Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

MartinHafer I love Japanese films, so it was hardly surprising I tried this film. In many ways I really liked it and can't understand some of the reviews that were so hard on the movie--though I will admit, there are some plot problems now and again.The main character is the 17 year-old sister of a detective who is investigating a string of shootings. This girl, once she sees the composite photo of the suspect thinks it's the strange guy she saw on the subway. BUT (and here we come to my biggest complaint about the movie), she decides to look for the guy himself instead of telling her brother!! This reminds me of the stupid teenagers in slasher movies that decide to check and see if the guy in the hockey mask REALLY is dead--instead of just running away!!! However, she is lucky that although he IS the guy in question, he isn't exactly that dangerous. I liked this part a lot--particularly the twists that occur that make you realize you haven't exactly been seeing what you thought you saw. This was pretty clever.By the way, if you do watch this movie, do NOT watch it because Beat Takeshi is in it. He's only in a small role and is barely in the movie at all.One final comment, this movie is like "suspense-Lite"--not the deepest or most suspenseful movie with a strong edge towards the younger audience. This also keeps the movie from rising to the next level though its freshness and originality help it to rise slightly above the norm.

sebastian_goofy This movie is of course about a killer. A killer that misses his target by intention. But this movie is beyond this plot something else: It is the movie that is the best expression of the "Techno-Culture" (the style "Techno", of electronic music) i ever saw.I'm not talking about the culture as it is seen from outside- people that are said to be (and often are) using synthetical drugs to dance the whole night to "stupid" music. I'm talking about what Techno is like, the feelings we had, why we listened to Techno.This movie is about a boy, who wants to change the people in the world he lives in. Not in big means, just in small steps. In what he can reach. And he wants to do so in a (somehow) peaceful way. Also, it has some incredible beautiful scenes, scattered throughout it- like the faint moments of beauty in the monotone beat. There is some kind of a monotone background as you see the masses of concrete, the city with the crowds going to work or returning home, where these beautiful moments are scattered upon in a chaotic manner.So do we feel, like the movie: Lost in that chaotic world, emotionless and grey as concrete, drifting through our life. Sometimes, we see the beauty, in nature, in the eyes of our girlfriend, or hear it in the music, or just feel it. And we want to change the world to something better, at least where we can achieve it, in a subtle way.This movie feels like the morning when you danced through the night before, lost in the music. When you go outside, climb up from the club to the streets, the sun already risen, and the people doing their business, and you are completely lost in that world- and you feel the beauty of life. When you see the beauty of this morning, and you know all the people surrounding you could see it too, if they were awake. This is what Techno feels like. Nothing more. But nothing less.

dtt This movie was something that struck me almost as powerful as F***ing Åmål (Show me Love), which I saw the week before. It's a really sweet lovestory, with the one of the best endings I've ever seen, it has to be seen, it's unexplainable. The "shooting-guy" is just too cool, he designs videogames and has thousands of 12"-clubrecords. The girl is too pretty, it's almost annoying. The music in the film is so fat and so suggestive and most important, so F***ING swell and trendy and perfect it's unbelievable. And, of course, you can't buy it with english text anywhere on the net. Some b**ody sod stole my videotape with it. In a bl***in hospital!!!Anyway, if you ever get a chance to see this movie, do so. It's strange, but if you're normally intelligent, that wouldn't be too much of a problem.

TOX When I saw the first scenes I had other Japanese movies ( e.g. Hanabi ) in my mind. I was somewhat disappointed because this is a French love film more like "Salt on our Skin" or Episodes of the Three Colors Trilogy. This means no violence, no action. In the end I came to like the film for exactly this fact.My recommendation: watch this film with the one you love, so you have got something to do during the lengthy parts.