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Atsushi

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Atsushi

Lithuania
I Am a Hero japanese movie review
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I Am a Hero
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by Atsushi
Jul 27, 2021
Completed
Overall 7.0
Story 6.5
Acting/Cast 7.5
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 3.5

Unintended dark comedy

And it's overhyped.

The main problem I have with this movie is the weak characterization of our main leads. A loser, a high school girl, and a nurse. Some side characters too, but damn they all felt generic. We don't even know their "wants", the only "want" we know is our main lead's - to be a hero (and it's just because his name is Hideo, rather shallow, no?)

We are supposed to care about our cast and feel suspense once they are dealing with zombies. But viewers in 30 minutes will understand that our main character is lucky beyond repair and unrelatable.

The way they treated women characters in this...It baffles me. Even if they had fighting potential we didn't see them in action.

A generic zombie story, with great special effects and cinematography. The zombies looked scary and disgusting, it was creative special effects makeup. Yet it felt like women were... sexualized...those angles.

Music, quick editing, and one-liners created a dark comedy. Surely it's hilarious when one zombie is spouting about deadlines and when another person is running like Jack Sparrow. As comedy and unintended parody of zombie movies, it is rather good.

The first half was more interesting than the second one. By the 70 minute mark, it started to feel a bit boring.

Don't expect Train to Busan, perhaps it's more in tune with Peninsula (that one at least had one or two likable characters).






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