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Versus (Director's Cut) Director: Ryuhei Kitamura Number of Items: 1 Format: Color Audience Rating: Unrated Studio: Media Blasters, Inc Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2003-07-29 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 93 Average rating: 3.5 "no heads and tails" well this is a fun movie. A wanna-be cult movie or horror movie (who cares) which turns into farce. I could make no heads or tails out of it except for the fact that the actress is extremely ugly and the actors are comic versions by their own right. Well to start with the story line - there is none at all - very sketchy - even soap operas have better story line. Deals with some souls (zombies) who are fighting some useless battle for years. Their choice of weapons vary but a samurai sword is a must. This is just making joke out of the Japanese culture. They hero and the villain (difficult to understand who is the villain) fight over this extremely ordinary looking gal who is suppose to have some "real" powers (lol). The dubbing is funny - it is so funny that can be compared to a comedy show. The most frequently used statement in the movie is - "what the hell are you saying man". Why can't they spend a couple of hundred dollars more on the dubbing? The good point is the cinematography and camera work - both are excellent. "Versus will stay with me always" I saw this movie about a year and a half ago before any American websites were catching on about it. I watched the first 20 minutes and was confused so I left and went to work. When I came home I had to finish it, there is nothing more rude than to not finish a movie because the filmmaker designed it to be watched all the way through. I loved it. It's RES DOGS meets THE EVIL DEAD. I read an above review that says they didn't understand it...well that's what makes it a good movie...YOU HAVE TO THINK!! It's not some piece of garbage lile an ADAM SANDLER movie (excluding Punch Drunk Love, which is brilliant). If you're a fan of asian cinema you should already have this in your collection with the region 2 format edition, but if you're new, pick it up...yu'll enjoy the ride. PLus if you like this check these out: BATTLE ROYAL, PRINCESS BLADE, RETURN of the LITTLE MATCH GIRL, VOLCANO HIGH SCHOOL, EQUILIBRIUM... "Excellent flick with a forced, heavy handed ending." I loved this movie. If Tarrantino made an asian inspired sword and sorcery epic with the design team from the first couple of Evil Dead movies it would be Versus. I'm not going to rehash plot here. A few reviews here on Amazon already go through the story almost scene by scene. The acting is passable, but we're not talking Shakespear here. The fight scenes are excellent, but what really made this movie memorable for me was the camera work. One school of thought is that if you notice the camera work in a film, the cinemetographer isn't doing their job. The first time I watched this flick I was so pulled in by the visuals that I wasn't even aware of the fact that I was watching a movie. I truly felt carried away by the film. However, when skipping through a few scenes I really enjoyed a couple of days later I noticed a very interesting tool used by the filmmakers. Each of the fight scenes is shot in a completely different manner. An early series of shots where we have no idea what is going on is patched together seemingly at random. Loads of quick edits get the viewer totally lost in the action. You really get the feeling that you're seeing the coolest moves and effects, but it's hyper-real and very confusing. At the end the camera pulls back just so we can see who is left standing and who is down. Later there is a sword fight between two principle characters that is shot in a very interesting manner. When the combatants are in motion, so is the camera. When they pause between attacks the camera does as well. Very effective. The only mis-step, in my opinion, is the hackneed ending. Where there are questionable motivations for all the characters involved and no one really even knows what side they are fighting for leaving a questionable ending would have suited me just fine. The epilogue feels tacked on at the request of a bunch of studio execs. Just turn the flick off when the last folks left alive get on the motorcycle and you'll feel like watching Versus was time well spent. "I HATE YOU" versus is a samurai-infused gangster flick with a heart. if you dont like it, you are probably a communist. i mean we're not expecting Schindler's List over here, are we? just buy it, and you'll love it, or you may not love it, but at least you bought it. if you liked bill and ted, you should but this movie. not that they're the same or similar, but i just think you should. peace. "what if Yuen Wo-Ping did this movie??? hmmmmmm" Prisoner KSC2-303 escapes with a fellow inmate and flees to an anonymous forest to a rendezvous with a group of men who will lead them to a safer place. When the men ultimately arrive with a female hostage in tow and with fueled by more sinister intentions, they kill his partner and KSC2-303 flees with the girl into the woods, which turn out to be the legendary "Forest Of Resurrection", one of 666 portals to "the other side". It's then a non-stop battle against the living dead and cunning assassins to simply stay alive, let alone find freedom. Although this movie showed about 20 or so minutes of zombie action (if you're expecting this to be a zombie film), it is still a very awsome movie. A very good plot, great effects, tight gore, great fight scenes and, everything you expect from a movie. Better than any Hollywood movie in my fact. Get it on DVD. This movie is a cross between EVIL DEAD and BLADE. BUY IT NOW! (some zombies) most entertaining part: THE COMBAT