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All Leaf3.5

"Tidak ada mulut yang lebih bisa diandalkan selain yang selalu diam"

Nick Feldman3.5

First hour is just "samurai Columbo," and obviously I'm very into that. Second hour is much more concerned with flashback and the underlying mechanics of the mystery, which aren't quite as clean, but it's got a sharp enough cast and visual aesthetic to get by. The characters seem to have a little bit more to them in the first half, but once the reveals start coming some of them get kind of flattened out, which is a shame, but this is still a pretty satisfying novelty.

Ryan2.5

A little less conversation and a little more action, please. It took me a while to settle on a rating for Samurai Vengeance because, while I found myself undeniably bored for long stretches, it is not technically a terrible film. Yaël and I were simply the wrong audience for it. The rest of the crowd at CameraJapan, on the other hand, were eating up every single second — or so it seemed, going by the reactions. Their level of hysterical investment made it so that at one point Yaël and I just looked at each other in disbelief, silently asking; “Is this literally the first time these people have ever watched a movie?!”. One woman in particular gasped so audibly at the reappearance of a prop that you would have thought a real killer had just jumped through the screen to behead her with a samurai sword.The title had looked promising, and given that this was the only time-slot I could fit into my planning this year, I went in hoping for a fast-paced genre piece. Instead, the narrative gets hopelessly bogged down in endless exposition and tedious posturing. When the action arrives, it is competent enough, but it lacks the visceral weight or stylised flair needed to justify the long, dry stretches of dialogue that precede it. The slick production values and crowd-pleasing antics might carry it for festival diehards, but stripped of that performative audience energy, there is precious little underneath.