Synopsis
In a world with no guns, a mysterious drifter, a bartender and a young samurai plot revenge against a ruthless leader and his army of thugs, headed by nine diverse and deadly assassins.
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Cast
- Josh HartnettThe Drifter
- Demi MooreAlexandra
- Woody HarrelsonThe Bartender
- Ron PerlmanNicola
- Gackt CamuiYoshi
- Shun SugataUncle
- Jordi MollàValentine
- Emily KaihoMomoko
- Kevin McKiddKiller 2
- Shahar SorekKiller No. 3 / Mirror Drifter
Recommandations
- 70
Village Voice
Insular and indulgent as it is, though, the movie is never less than a visual treat. - 50
The A.V. Club
Bunraku comes up frustratingly empty, and just as many of its elements simply bloat an overlong run time. (Demi Moore shows up seemingly to give the film more than one female speaking part.) It looks good, but Bunraku feels like a Frankenstein's monster of references that someone failed to animate. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Moshe, who wrote and directed, creates a boldly Expressionistic alternate reality to background this heavy-on-the-action story, but neglects narrative and character beyond the most basic strokes. - 40
Time Out
Bunraku aspires to be "Kill Bill: Vol 3"; it's more like an ornate pitch for a "Dick Tracy" reboot. - 38
Boston Globe
If Bunraku were serious about subverting or reinventing the genres it's cobbled together, Moore would play the gunslinger or the samurai or the crime boss. But no. All she gets are a couple of scenes that demonstrate that she still looks great soaking wet. - 30
Variety
It's a picture that's akin to a terrarium of plastic flowers -- gaudily decorative, but airless and lifeless. - 30
Los Angeles Times
No image or moment is grounded – every shot is augmented with restless animation, smart-ass narration or video game sounds. The artificiality of it all is smothering. - 30
The New York Times
Everything feels secondhand in Guy Moshe's Bunraku, a potpourri of genres that ends up a morass of clichés.
