Dead or Alive (1999)
5/10
It's perverted, it's funny or it's just slow
5 September 2004
Miike's films are just not for me I guess, I like the action and can laugh at the depicted perversions when they are funny, but after Ichi the Killer, Audition and this, I get the impression that he is not capable of making a film that is thrilling or entertaining throughout. His beginnings and endings I usually like, but I think that Miike has to learn in the middle. He is just not entertaining there and often tries to mingle drama into his surreal films. Maybe he'd be better off directing real drama's without the sickness and perversion he so clearly employs in his films. It's just a thought though, cause as far as I'm concerned Miike does not work and this one I felt worked the least of the films I saw.

5,45 out of 10 (of which ,45 points are mainly for the ending which I thought was pretty funny; a 5 out of 10 was given upon voting though)
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