About this episode
The episode reviews the 2016 military action thriller 'Re:Born' starring Tak Sakaguchi, focusing on its action sequences and lack of emotional depth.
Re:born is a 2016 military action thriller starring Tak Sakaguchi as the impassively stone faced killer, Ghost, who seems incapable of showing emotion whether on the surface, inside, on or off camera. Featuring a very healthy dose of kinetic and frenetic action with amazing stuntwork, great choreography and visceral kills, the lack of plot barely gets in the way of an entertaining watch. You might not care about anyone you’re watching but they’re doing cool stuff. In fact, the movie takes no effort to tell you who these people are what any of them actually wants, other than dramatically declaring they want to bleed, or their blood is dry, or vaguely and suggestively ‘I want you’, but if you can withstand the barren waste of emotion its not a bad sizzle real of good fights.
People in this episode
Host: Asian Action Cast
Topics covered
- military action
- thriller
- stuntwork
- choreography
- entertainment
Keywords
- Re:Born
- Tak Sakaguchi
- action thriller
- stuntwork
- choreography
- visceral kills
- entertaining watch
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Re:Born
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