But I mean that in a very good Way. Well first off all of you going into this Movie expecting a Martial arts festival, I have to disappoint you. This Movie focuses More on the dramatic Storyline, then rather on spectacular Fights. Nonetheless very impressive Fights are in the Movie, it is the Storyline between Danny (Li), Bart (Hoskins), Sam (Freeman) and Victoria (Condon) that keeps you in the Movie. This Movie is mainly a Drama/Martial Arts Movie and no Crime/Action/Thriller like IMDb shows you. Honestly I haven't seen much Hosking's movies in the past, but believe me the main Reasons that keep you into the Movie are very fine Performances from Jet Li and Bob Hoskins. Both of em are wonderful. Another plus to this Movie are the Sound effects. They are realistic as Hell. In most of the Fight Movies you hear some weird sounds coming when they hit one another; well this one were so brutally real that I thought wow they are killing each other out there. The Fights are few but very spectacular and somewhat brutal. The first two Fights are excellent because they are shot very realistic and with a fast paced camera, the last Fights are more graphical and slowly filmed. But as I watched the first two Fights I was impressed how everybody involved in the Fight Sequences, did such a wonderful Job on letting them look brutal and realistic. Every time Li hits somebody I sat there feeling the brutalized Hits, which let's you get the feeling that you're in the Fights (Not Literally but it lets you feel the Hits). Louis Leterrier did a very good Job filming this Movie. The Fight Scenes are not too quick, so that you can see everything and the Dramatic Scenes are shot with the right Amount of Heart to keep the Spectator engaged in the Movie. But be Aware after the first two Fights, is a great Hole which is filled with 40-50 Mins of Storyline, which didn't bother me, but I can imagine that People will go into this Movie expecting something like Romeo must die, Twin Warriors or Fist of Legend they will be heavily disappointed, because this Movie focuses more on it's engaging Storyline. So please enter the Theater with this in Mind and you will LOVE this Movie. One Thing actually bothers me that is the American way of promoting the Movie. As always they will promote the Movie as one of Li's new Martial Arts Festival, with non-stop ass kicking from Li but Please always keep in Mind, Li is more acting than fighting in this Movie!! It is a Drama with Martial Arts Elements in it. Don't be fooled by American Distributors!!!!!!!!
Reviews
2 Reviews
Beyond Re-Animator
(2003)
Do you like Gore and Dark Humor? Then this is for you
5 April 2003
Warning: Spoilers
To start off I'm a huge gore and horror fan, so I was looking forward on seeing this! So did it Surpass my expectations? Well yes on many Levels it did ,but it did have some flaws .Jeffrey Combs is back, and delivered again no memorable but strong performance as the crazy Dr. Herbert West. He's supported by an Ok supporting cast, which includes Jason Barry (Howard Philips) as Combs new assistant and Elsa Pataky (Laura Olney) as a reporter. They both did nothing great, but just an average job. So I have to mention that there are another two who deliver great performances in this Movie. Simon Andreu as the owner of the psychological Prison, and one of the prisoners who's the first one to get re-animated (didn't find any name).Both steal every Scene they're in, even the scenes with Combs presents!
!!!!!SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!! The story remains less or more the same like in the other re-animator movies. People get killed, then get reanimated and become flesh eating monsters. In this movie we get something new West found a way to give the soul back to the monster he created. He is capable of taking the soul from a rat and inserts it into a human beeing. The problem with his new invention is if a human got the rat's soul so he behaves like a rat, which leads in this movie to pretty hilarious stuff. Without any doubt the movies qualities lie in the gore and the dark humor. I think this is one of the goriest movies I have seen since Braindead. I mean the first 50 minutes are so so except for some funny one liners ex. where West's assistant doesn't have the heart to re-animate his love and West says to him `Who are you waiting for she doesn't get any fresher'. After the release of the prisoners the pace gets so fast and never stops until the end of the movie. The opening scene is worth mentioning as well, because it's funny, gross and gory. At times we see that the make-up is fake, but hey I didn't care I had good time with this movie. If you're a fan of the re-animator series, like a whole lot of gore and like your humor sick and dark then this maybe just your movie.
P.S. In the beginning of the end titles watch out for a pretty hilarious scene where a rat fights a penis! You've heard right a penis!!!!!!
!!!!!SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!! The story remains less or more the same like in the other re-animator movies. People get killed, then get reanimated and become flesh eating monsters. In this movie we get something new West found a way to give the soul back to the monster he created. He is capable of taking the soul from a rat and inserts it into a human beeing. The problem with his new invention is if a human got the rat's soul so he behaves like a rat, which leads in this movie to pretty hilarious stuff. Without any doubt the movies qualities lie in the gore and the dark humor. I think this is one of the goriest movies I have seen since Braindead. I mean the first 50 minutes are so so except for some funny one liners ex. where West's assistant doesn't have the heart to re-animate his love and West says to him `Who are you waiting for she doesn't get any fresher'. After the release of the prisoners the pace gets so fast and never stops until the end of the movie. The opening scene is worth mentioning as well, because it's funny, gross and gory. At times we see that the make-up is fake, but hey I didn't care I had good time with this movie. If you're a fan of the re-animator series, like a whole lot of gore and like your humor sick and dark then this maybe just your movie.
P.S. In the beginning of the end titles watch out for a pretty hilarious scene where a rat fights a penis! You've heard right a penis!!!!!!
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