The description of this film (a police officer encounters a woman with a sword running around killing people) sounded dumb, but despite my better judgment, I wasted an hour and a half on this schlock. This film is by parts horror, suspense, and drama, and sadly fails at each one. The protagonist is Jakob, a somewhat mild mannered cop who is trying to deal with the rash of wolf attacks/sightings in his small town. He puts out meat for the wolf in an attempt to keep the wolves at bay (which as one man points out is stupid since what will happen when Jakob ceases to put the meat out). Little does Jakob know, but his putting out the meat has somehow summoned a man who dresses as a woman and has a long samurai sword with which he slices and dices up half the town it seems. Compounding the stupidity of the plot is the fact that Jakob gets a package in the mail which he nerves opens until he gets a phone call from a mysterious stranger who tells him the package is his. Jakob delivers the package in the middle of night to, you guessed it, the man/woman and the package contains the samurai sword. Half hour is spent with Jakob as he chases the sword wielding he/she (all without any other cops responding). The taunting dialog seems to suggest that at some point there will be some interesting revelation: maybe the samurai is Jakob's alter ego or something? But in the end, the denouement spirals into some homo erotic type of ambiguous ending that makes no sense. Anyhow, save yourself the time and agony and pass on this one.
Review of Der Samurai
