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Layer Cake
Ichi the Killer
28 Weeks Later
Ravenous
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Layer Cake
Cake or Death
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"Debut director Michael Vaughan clearly had a list of boxes to tick: sleek cool blue and boltgun metal color pallette, electro moody Michael Mann-like soundtrack whacked into place, drugs and clubs, copious profanity, a cocky middleman trying to escape from his line of work just as a maelstrom blasts into view to tear everything he was used to to hell. Control slips, bodies pile up, guns are brandished, more hired guns with their own freaky m.o's are brought in. The camera swirls and sweeps gracefully through the neon green and grey urban sprawl of greasy spoons, bars, and cars as deals, hits and beatings are carried out. But it never really escapes from the shadow of Guy Ritchie and his Brit crime flick imitators despite the style and cast. Its a shame this film really doesnt speak with its own voice as there are plenty of glmpses of potential, but at least Vaughan is stealing from the best and knows how to bolt the thing together to carry the audience along for the ride. Best ... "
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Ichi the Killer
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"A Miike film featuring the most delicious torture known to man, this absurdist look at the Yakuza underworld is one of the most unsettling films I have ever seen. Featuring an infantile (with mental teeth) villain who kills purely by splitting people in half via the funky blades in his comically large shoes (and dig that hockey/cyborg/rollerball-esque jumpsuit), a under-boss with a penchant for inflicting pain on himself as much as he does others ( one torture scene involves a rather hefty pan of boiling oil and ...tempura!), and a cast of women all of whom seem to enjoy being raped, this film really requires an effort to get through. Watching this with my brother, we stopped the DVD at least 10 times to simply look at each and utter "'What the F**ck?" But the madness had to continue.The tone of this film is simply scattergunned all over the place- as wacky as the obviously fake blood spurts (apparently Tarantino is a fan)and multiple decapitations often appear, on j ... "
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28 Weeks Later
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"Watching 28 Weeks Later I realised why its the only 'zombie' genre movie that actually disturbs me- its the whole six seconds concept. By that I mean when you get bitten by (or puked on, or in the case of this movie, kiss) a zombie and the infection hits your bloodstream, you have about 6 seconds of writhing, vomiting and if your really energetic, head banging against a wall or floor until you become truly zombiefied. Thats not a lot of time to tie up your personal affairs, or to tell the people around you you love them (or scream at them to RUN THE HELL AWAY).You think cramming an Oscar acceptance speech into the 30 seconds they give you at the acadamy awards podium is tough, with 6 seconds to go before the virus penetrates the blood/brain barrier, you just have about enough time to get the words 'OH MY GOD' out before Bam!- Your eyes go red, you dribble insanely, and feast upon your own family. Its different from the vampire or werewolf movie genre, where there is ... "
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Ravenous
A B Movie Feast
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"This film firmly belongs in that special category of movie for me that can only be called 'Those weird "can't believe they (insert big name actor here that you have profound respect for) were in that, hey it's sunday night, got nothin' to do, lets watch the train wreck again.' To this day I have no idea why Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle (well, ok, I CAN understand Robert Carlyle being in this having just watched him feast on his own wife in 28 Weeks later, but hadn't Guy Pearce kind of moved onto more serious fare post LA Confidential?) are in this film, its kind of ridiculous, But I find this film weirdly mesmerising and every time its on, there I am, eyes glued to screen. Maybe its the haunting Sierra Nevada snowscapes, the way Robert Carlylse embraces his supernatural cannabiism with 'relish', or the fact that Guy Pearce plays it so damn straight despite the ludicrous premise. Maybe I watch it just to hear Robert Carlyle utter the classic lin ... "
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