't recommend this movie, which is a shame, there is a great deal of wasted potential that could have been salvaged with a better story, more well written characters, and a premise that started out as more than a random joke idea of "Hey dude? What if a bunch of criminals were gathered around a Sushi Girl talking about their crimes?"
Sushi girl is a wannabe Reservoir Dogs as far as the plot goes. It looks like it wanted to be a love letter to Tarantino, but unfortunately it falls really short.
It is like Sushi Girl's writers took every cliché' stereotype bond/batman/reservoir dogs criminal they could think of and mashed it up. Crow is gay joker, period the end, and not gay as in the character really likes the same sex, but gay as in its all a character device (like Silver from Skyfall) specifically to up the creepy factor of the villain by playing to homophobia. Duke is the Japanese fetishist/yakuza lover who insist everyone following the rules...I knew someone would be losing a finger in this film the second the word Yakuza was uttered and shared a scene with a cigar cutter. Then you have Max the blunt object, all violence and no finesse or intelligence, Francis the one who has softened because he has a kid, and Fish, the new guy, who went to prison and didn't roll on anyone he barely knew, stashed the diamonds from the heist, and who becomes the victim of the rest. (Honestly though the audience is the victim here)
None of the plot makes any sense, it all is force funneled into making sure the story, realism be damned, arrive exactly at the plot twist the writers need it to. I mean why is Fish suddenly the most stoic person alive while being beaten to death, if he knew where the diamonds were, why not tell? You can't spend them if you are dead? The idea of him double crossing the guys he didn't roll on in 6 years of prison makes little sense. He could've rolled on them for a reduced sentence, put them all away, got out, and spent the diamonds. Similarly if he was loyal enough not to roll, why not split the diamonds with them? Or even just crack under the torture that was way over the top? Garbage character motivation and realism is why. Also, many uncontrollable events that no one could've planned for had to happen just right to arrive at the last scenes with only the Sushi Girl and Duke, with Duke paralyzed from tetrodotoxin from the blow fish. It wrapped a little too neatly and again makes the whole thing feel forced.
This movie seeks to get over just by hitting the beats of over the top cliché's, graphic violence/torture porn, casting, and the fact that there is a naked woman in almost every scene. So 14 year old boys will love this, and no one else.
To be fair, I enjoyed the plot twist of the Sushi Girl getting vengeance, that was pretty satisfying unrealistic or not, but it was diminished by the train-wreck that was the first hour I had to suffer through getting there. So all in all, I wouldn't recommend this movie, which is a shame, there is a great deal of wasted potential that could have been salvaged with a better story, more well written characters, and a premise that started out as more than a random joke idea of "Hey dude? What if a bunch of criminals were gathered around a Sushi Girl talking about their crimes?"