Legitimately painful to get through. Awful all around the board besides semi-decent interactions between the main guy and girl in the story. Absolutely awful.

Legitimately painful to get through. Awful all around the board besides semi-decent interactions between the main guy and girl in the story. Absolutely awful.

A post-Matrix take on Léon that unfortunately suffers from a lack of action and atmosphere that make the films it takes inspiration from so fun to watch. There's plenty of stuff to enjoy here, but you can truly see how far Yamazaki has come as a director when viewed in comparison to almost any of his other work. Weirdly enough there's a lot of DNA here that reminded me of his Yamato adaptation that came out almost a decade later, and not entirely in the parts that you would think. Though finding out this movie was about aliens about 30 minutes into watching it did not prepare me for the escalation to a scene where a child gives the baby from Eraserhead to the Bionicle armor wearing Covenant from Halo Combat Evolved before fading away on the helipad of an oil rig.

A post-Matrix take on Léon that unfortunately suffers from a lack of action and atmosphere that make the films it takes inspiration from so fun to watch. There's plenty of stuff to enjoy here, but you can truly see how far Yamazaki has come as a director when viewed in comparison to almost any of his other work. Weirdly enough there's a lot of DNA here that reminded me of his Yamato adaptation that came out almost a decade later, and not entirely in the parts that you would think. Though finding out this movie was about aliens about 30 minutes into watching it did not prepare me for the escalation to a scene where a child gives the baby from Eraserhead to the Bionicle armor wearing Covenant from Halo Combat Evolved before fading away on the helipad of an oil rig.

A post-Matrix take on Léon that unfortunately suffers from a lack of action and atmosphere that make the films it takes inspiration from so fun to watch. There's plenty of stuff to enjoy here, but you can truly see how far Yamazaki has come as a director when viewed in comparison to almost any of his other work. Weirdly enough there's a lot of DNA here that reminded me of his Yamato adaptation that came out almost a decade later, and not entirely in the parts that you would think. Though finding out this movie was about aliens about 30 minutes into watching it did not prepare me for the escalation to a scene where a child gives the baby from Eraserhead to the Bionicle armor wearing Covenant from Halo Combat Evolved before fading away on the helipad of an oil rig.

A post-Matrix take on Léon that unfortunately suffers from a lack of action and atmosphere that make the films it takes inspiration from so fun to watch. There's plenty of stuff to enjoy here, but you can truly see how far Yamazaki has come as a director when viewed in comparison to almost any of his other work. Weirdly enough there's a lot of DNA here that reminded me of his Yamato adaptation that came out almost a decade later, and not entirely in the parts that you would think. Though finding out this movie was about aliens about 30 minutes into watching it did not prepare me for the escalation to a scene where a child gives the baby from Eraserhead to the Bionicle armor wearing Covenant from Halo Combat Evolved before fading away on the helipad of an oil rig.

A post-Matrix take on Léon that unfortunately suffers from a lack of action and atmosphere that make the films it takes inspiration from so fun to watch. There's plenty of stuff to enjoy here, but you can truly see how far Yamazaki has come as a director when viewed in comparison to almost any of his other work. Weirdly enough there's a lot of DNA here that reminded me of his Yamato adaptation that came out almost a decade later, and not entirely in the parts that you would think. Though finding out this movie was about aliens about 30 minutes into watching it did not prepare me for the escalation to a scene where a child gives the baby from Eraserhead to the Bionicle armor wearing Covenant from Halo Combat Evolved before fading away on the helipad of an oil rig.

A post-Matrix take on Léon that unfortunately suffers from a lack of action and atmosphere that make the films it takes inspiration from so fun to watch. There's plenty of stuff to enjoy here, but you can truly see how far Yamazaki has come as a director when viewed in comparison to almost any of his other work. Weirdly enough there's a lot of DNA here that reminded me of his Yamato adaptation that came out almost a decade later, and not entirely in the parts that you would think. Though finding out this movie was about aliens about 30 minutes into watching it did not prepare me for the escalation to a scene where a child gives the baby from Eraserhead to the Bionicle armor wearing Covenant from Halo Combat Evolved before fading away on the helipad of an oil rig.

A post-Matrix take on Léon that unfortunately suffers from a lack of action and atmosphere that make the films it takes inspiration from so fun to watch. There's plenty of stuff to enjoy here, but you can truly see how far Yamazaki has come as a director when viewed in comparison to almost any of his other work. Weirdly enough there's a lot of DNA here that reminded me of his Yamato adaptation that came out almost a decade later, and not entirely in the parts that you would think. Though finding out this movie was about aliens about 30 minutes into watching it did not prepare me for the escalation to a scene where a child gives the baby from Eraserhead to the Bionicle armor wearing Covenant from Halo Combat Evolved before fading away on the helipad of an oil rig.

A post-Matrix take on Léon that unfortunately suffers from a lack of action and atmosphere that make the films it takes inspiration from so fun to watch. There's plenty of stuff to enjoy here, but you can truly see how far Yamazaki has come as a director when viewed in comparison to almost any of his other work. Weirdly enough there's a lot of DNA here that reminded me of his Yamato adaptation that came out almost a decade later, and not entirely in the parts that you would think. Though finding out this movie was about aliens about 30 minutes into watching it did not prepare me for the escalation to a scene where a child gives the baby from Eraserhead to the Bionicle armor wearing Covenant from Halo Combat Evolved before fading away on the helipad of an oil rig.