Death Trance (2005)

Death Trance: Directed by Yûji Shimomura. With Tak Sakaguchi, Takamasa Suga, Kentaro Seagal, Yûki Takeuchi. An unknown time. An unknown place. Without reasons. With no future. His only desire is – Destruction. I’ts good versus evil, and the awakening of an unlikely hero with ultra-kinetic action to create the “action” spectacle of the year.

“I have seen a lot of Asian films and understand that genres get mixed together a lot. But this one takes the cake. Think of putting in John Woo, Billy Idol (!), Wuxia, Kiss Me Deadly, Hellraiser, Evil Dead 2, and Mad Max into a blender and add in a heavy metal soundtrack, and this will give you just some idea of this movie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis is directed by the person who did the fight scenes from Versus and it shows. Almost all of the fight scenes take place in a forest. Hmmm..u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003einteresting is that there is very little bloodshed. A lot of fighting with the blunt edge of the sword!! Not sure why this was done except to cut back on some special effects.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSaw itu0026#39;s Southeast premiere and the audience seemed to really enjoy it too. Lots of u0026#39;oohu0026#39;, laughter and clapping.. Canu0026#39;t remember the last time I remember that in a theater.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eForget the plot (what little there is), and marvel and sheer audacity of some of these scenes. Very enjoyable, very u0026#39;coolu0026#39; and in some cases, very very funny. Just donu0026#39;t expect anything meaningful.”