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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirOnce you get past the question of why someone would make a movie this artificial in the first place and move on to the answer (purely for the hell of it), Sukiyaki Western Django is a blood-drenched, dynamite, often hilarious and uniquely weird big-screen entertainment.
- 75TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThe ideal viewer is a Miike fan...You know who you are.
- 70Film ThreatFilm ThreatWhile it is a glossy crowd pleaser, it still has a few typically off the wall, classic Miike touches.
- 67The A.V. ClubThe A.V. ClubLoses some of its appeal once the novelty of Miike's conceptual shenanigans wears off.
- 60Village VoiceVillage VoiceThis delirious spaghetti eastern could only have come from the boiling brain of Takashi Miike, the prolific Japanese auteur whose spectacularly uneven films account for the lion's share of the past decade's most utterly batshit movie moments.
- 50VarietyDerek ElleyVarietyDerek ElleyBasic joke wears off after five minutes, and many bystanders will start to head out of town. But genre/Asian buffs prepared to ride shotgun for two hours will be rewarded with some classy action sequences and densely accoutred widescreen lensing.
- 50The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottMore often there is a frantic, compulsive quality to the action. Fanboy intoxication with the idea of formal ingenuity too often stands in for the thing itself.
- 50New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoDarkly funny (par for the course with Miike), visually stunning and full of references to other films.
- 50Christian Science MonitorChristian Science MonitorSpeaking of Tarantino, who should never be allowed to act under any circumstance, he's cast in a key storytelling role, and it's one indication among many that the whole project is little more than a stunt.
- 40New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanA lightweight goof that feels a little dashed-off.