Gokudô heiki (2011)

Gokudô heiki: Directed by Tak Sakaguchi, Yudai Yamaguchi. With Tak Sakaguchi, Akaji Maro, Shingo Tsurumi, Mei Kurokawa. After his father is killed, a young yakuza comes back to Japan for revenge – and a machine gun for an arm.

“For a movie in the extreme genre that has root in Japan, then u0026quot;Yakuza Weaponu0026quot; (u0026quot;Gokudô Heikiu0026quot;) was fairly boring and uninteresting. Especially, because by comparison to movies such as u0026quot;Machine Girlu0026quot;, to pick a single movie in the genre, then u0026quot;Yakuza Weaponu0026quot; seemed pointless and irrelevant.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe storyline is about a Yakuza member who returns to Japan after having served in some war in the times post World War II, and he has to fight against rival Yakuza people.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis was basically all there was to the storyline, it didnu0026#39;t have anything interesting to offer – unless you count irrelevant action sequences and fighting for leverage solid enough to make the foundation of a movie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe acting in the movie was, as with other movies in this particular genre, over the top and not to be taken too seriously.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs for the effects and the action sequences, well, donu0026#39;t expect anything overly impressive or anywhere remotely near what you can see in other movies in the genre.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Yakuza Weaponu0026quot; is a boring movie that failed to capture my attention, and it became a losing battle to just sit through it to the end. I gave up on the movie and will not make a second attempt to finish it, because the movie had nothing to offer; weak storyline, poor special effects and a total sense of meaning to the movie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI am rating the movie a mere 3 out of 10 stars rating, purely because of the production value of the movie and the acting – everything else was just irrelevant.”