Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades

**“The true way of the warrior means to live by death.”
**
Meditative and philosophical. For the third installment in the Lone Wolf and Cub series, you get a quiet journey that explores the samurai code and Ogami’s moral dilemmas. It’s an interesting choice to go down that route now rather than saving it for the end.

Although it’s the slowest entry yet, there are a handful of phenomenal character moments, specifically the ending duel and how Ogami carries himself around Torizo. It’s really compelling stuff.

Man, I love these films. This is the weakest of the three so far, but it’s still really good. The level of quality between them is just absurd. Halfway done!

**“The true way of the warrior means to live by death.”
**
Meditative and philosophical. For the third installment in the Lone Wolf and Cub series, you get a quiet journey that explores the samurai code and Ogami’s moral dilemmas. It’s an interesting choice to go down that route now rather than saving it for the end.

Although it’s the slowest entry yet, there are a handful of phenomenal character moments, specifically the ending duel and how Ogami carries himself around Torizo. It’s really compelling stuff.

Man, I love these films. This is the weakest of the three so far, but it’s still really good. The level of quality between them is just absurd. Halfway done!

Lil' Daigoro is still extremely adorable. I hope he has a nice time walking The Demon Way in Hell with his pops.

Lil' Daigoro is still extremely adorable. I hope he has a nice time walking The Demon Way in Hell with his pops.

"The true way of the warrior is to live by death."

this has been my least favourite so far, the story wasn't as compelling as the last two but atleast it had some fun ass action. the soundtrack was as good as the last two, tbh the only thing lacking was the story. it was just very bland and it kinda reminded me of ur average samurai champloo episode without the vibe and fun fighting scenes. even so that's kinda what i wanted to watch these movies for so im NOT complaining. this review won't be as long because i feel like every entry of this franchise will just be me saying the same shit over and over and i rlly don't want that so im pretty sure every review after this will be short. the cinematography was as stunning as always, i love the shots of ogami walking away, this movie probably has the best character development for ogami as it's rlly starting to show his need for vengeance and how he's becoming a monster, yet he still shows so much care for his child it's great. i rlly liked the last fight and tbh it carried this movie, especially that last duel between ogami and kanbei and i thought the message ogami gave to him was rlly cool.

decent movie

"The true way of the warrior is to live by death."

this has been my least favourite so far, the story wasn't as compelling as the last two but atleast it had some fun ass action. the soundtrack was as good as the last two, tbh the only thing lacking was the story. it was just very bland and it kinda reminded me of ur average samurai champloo episode without the vibe and fun fighting scenes. even so that's kinda what i wanted to watch these movies for so im NOT complaining. this review won't be as long because i feel like every entry of this franchise will just be me saying the same shit over and over and i rlly don't want that so im pretty sure every review after this will be short. the cinematography was as stunning as always, i love the shots of ogami walking away, this movie probably has the best character development for ogami as it's rlly starting to show his need for vengeance and how he's becoming a monster, yet he still shows so much care for his child it's great. i rlly liked the last fight and tbh it carried this movie, especially that last duel between ogami and kanbei and i thought the message ogami gave to him was rlly cool.

decent movie

This is the final boss of third acts.

If you’re just any guy, this series of movies are for you. If you’re a girl, your boyfriend would really like these movies and would probably never shut up about them.

This is the final boss of third acts.

If you’re just any guy, this series of movies are for you. If you’re a girl, your boyfriend would really like these movies and would probably never shut up about them.

Barely net positive rating in my head bc this didn’t suck total ass and the ending banged and the music was pretty dam good too 

But fucking hell
More grossness 
Jaw droppingly so, and was so so far from any necessity
Other, worse films have reached similar contextual consequence with completely different scenarios 
If you want the story to go where it goes, use a different path to it 
Any other path 

This is why I’m about to be so dam harsh
I lose trust in the film when it pulls that shit out the bag
It felt like it enjoyed it, however ‘non-graphic’ it was, it spent time crafting that situation even though it could be so easily replaced with something else 

So it makes me really despise the bits I didn’t like 
Bc I can’t provide the benefit of the doubt for it yk


Otherwise it just hangs so long on empty moments and it’s so stunted and frustrating sometimes 

