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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 "It aint the same ole, same ole." But it takes its cues from 'em. The reviewer (dude) who said this flick was not a combination of Reservoir Dogs and Evil Dead was right. But the influence of those and other films of their genre give this fun (although long in the middle) flick its heart and soul. Kitamura has weaved together kung-fu, deadly zombies, decapitations, mutilations, some great bullet ballet, and plenty of humor, thrown in all on some very cliched criminal types, filmed it often at a frentic pace, and waited to see what would happen. Hey what happened was fun for all. The only negative comes from a big exposition slow down a little over half-way. And boy does he slam on the breaks. But when we finally get back to the action it's a hoot, and its way over the top. As usual the dubbing is only so good and detracts from what appear to be great scene chewing performances, but other than learning Japanese what a ya gonna do?? The commentary included here is funny at times but is very lacking in real information. The quality is not bad. Oh 0ne other thing, the ending had a twist a pretty good one. So enjoy. "Proof a low budget action movie can work!" Do you watch action movies for the intence story and deep personal relationships? I don't. But getting the money to make all the empire states building blow up takes money. So you get a producer and he says yeagh that would be sweet but we need Brad Pit and young hot chick #5 so people will come see it and I can get my money back. And if they do it in the movie even more people will come see it. Eventually everybody forgets what they are there to do: kick a whole bunch of ass. This movie says F***k it lets kick a whole lot of ass and then find some more ass and kick that too. This movie avoids icky storylines and relationships and has the balls to simply make one of the greatest fight movies ever. Some people call that a faul. I don't. That takes courage, guts, and a lot of blood. This movie born of a love for fight movies and in my oppinion is a work of genius. Get this movie and prepare to have your arse blown away. "A RUN THROUGH A FOREST . . ." That's what they should call this movie. Blaah . . I read so much good stuff about this movie. No one mentions that the background scenery doesn't change until the about the last 5 minutes. This is basically "Blair Witch" with martial arts in it. Go rent or buy some other movie . . All this movie is is people running through a forest. Then when they see eachother it's like " Hahaa!!! I found you! You must fight me real quick. . and then we will run again!!! Mwwahahaha!!!" Stupid movie. . Oh and the plot? Lmao . . it's kinda like there's one hamburger at the end of the forest and everyone is hungry . .try to imagine that lol "Eh.... I've seen worse" Not a horrible movie, jumps around a bit and doesn't make much sense most of the time but not too horrible. If you are looking for great stunts, awesome special effects, and Storm Riders type action... skip this movie, but if you want a run thru the jungle, kill all zombies type flick this isn't the worst of them. "Blood, gore, and a love story gone wrong..." Overall this movie was excellent. It actually had a plot line that was understandable unlike movies like Juon and the Ring, which seem to never answer your questions. Within the first two minutes someone is cut in half and blood is spurting. I think blood was spurting pretty much throughout this movie. Characters were all very well defined, more so than any other asian flick I've seen. Fight scenes made the matrix look like a slow motion joke and crouching tiger hidden dragon look like superman. Plus... they look like anime, but in real life. I never thought people could pull it off, but they do. Not sure if it was the lighting the director used or what, but was quite cool. Messed up ending, which leaves a sequel.