Reviews of Casshern

A work of art

Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago on 24 August 2008 05:51 (A review of Casshern)

Japanese scifi movie. In a dystopian alternate timeline Europe has been occupied by the Greater Eastern Federation (Japan) & a 50 year long war rages. Visually it's an amazing spectacle, a work of art that's surreal in parts with fantastic special effects. I'd love to see it on a big cinema screen. It's a live action remake of an anime movie & the effects recognize this with a great mix between live action & CGI. It has a highly stylized retro-futuristric feel that is a definite nod towards Metropolis. There's also a nod towards Frankenstein, Terminator & The Matrix.

The storyline however is quite hard to follow, due in part to the visual assualt on your senses & because the film is long, 2.5 hrs, and despite the spectacle the plot fights to hold your attention. A film that needs to be watched two or three times I feel in order to be fully appreciated. Don't let this stop you from watching it for the first time though, if only for the outstanding visuals. Highly recommended. 8/10.

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A Cure For Insomnia?

Posted : 1 year, 8 months ago on 2 April 2008 11:34 (A review of Casshern)

That was the most drawn out, pretentious, over done piece of crap I have seen. Ok maybe one of... It was enough to put me to sleep and in fact almost did. Think I would have had more enjoyment watching grass grow.
I'm a bit pissed off, can you tell? I just wasted over two hours of my existence trying to stay awake. Sure I loved the imagery, some of it was fantastic but after watching it for awhile that's pretty much all it was.
An excuse to have a string of great imagery put together along with melodrama and dialogue that amounted to drivel. Drawn out drivel!
In the beginning it was a tad confusing and pretty slow but when the Neo Sapiens proclaimed themselves I thought maybe it was going to turn around.
Boy was I disappointed. I spent the rest of the time rolling my eyes and yawning. I had to mute the sound half way through because, although the soundtrack could have been great, it only added to making it feel like it was going on for ever and didn't even seem to match the movie. It started to drive me nuts.
The story line wasn't too bad though it's just if they had of cut a lot of it out and made it tighter then it may have been easier to watch but as it was it was just scene after scene of drawn out bull.
Basically more real action (not whimsical action) was needed & less melodrama. Pretentious try hards...

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Casshern review

Posted : 1 year, 11 months ago on 25 December 2007 01:30 (A review of Casshern)

I was going to give this movie a mere 4 out of 5 rating until the last ten minutes of the film.. it was so beautful a conclusion that it made me cry LOL the tales is one of hate - and greed. And all that is wrong in our world.. the cinematoraphy was amazing - obvilously a lot of work put into this movie after it was filmed - filters and brushwork - bloody amazing.. you can tell it was originally based on the anime :) the whole movie just blew me away.. music is terrific too.. i recommend it to everyone!!

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Just what was going on here!?

Posted : 2 years, 9 months ago on 12 February 2007 01:10 (A review of Casshern)

That is the question I would ask. What on earth was I watching? There are no doubt going to be some spoilers in this review, so read at your peril!

This film is almost entirely comprised of CGI based action. I must say it is extremely confusing and unexpectedly boring throughout long parts. The earth has effectively been torn apart and humanity is too exhausted to rebuild their society, but who exactly is the army still fighting? There's lots of mention of terrorists but I didn't see any.

The neoroids wander out into the middle of nowhere and stumble across a fortress which just happens to have millions of ready-built robots with which they can wage war on humanity... ok?

Casshern himself is just a reincarnated soldier. Where did he pick up his superspeed and amazing fighting ability? I just couldn't keep up with what was going on. It still isn't explained why those Neoroids came to life in the first place! Weighting in at two-hours, I would have rather spent my time doing something else. Never judge a DVD by its cover is the lesson learnt today!

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