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If you are looking for a great story, look elsewhere, as this has just the thinnest of story to accompany fantastic visuals.

The is the first feature-length film worldwide to be shot with hi-def cameras. It is a visual stunner with visual effects by Pascal Giroux (The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc). The film itself is fast, due to the frantic editing, and sometimes hard to follow, but a treat to experience 1830s Paris with opium dens, drugged virgins piled on top of one another, and offices and laboratories of a scale and complexity that boggle the imagination.

It is based upon a true French detective, who was the model for more famous detectives, and involves the hunt for a masked martial arts master that apparently sucks in the souls of it's victims. The is, apparently, basis for this type of monster in Japanese folklore.

The ending is just incredible and, like the entire film, a visual treat, but the story will leave you unsatisfied.