Review of Returner (2002) by The M — 07 May 2008

I don't watch too many foreign films unless you count the occasional kung fu movie from China/Honk Kong but that's outside the usual. At a time I was interested in looking for foreign films after having attended a class that emphasized expressionist/impressionist impacts of allegory into film-making, a movie class essentially, and I ventured out to find some of my own in a more modern scope of the attempt.

My result was a $9.99 DVD I found while looking through a bookstore back in 2004, the only copy of it there and having lacking hopes I might be jipped of my mine, I was vastly mistaken. The story feels a little weak in originality but nowadays the Sci-Fi genre can only bridge so far involving time travel, aliens, robots, momentary action sequences involving shootouts and mayhem.

.. so it can get away with that; but it's the acting, cinematography and consistency this movie has that drew me in more and more and more till I literally exploded with amazement of how great a movie like this could actually exist.

I came with low expectations and was blown away by everything about it. Obviously there'll be some, if not alot, of people who will disagree, this is just my take on it... definitely one of my most favorite flicks.