Bunraku

BUNRAKU (2010) - Sept. 17, 2010
Nope, not a fan.  About a couple of guys who both want to kill the same guy, set in a strange, gunless future society.  Featuring bizarre, super-stylized visuals that make everything look like cardboard cutouts in a stage play, this was definitely a unique looking film, but there's only so far that unique visuals can go.  The main problem here is that all of the characters are almost absurdly dull.  Featuring dialogue that consists almost entirely of one-liners and pseudo-hard-boiled dialogue that must have seemed clever to someone at some point, the whole thing got tiresome pretty fast.  The film had quite a lot of action, but with the exception of one pretty great scene (that shamelessly ripped off Old Boy) it was all kind of mediocre.  Meh.  1/2*