Casshern Reviews

One of my previous colleagues had this movie on DVD so that’s how I ended up watching it. Anyway, it is such a weird movie… Personally, I thought its weirdness was actually quite appealing but I can imagine that it was really alienating for some of the audience, above all for the European audience. The first interesting aspect about this flick is that it was visually quite impressive. Along ‘Immortel (ad vitam)’, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow’ and ‘Sin City’, it was one of the very first movies produced completely with blue screens with all backgrounds added later during the post-production. Nowadays, it sounds rather common but, 10 years ago, it was quite revolutionary and it added to the mesmerizing qualities of the movie. Still, like I mentionned before, the whole thing was definitely weird and it was above all because of a terribly murky and obscure plot. In fact, it was so obscure, it was almost impossible to follow the whole thing and I lost track of what was going on a couple of times. Still, even though I might be quite generous with my rating but I still liked it in spite its flaws and I think it is worth a look, especially if you are interested in Asian movies.

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...

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!!