Review of Sonatine

i gotta say i was a bit disappointed with this film. i thought i was in for a good yakuza film but a lot of it was plodding and dull. i understand and support the concept of adding a fresh perspective or something unexpected to a tired genre but in the case of the juxtaposing scenes of violence with scenes in which the mobsters play like children i simply found it distracting and wasteful. the movie centrally focuses on the main hero who is built up slowly through the movie but then any building tension is undermined by meaningless shenanigans. all of the other characters come of as even less then one dimensional, and the scenes of violence are filmed in a way that makes them look amateur night.

could have been better 5 out of ten