Year:
2002
Length: 119min
Role: Zero
Director:
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Alive
I've heard bad things
about this movie, but I also heard bad things about Godzilla:
Final Wars. I figured that if I could sit through Godzilla, I'd
probably make it through Alive. No pun intended.
If Tak is comparable to
Johnny Depp, then this would be his Edward Scissorhands...
except with more action, no personality, and a lot less screen
time. He looks just plain horrible here as a hybrid of human DNA
and an extraterrestrial Isomer. He does, however, get a decent
fight scene at the very end.
Most of the movie revolves around Tenshu
Yashiro, who is played by Hideo
Sakaki - Tak's nemesis from Versus. Many co-stars from
Versus make cameos here, especially those who played the Yakuza
members. But anyway, Tenshu is a death row inmate who survives
the electric chair and is then given a choice: die or become
part of a top secret experiment. He picks the latter. In the
experiment he is exposed to a parasitic Isomer that chooses its
host based on their desire to kill. Tenshu proves to be the most
bloodthirsty one in the room, gets possessed by the Isomer, and
gains Matrix-defying super powers.
The movie moves very slow and nothing happens for most of it,
but I did enjoy the flashes into Tenshu's past and the
psychological meddling of the Isomer.
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