Action is edging closer to something really great but I mean seriously it’s doing the bare minimum 
Watch any other samurai film really that features a great big action sequence 
It’s better than this
Its ’iconic blood spurting’ is pretty bland too
I love the red red RED but it’s rarely done anywhere near as well at the Zatoichi films
Really nothing is 
These just lay ridiculously unflatteringly in those films shadow
Everything this tries to do, Ichi does better 
Even a father-son bond is done better with a stranger child in like 3 different Ichi films than this soulless relationship between these protagonists

It’s laughable how un-compelling and un-investing everything is
I wouldn’t critique these films so harshly on these more emotive components should is excel in what it was promised to: mindless slash and bang 
But it even does that pretty terribly if you ask me 
So then Im examining anything else it might be doing to figure out if thats maybe what they’re for 
It’s crazy it’s baffling 
And on top of that, I prefer more emotionally driven action - as we see in the Ichi films - but it’s never even deep in them either 
It’s a case by case light involvement in the story 
Here it just sucks 

I keep losing my train of thought bc it’s so easy to take the piss out of these

It skips everything I’d be interested in
How the fuck did they get a machine gun in the card off screen 
How did that pass 

Apart from when I hated it (and I really did at points) it was pretty great as well 
But it’s great at framing something to look cool for a bit 
Short form good filmmaking crammed into some soppy half assed business about some cool shit that is never done justice 

But the short form good filmmaking bangs when it bangs 

And that’s why I’m gna watch them all 
Aaaaand I just love my samurai films too much to deny myself the pleasure of having seen them all 
I love the formula 
I love the world
I love the ‘preset’ characters and how they can be filmed 
It’s just a case of seeing how different films treat these things I know I enjoy and love dearly
These aren’t pulling their weight so far 

That’s that

Barely net positive rating in my head bc this didn’t suck total ass and the ending banged and the music was pretty dam good too 

But fucking hell
More grossness 
Jaw droppingly so, and was so so far from any necessity
Other, worse films have reached similar contextual consequence with completely different scenarios 
If you want the story to go where it goes, use a different path to it 
Any other path 

This is why I’m about to be so dam harsh
I lose trust in the film when it pulls that shit out the bag
It felt like it enjoyed it, however ‘non-graphic’ it was, it spent time crafting that situation even though it could be so easily replaced with something else 

So it makes me really despise the bits I didn’t like 
Bc I can’t provide the benefit of the doubt for it yk


Otherwise it just hangs so long on empty moments and it’s so stunted and frustrating sometimes 

Action is edging closer to something really great but I mean seriously it’s doing the bare minimum 
Watch any other samurai film really that features a great big action sequence 
It’s better than this
Its ’iconic blood spurting’ is pretty bland too
I love the red red RED but it’s rarely done anywhere near as well at the Zatoichi films
Really nothing is 
These just lay ridiculously unflatteringly in those films shadow
Everything this tries to do, Ichi does better 
Even a father-son bond is done better with a stranger child in like 3 different Ichi films than this soulless relationship between these protagonists

It’s laughable how un-compelling and un-investing everything is
I wouldn’t critique these films so harshly on these more emotive components should is excel in what it was promised to: mindless slash and bang 
But it even does that pretty terribly if you ask me 
So then Im examining anything else it might be doing to figure out if thats maybe what they’re for 
It’s crazy it’s baffling 
And on top of that, I prefer more emotionally driven action - as we see in the Ichi films - but it’s never even deep in them either 
It’s a case by case light involvement in the story 
Here it just sucks 

I keep losing my train of thought bc it’s so easy to take the piss out of these

It skips everything I’d be interested in
How the fuck did they get a machine gun in the card off screen 
How did that pass 

Apart from when I hated it (and I really did at points) it was pretty great as well 
But it’s great at framing something to look cool for a bit 
Short form good filmmaking crammed into some soppy half assed business about some cool shit that is never done justice 

But the short form good filmmaking bangs when it bangs 

And that’s why I’m gna watch them all 
Aaaaand I just love my samurai films too much to deny myself the pleasure of having seen them all 
I love the formula 
I love the world
I love the ‘preset’ characters and how they can be filmed 
It’s just a case of seeing how different films treat these things I know I enjoy and love dearly
These aren’t pulling their weight so far 

That’s that