08-02-2021, 11:12 PM
Rurouni Kenshin: The beginning
Part 5 - or maybe it’s 1 - came up on Netflix. It’s got great sword fights (and you know my love of those) but it’s longwinded - 2 hr 18 min or so - and it expounds on a story arc told in the previous chapter so there’s not much suspense. We know where it’s going to go.
But still, it has its beauty. There’s a middle act where the protag tries to lead a normal live and finds some happiness in the mundane, but as karma has it, gets sucked in again. This middle act is way too long. Get back to the sword fights already. And there an epilogue after that. Then one more battle.
Again, the choreo is on point. Some lovely sword play with healthy sanguineous dollops. I like the action sensibility here even with all the cgi blood. It opens with a great fight, followed by a few more good action sequences, then gets bogged down in the aforementioned hiding arc. But those sword fights are mighty satisfying. Might just fast forward to the fight scenes.
I’m confused about the other previous films. I want to see them now, not so much to fill in the story, more so to see if the sword fights are all this good.
DOOM recommended.
Part 5 - or maybe it’s 1 - came up on Netflix. It’s got great sword fights (and you know my love of those) but it’s longwinded - 2 hr 18 min or so - and it expounds on a story arc told in the previous chapter so there’s not much suspense. We know where it’s going to go.
But still, it has its beauty. There’s a middle act where the protag tries to lead a normal live and finds some happiness in the mundane, but as karma has it, gets sucked in again. This middle act is way too long. Get back to the sword fights already. And there an epilogue after that. Then one more battle.
Again, the choreo is on point. Some lovely sword play with healthy sanguineous dollops. I like the action sensibility here even with all the cgi blood. It opens with a great fight, followed by a few more good action sequences, then gets bogged down in the aforementioned hiding arc. But those sword fights are mighty satisfying. Might just fast forward to the fight scenes.
I’m confused about the other previous films. I want to see them now, not so much to fill in the story, more so to see if the sword fights are all this good.
DOOM recommended.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse