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Fist of the North Star Volume 1 Director: Tony Randel Number of Items: 1 Picture Format: Academy Ratio Format: Animated, Color Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Running Time: 210 minutes Studio: Anchor Bay Entertain Region Code: 1 Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2003-03-25 Buy from Amazon |
 "Fantastic Movie !"Is a great movie, perfect ambientation, perfect actors, perfect figthings, great effects. Iám a fan of the manga movie, and the comic of Buronsosn hara and the real movie are wonderfull, like the anime movie. The effects of the fightings of the manga are pefectly. Kenshiro is like i imagined in the manga.  "Holy Christ!"What is this! The anime was awful, but they decided to make a live action movie on the Fist of the Northstar. First of all, I think everybody should watch Trigun, and then I would like to see what you think of one of the worst anime's out there, Fist of the Northstar. The only cool part was with the Viking saying that he didn't believe in magic, and MAGICALLY turned into steel.  "Must Have For Manga Fans of The Movie"The Animation in this Fist of The North Star TV series is not the best. In fact they are pretty ridiculous. But if you look past this, it was after all made in the mid-1980s, the Disc contains 210 minutes of escapism (especially for Manga fans). It does have its moments especially when the animation freezes to announce Kenshiro's fighting moves. Excellent Stuff. The DVD contains the 1st 7 Episodes of the Series and can be viewed in both English dub and the original Japanese language. I would advise most people to watch it in English simply because the characters are Western and it looks strange/sounds strange in Japanese (with English subtitles). "1.5 good fights"This movie is pretty terrible, I saw it on the sci-fi channel, it's basically Cyborg. The name of this franchise proves Shakespeare's "rose is still a rose" quote wrong, if it was called Blood Fued or some other corny name no one would give a dang about it. The first fight Kenshiro gets into is the best, very stylized, the sparse sound effects make it more powerful. The .5 is a culmination of a combo here a kick there. Gary Daniels does this pretty wicked spinning side kick, but I have to critcize him for taking Van Dam's splits spin kick. I wouldn't even bother renting this though. Now that I think of it, I think Street Fighter was better than this. "Traditional Hollywood [garbage]"This is yet another poorly done martial arts movie. The acting (what acting?) is garbage. The plot is much the same. Also, being a blue-belt in Tae Kwon Do (Take my dough) and a green belt in ninjitsu (student of Stephen Hayes) I have a pretty good idea of what is and is not realistic in a fight. The martial arts used is standard Tae Kwon Do (mostly kicks; mostly for competition). So basically the fighting is completely unrealistic (when's the last time you saw someone throw a kick after the first 5 seconds of a fight?). This unrealistic fighting wouldn't be as bad for your suspension of disbelief if it wasn't for the ... plot and acting. If you want to see a similarly-themed movie that is at least slightly better I'd reccomend "Blood Sport". At least Van Damne has 2nd-rate acting skills which is still way over the abilities of any actors in this movie. |
