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The Princess Blade Actors: Hideaki Ito, Yumiko Shaku, Yoichi Numata Director: Shinsuke Sato Number of Items: 1 Format: Color, Widescreen, Dolby Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Running Time: 95 minutes Studio: A.D. Vision Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2003-11-18 Buy from Amazon |
 "Boring beyond belief"Boredom...boredom..boredom. Some Japanese movies move to slow and are filled with nonsensical dialogue. This is one of those movies. The brief swordplay is interesting, yet the movie itself just couldn't keep my attention.  "very pleased"Much better than most female hero movies. I appreciated the fact that the romance wasn't the main point of the story, in fact it was quite understated. The action scenes were short but well worth it... alot of the ending moves were brilliant and unlike anything i've seen. Any talk of a sequel? How about Princess Blade vs. Kill Bill?  "Wasted potential thy name is Princess Blade."This modern remake of The Lady Snowblade is very thin. If you want an entertaining movie with quirky characters, lot's of jokes and a deep enthrauling storyline...well look at Versus or Samurai Fiction because I had been looking forward to PB for a while now and it really dissapointed. The movie has some amazing action set pieces for ten minutes in the begining and for ten minutes at the end. The action is thin and so are the characters, the love story was to weak for me and I'm a guy! I really wish it was better because it really could have been. I truly believe the japanese have the leg over the hong kong film industry in there ability to appease American audiences. But still, there are much more entertaining alternatives to this film. Now if you still want to see this despite my warnings, the film is not entirely without it's merits. It is beautifully shot, if not a little drab and depressing, and the action and the acting when it's put to work it works. "Unexpected Pleasure"At first I was very critical while watching this film; the quality of the picture; the acting; the camera work during the action scenes. But then something happened, I started to care about the main character. Then, even when I felt the action scenes could've been shot better, I got involved in them. I ended up really liking this film. It is slow in parts, but just to develop a story. I was surprised over all. I think it is worth renting. "SO CLOSE, AND YET SO FAR........"This film could have been so much more than it was. A fantasy film in which a future Japanese police state utilizes assassins who use swords, despite having 21st century technology. The patriarch of the assassins is scary looking, the heroine is very sexy in that school-girl innocent look that Japanese men love (what is it with Japanese men and their desire for very young girls in sailor-suit school uniforms?-a dread of comparison?), and it does have a tangible combination of visual texture and depth. But the actions scenes, despite Donnie Yen's guiding hand, are silly looking and bad to the point of laughable. Granted, he didn't have much to work with, and the actors involved didn't look as bad as spindly and stiff Keanu Reeves or Fat Larry Fishburne in the Matrix franchise, but there was just very little there to hold your attention. Try it if you're bored, but otherwise, you could do better in this genre, with something like Equilibrium with Christian Bale; better acting, better fights, and better directing. |
