They travel in packs giving the standard whistle for more of their kind to join in the hunt for money, guns and whatever they can loot off their victims as they brutally beat them to bloody pulps. They leap and bound from city structures like parkour artists on adrenaline. There is apparently a roaming gang of feral humans that seem to be lost on their way to the set of Mad Max. The movie never gives us that satisfactory moment where a gangster is wounded by one of these bullets, corners Sawa with a deadly assurance of her demise and loses a limb from the explosion.īut the a-typical mafia men in tacky suits are not the only opponents she has to deal with. This director is actually seeking tension in if a dead body can get deader. The music swells as the beeping of the bullet lodged in the corpse grows faster until there is a bloody explosions. The bullet is apparently strong enough to put a baseball-sized hole through the victim’s blocking hand, but not enough to blow away his skull. In the opening scene, Sawa puts a bullet in the brain of her lasted perverted catch of the day in an elevator. This sounds like it would make for some neat kills, but we never see any of them since she aims directly for the head killing the gangsters instantly. Her weapon of choice is a bulky pistol that fires bullets with a timed explosive charge upon impact. But, surprise, she murders them with skill just before they do the deed. She poses as a prostitute in her boldly colored wig and lures the men in with her sexual offerings. Our protagonist is the young vigilante Sawa (India Eisley), fighting her one-woman war against the flesh dealers to avenge her dead parents. I guess that backdrop makes the abundance of mobsters and nightclubs more acceptable.
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It seems like a more likely future free of robots and holograms, but most of the setting sounds like the present even without the economic crash.
The world has just suffered an economic collapse and society has crumbled to a world of flesh cartels and vicious gangs. The setting seems to have shifted from Japan to South Africa (never stated, but that’s where it was filmed). In reality, it’s a bland mess of an action picture drowned in cliché and confusion.
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Perhaps the producers of the Kite remake somehow thought that the talent would come full circle. Tracing its inspiration, an obvious suspect would be Luc Besson’s Leon The Professional, a sub-par American remake of Besson’s superior action picture La Femme Nakita. So disturbingly pedophelic were these sexual encounters that the general release had to be edited down severely with the “director’s cut” being released under a pornography affiliate. The original source material was a one-hour, over-the-top action romp with ridiculously violent fights and overly graphic sex scenes. Of all the Japanese animated movies to adapt for a live-action presentation, Kite confuses me.
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