Dragonhead
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Features
• Color
• Dolby
• Dubbed
• Subtitled
• Widescreen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 01 January, 2003
DVD Release : 27 September, 2005 |
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Dragonhead Customer Reviews
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Quite possibly the worst film known to man, woman or child.
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I am a sucker for post-apocalyptic event films. I think it is because Planet of the Apes was the first film I remember having an impact on me in my formative years. I avoid most Hollywood pap, but find my pulse racing when titles like Deep Impact and The Day After Tomorrow appear. So when I went in the video shop and saw the front cover of Dragon Head, with the bullet train nose-cone sticking out of the earth a-la the Statue of Liberty in Apes, I immediately snapped it up.
What a waste of 400 yen. No story, no character development, poor effects, and a male lead who wanders about clueless from start to finish. Most bad films leave you bored or listless; with Dragon Head, I was shouting at the TV screen, it was so mind-numbingly stupid. Some kind of apocalyptic event has taken place while the protagonist was riding the train. What is this event? How did it come about? We are never told. How do the surviving male and female high school pupils come to terms with this event? They don't. How do they grow, mature and change through the film? They don't. They just wander from one bizarre scenario to the next (from a town where the youth have turned on their elders, to a bunker where everyone is eating drugged food) without any causal relationship between the stages of their journey or the events they encounter there. I suppose some kind of Lord of the Flies metaphor is implied by the boy-savage who menaces the leads in the first third, but without connecting this to WHY civilisation has ended and WHY people are reacting the way they are, the message goes nowhere.
A script as poor as this should never, ever have been made. What is going on in the Japanese cinema industry when rubbish like this gets an international DVD release while Swallowtail Butterfly can't be found? Sayaka is a good actress, but even she can't salvage this. This film has no saving graces. Not a single one one. It is over a year since I rented it, and I still feel like going back to the video store and asking for my money back.
It gets one star, because I am not allowed to give it zero. |
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