Movie Information
Overall Rank: 5991
Average Rating: 2.8/4
# of Ratings: 8
Theatrical Release Date: 10/17/2003
Language: Japanese
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
Actors: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Anne Suzuki, Kirin Kiki, Goro Kishitani, Yukiko Okamoto, Mitsuru Murata
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"Returner" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 03/09/2012
A young woman returns from the future and enlists the unwilling help of a hitman to stop an alien invasion. The Terminator meets Independence Day with a dash of Transformers in a highly derivative but fun pulp sci-fi actioner. It borrows heavily from a lot of sources and the effects can occasionally feel a little "Stargate SG-1" but the likable leads and inventive visuals mean it is still very entertaining. There's the usual high octane martial arts mixed with future technology giving an excuse for some bullet-time acrobatics and Goro Kishitani makes an amusingly over the top villain. If the time travel paradox twist had been used with a little more imagination it could've been brilliant, but as it stands it's an undemandingly fun sci-fi actioner in the mold of Ryuhei Kitamura.
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