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Versus (Special Edition) Director: Ryuhei Kitamura Number of Items: 2 Format: Color, DTS Surround Sound Audience Rating: Unrated Studio: Media Blasters, Inc Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2003-08-19 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 93 Average rating: 3.5 "Good wholesome fun" This is a very fun and enjoyable movie. This is the type of movie that you put in the DVD player after feeling depressed after watching Schindlers List or if your having a tough time in your life. It moves fast and you don't have to put a lot of emotions into it. Just sit back and prepare to laugh at the violence that is thrown across the screen. Watching this movie reminds me of Riki-Oh or Meet the Feebles in the way that you can just relax and let all your troubles leave your mind for awhile and just let the greatness of this movie take you over. "Looks Awful, Good Story" A more accurate title for this film would have been "The Blair Matrix Project." It really brings up some serious issues and makes you think..."Could I have made this movie in my backyard with some friends when I was in highschool?" That being said if you can sit through the almost endless (and sometimes pointless) encounters of the main characters and make it to the final scene the movie becomes quite interesting. ""10 skinny guys doing Kung Fu fighting in a haunted forest"" "This movie is simply 2 hours of 10 skinny guys doing silly Kung Fu fighting in a haunted forrest." Thus spake another reviewer. And it is. So why haven't you rented it yet? How can you resist a tag line like that? There's more, though. For one thing, some girls go kung-fu, too. It's also got Matrix zombies with guns. And a crazy gangster in a sharp black suit. So watch it, why dontcha! It's still better than half the movies Hollywood will release in 2004! "R-rated version, Stinks!!" Watch out for the R rated Version, Why it exist? I have no idea seeing that the gore is just the same as Evil Dead, Riky Oh, or Army of darkness, it's funny. I rented the R rated version (not knowing) and it was cut.Scenes were badly clipped. It was so noticeable that it looked like a bad edited movie, thus I did not enjoy it to much. Let them shove the R rated version and avoid it! "Very Good Japanese Film" They tried hard (a little too hard in places) to be artsy and dramatic. What I liked most was that everything about it reminded me of a japanimation film-the characters especially, but also the storyline. My main complaint would be the english overdubs. A lot of people didn't like it from the reviews I read. If they were anime fans, however, I bet they would. The Japanese have a style all their own. It takes an open mind to appreciate that in spite of our spoiled hollywood conditioning.