A movie worth seeing for none other that three main reasons:
The absurdist exercise in retrofuturism.
The drunkenly charming performance of Fassbinder.
The colorful anarchism of a production design that rewrites all the rules of what was then known as cyberpunk.
The movie with his unbridled and convoluted plot owes way more to William Burroughs than William Gibson. The satire, in this unique cinematographic experience is more a direction chosen by director Wolf Gremm, than a clearly defined series of remarks that one can extract or decipher in the script. It is certainly witty and doesn't take itself seriously but you will hardly find any classically intended humour in the short and surreal lines of the actors.
However this is the true strength of the movie and what allows it, to stand the test of time.
Review of Kamikaze 89
