Dead End Run

A few years ago, Ishii Sogo wowed me with the best boring film ever. If you want to see a boring film, I highly recommend Angel Dust, (I think that’s the one) as it’s the most entertaining boring film I’ve ever seen. Since then, I’ve seen a couple other films by Ishii Sogo, and they’ve all been at least noteworthy.

This one is a neat parcel of three similar films. When I say “neat parcel” here, what I really mean is “pungent spikey noisy bright-coloured tasty parcel”. This is a movie that knows you’re watching it. We’ve got, in order, one dead girl who sings Broadway tunes, the world’s longest guns-pointed standoff, and a mute suicidal hostage. It took me a little while to get into the films, but once I got into the dual-paced nature of his storytelling, it was quite an enjoyable spectacle. The film appears to be very quick. To put it another way, it looked like a music video. Quick cuts, digital effects, shakey camera. The stories it told though, were very slow.