The last fighting sequence wasn’t blowing but it delivered a nice punch after all.

Let’s not forget the near-disappearance of black humour – which I clearly don’t blame Toyoda for it. To some extent, most of them were heavy to watch especially with the obvious lack of fighting scenes they became utterly irrelevant to the film’s development. At the matter of fact, few of them were just used to fill the running time instead of building characters’ back stories. Thus, many feelings couldn’t get pass the screen barrier to reach the watcher’s heart.Ĭrows Explode narrative pattern was composed of several side stories that didn’t serve any meaning at times. Although Toyoda tried to focus on the human emotions between his characters, he didn’t exploit his main leads’ potential to the fullest. However, the fighting sequences to reach that objective were surprisingly demure and repetitive in a worrisome way. The fight to become Suzuran’s top leader was still used as the main thread to drive the plot. To make things clear, this film had too many similarities with its famed prequels. Crows Explode leaned to the realistic side way too much which was a bit wrong in my opinion don’t get the wrong idea, immersing the characters and fighting scenes in realism didn’t sound like a bad treat but when it’s over-done with this type of film then things are bound to become bothersome. After all, two different directors have entirely dissimilar way of making their pictures. That being said, I never expected Toyoda to do the same. But after viewing it, I can clearly state that it falls behind compared to its prequels.īeing a fan of Miike’s filmmaking, it was unavoidable to miss the highlighted foolish characterization, extreme violence and hilarious black humour inserted everywhere. Rewatch Value 3.0 Despite the absence of Miike, Oguri Shun, Yamada Takayuki and the rest of the amazing crew, I never actually held previous prejudices on Crows Explode.

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