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Goodbye Cruel World japanese drama review
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Goodbye Cruel World
1 people found this review helpful
by Maggi64
Oct 24, 2023
Completed
Overall 5.0
Story 3.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 1.0

A Wannabe Tarantino Movie That Fails Even as a Copycat

It started off well enough, and since the actors were all such pros I was invested in the characters. Alas, midway it descended into a wannabe Tarantino film replete with an R&B song blasting while two sexy, young hipsters shoot up a room full of dozens of people. But in a Tarantino movie the violence is aesthetically stylish. In this movie, however, it came off as just plain silly.

Some of the silliness involved a petite 90 pound girl who was bashed in the head with a hammer 6 times but did not die; and later in the movie was shot in the chest 3 times, but still did not die. I began to think of her as "The Immortal Femme Fetal." And that's just one of the film's sillier elements. Trust me, there are bucket loads more.

But of all the silliness, I'd have to say that worst involved the director's attempt to copy certain plot lines from "Reservoir Dogs" and certain scenes from "Pulp Fiction." The imitation was so lame that I began to feel embarrassed for this director. Really, by the end of this movie I was just plain cringing.

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