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Old 01-05-2024, 06:20 PM   #15367
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“13 Assassins” (2010) - 3/4

For a remake of a film that blatantly steals the “Seven Samurai” template, it isn’t half bad. The circumstances by which these assassins rise up against their target are much more personal and cruel than the Kurosawa material and I’d wager that the original “13 Assassins” didn’t have much in that regard either. This is Takashi Miike though so it starts ugly, gets moving into the team building fairly quickly and then you get to watch a forty five minute fight scene that puts this film beyond all expectation for even the most well conceived of remakes. It’s just forty five minutes of wild shit happening at rapid pace and at no point did I think “this is getting boring”.

If you want to see a movie by a maniac that has big ideas and the talent to back it up then give it a go. It’s a lot better than that VHS incest one he did.
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