THE WARRIOR'S WAY (2010) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Sngmoo Lee
Dong-gun Jang, Kate Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush,
Danny Huston, Tony Cox, Lung Ti
A samurai spaghetti western about a master swordsman who wanders into a baroque frontier hellhole inhabited by a few grimy settlers and a broken-down carnival. So there's a little Fellini, a little Mad Max, a little Hawks, a little Eastwood, parts snatched from a hundred different sources, all pitched into this hyperviolent dream. Geoffrey Rush plays the town drunk, Dean Martin being no longer available. Kate Bosworth channels Hilary Swank as a plucky young woman who's good with a knife. Dong-gun Jang as the warrior slices and dices the bad guys and looks real cool doing it. Danny Huston oozes vileness as the outlaw leader. The colors are vivid. The music is knockoff Morricone. The believability quotient is zero, but then, dreams aren't required to play by the rules, or even make sense. Filmed in New Zealand.
