Review of Ichi the Killer (2001) by Sora S — 11 Apr 2010

The content in this Miike film was pretty shocking. I am surprised he even helped in some of it. This film was non stop messed up. All the characters were completely out of whack. I will admit, I did like some of the characters.

Tadanobu Asano was probably my favorite character in the film. He was so mentally disturbed and loved to hurt himself. His forms of torture was pretty crazy too. Nao Omori was half and half for me. I liked the look of his character, but I didn't like what he was about.

Actually a really close second on my list of characters would have to be played by Suzuki Matsuo. He actually played twins. But what I liked is how they seems normal at parts, but were actually really just as disturbed as Asano's character.

Also of disturbing scenes in this movie and a really stupid story. But for the most part I really stayed interested in the film since the characters were so off the wall. But not one of Miike's bests by far.