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Title: Way, way too much inside baseball stuff here to be much good.
Review: This movie is an adaptation of a Japanese comic book. Miike has done this before quite well (e.g. Osaka tough guys and the brilliant Fudoh The Next Generation). Unfortunately, this one fails as a movie because, unless one has read the comic book (I haven't) the story is going to make little sense and the over the top stuff that makes a comic book fun makes the movies feel plastic and unreal.The movie does have a lot of stuff that will appeal to the adolescent male, the target audience, the problem is that it should leave everyone else feeling a bit cold.I turned it off about midway through, just couldn't sit through it, not worth the time. Not worth yours either, unless you are a male between the ages of nine and fifteen and/or a manga reader (about the same demographic).Love the director, hated this movie.
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