(2026 dir. Kirill Sokolov) Date Seen: April 28 2026
The way this movie conveyed the majority of its visual sense of humor through action was honestly far out, & all the bloody chaos somehow felt weirdly cathartic to watch.. kinda nutz how many fight scenes in recent moviedom draw from the fountainhead of that OLDBOY hallway scene; especially in tighter corridor-style set pieces like this movie's got. & while the choreography clearly shows a strong debt to THE RAID: REDEMPTION & its intense close-quarters combat 
--the actual sleek & dreamy way that action's stylized at times recalls the atmospheric flow of Massive Attack's hotel set “Karmacoma” music video (Glazer).
Some viewers might find THEY WILL KILL YOU's carefully composed Ozu frames within this toy train-set / dollhouse design ethos a bit overly precious or possibly even kitschy, but personally for me all that deliberate stylization feels less like affectation & more like a welcome assertion.
An actual visual perspective in a movie landscape too often dominated by formally unadventurous filmmaking. I personally find musical selections that are heavy on vocals distracting if misplaced or not well-timed in scenes, especially really fast rhyme spitting hip-hop (like a steady aural beat of stuttering gibberish). Some of those choices here majorly threw off my focus during fight scenes + sometimes the writing is a little too full of itself.. But overall I'd still say this one's a pretty fun & wild ride.
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