Super deadly killer with super human strenght, reflexes and what not starts a friendship with a girl that lives in the same apartment building where he lives. The mother of the girl is in trouble with the mob, the little girl is in danger, our hero awakes from his slumber and goes super saiyan level 4 and wrecks hell on mobsters.
That's about it, now, the problem is, among other things, how the protagonist is pretty much invincible. He gets the obligatory action cliché scene where they have to remove a bullet from him, but aside from that he destroys his enemies so easily there is little to no tension in the action sequences. The friendship between him and the girl is also rather dull and never feels very convincing, or engaging. Add a highly annoying stupid detective and you have a set of insipid characters. The action sequences range from decent to average, while there are some nice camera tricks here and there, one including a continuous shot going from inside a building to the street, other moments suffer from the jerky-camera syndrome of today's action cinema. Performances are also very painfully average.
Not really worth of the cult status some people are throwing to this one. OK to kill a rainy Saturday, but even so, you might just want to pick a better action movie.
That's about it, now, the problem is, among other things, how the protagonist is pretty much invincible. He gets the obligatory action cliché scene where they have to remove a bullet from him, but aside from that he destroys his enemies so easily there is little to no tension in the action sequences. The friendship between him and the girl is also rather dull and never feels very convincing, or engaging. Add a highly annoying stupid detective and you have a set of insipid characters. The action sequences range from decent to average, while there are some nice camera tricks here and there, one including a continuous shot going from inside a building to the street, other moments suffer from the jerky-camera syndrome of today's action cinema. Performances are also very painfully average.
Not really worth of the cult status some people are throwing to this one. OK to kill a rainy Saturday, but even so, you might just want to pick a better action movie.