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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★

  This movie has a trampoline fight and now I want all movies to have trampoline fights.

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  Review by arLopez ★★

  It's kinda, like, a martial arts action film — made to look like a stage production; but, mostly, it's the definition of all style and no substance.

  Fifteen year old me would've ate this shit up, tho'.

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  Review by Obistrike ★ 9

  A tirade of negativity towards Bunraku:

  •During the opening fight Emma asks when the real movie is going to start.
  •Its like in art class at school when your asked to create a vision of the future.
  •Emma thinks the Japanese lead with the ponytail and makeup is Demi Moore (best bit of the movie).
  •Cheap stage production, all filtered lights and preposterous posturing from actors that should know better.
  •Emma falls asleep. Lucky girl!
  •This score is a joke, right?
  •The caliber of cast should be embarrassed. Hartnett is a jumbo joker for thinking he could pull this off and if Woody does one more shit eating reaction shot.
  •Ron and Demi were never destined to be in a…

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  Review by DaveMcWhopper ★★★½ 2

  Panned at time of release and a box office failure, Bunraku is the kind of bloated visual comic book feast with A-listers hamming it up that general audiences have come to embrace a lot more in recent years. I’m sure if it were released today, the reception would be a lot more forgiving.

  For me, Bunraku is a movie caught between two worlds, neither which it ever fully commits itself to. The first is a precision piece of pop art where every moment is a museum installation. The second is a pulpy tale of gangland intrigue. All too often the film will lose itself in these displays of origami opulence, forgetting it has a story to tell, and when it…

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  Review by blaire ♡ ★★★

  it’s like a baby sensory video

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  Review by maneleeo ★★★

  A film that pushes a lot for its look and not for its logic. The film is very nonsensical at times, but that's the fun of it.

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  Review by Ryg4r ★★★★ 1

  This is my PSA to every letterboxd user: WATCH THIS MOVIE.

  It has all the style, craft, and talent to be a genre trailblazer like Sin City or The Fall, if only anyone knew it existed. It's so fun, so high octane, so aesthetically pleasing, with an incredible soundtrack that the story doesn't even really matter. It's about gangs fighting for territory or something, who really cares. You'll get it, it's a vibe. We get a stacked cast: Josh Hartnett, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Ron Pearlman, and even Gackt are absolutely killing it here. Bunraku is a seriously underrated popcorn flick, and an A-1 hidden gem.

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  Review by PrinceyMovies ★★★★½

  That poker game was intense.

  Also I loved that the Japanese subs were shown in like a comic like font and design.

  
  THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY, BUT MAKE IT NEO NOIR! A CHARACTER WITH NO NAME IS ALWAYS GOOD SHEEESH. 🔥

  Josh Hartnett, salute BAYBAY.

  Good, Bad and the ugly meets Sin City, Sin City because of the visuals, very cyberpunk coded environment. 🔥

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  Review by Travis Willock ★★★★

  Don't let this film's final resting place in your local bargain bin deter you from quite the cinematic experience. Bunraku is a stylized eccentric tale of revenge in a world without guns populated by actors who probably deserve better treatment but look like they're having just the right amount of fun. There's a few standout sequences in Bunraku but nearly everything works here, excellent cinematography, great set design and fast paced action. My only gripe is how the narrator will pop in from time to time, it's jarring, off putting and cheesy all at once. Still, this is a great film and WELL worth the George Washington I spent.

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  Review by ♡ T33thy ♡ ★★★★ 2

  If I have bad taste for liking Bunraku than so be it. This is exactly my brand of stylistic garbage!

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  Review by Oliver Paa ★★★

  Wer braucht Handlung wenn die Inszenierung stimmig ist? Zusammen mit Film_Sammlung und Justus. 

  
  Bunraku startet furios mit vielen visuellen Spielereien und coolen Kampfsequenzen, die zum Teil hochstehend inszeniert sind. Dazu ist eine hohe Stardichte am Start. Die übertun sich alle selbstredend nicht wirklich. Und ob Josh Hartnett hier als Lead gut gecastet ist, kann ich auch einen Tag später nicht mit voller Überzeugung beantworten. 

  Am meisten Spass hat man mit dem Film wenn man nicht zu viel auf Story und Dialoge setzt und sich eher an den anderen Feinheiten labt. Die Onetake Action-Setpieces sind kurz aber durchaus fein. Fast hätte ich höher gewertet aber gegen Ende hat sich dann alles etwas schwerfällig entwickelt. Ist halt alles bisweilen etwas gar Style over Substance. Dafür zeitweise durchaus sympathisch.

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  Review by rachel ★★★½ 1

  turns out the only thing you need to finally get back into your cinephile roots is a new josh hartnett obsession