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Versus

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You're talking too much, man...

Yes, Versus talks too much, too much for a movie trying to be the ultimate actioner. We didn't ask it for having characters or transcending the genre like the Killer did. Just for being an action movie with action. And it talks, it talks but it says nothing. Kitamura tries to make the spectator believe that something's going on outside the action scenes and so his movie is remiding us of the useless dialogues written for us blockbusters in order to reach the reglementary length of two hours. The acting? From the Johnny Depp clone to the yakuza and the lady playing as if they didn't know the movie would be shown in thetres, all of them seem somewhere else. And the action? The movie mixes leonian close-ups, wooian slow motions, Dogma like filming and it's not creating a personal style. Just the way the mix between action, chambara, martial arts and zombie movies doesn't create anything either. The only merit of Versus is to point out how much Blade 2 was achieved by managing the synthesis of elements from us and Hong Kong cinemas and talking not too much, while being funny when it talked.



18 July 2003
by Ordell Robbie


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