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Sorry, this movie sucks

So much average

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Blistering performances.

If this is considered good for Japanese movies Japan should never make another movie again. This thing sucked more than just about any other movie I have ever seen.It is possible the translations were off a little bit so I will say the English lines were stupid and laughable.The box said that they were time traveling ninja zombies, I have never seen ninjas wear suits and shoot guns but apparently they do.It felt like it was 4 hours long and I kept falling asleep so there is a chance I fell asleep during one or two good parts, but I doubt it, if you liked this movie I am sorry, I am sorry that you have no taste and probably live in your mother's basement and eat paste.

Some guys out filming in the woods with a camera and added zombies…no, it's not the latest in a long line of BLAIR WITCH derivatives, but instead another low-budget Japanese slice of mayhem that follows in the same undead vein as WILD ZERO and JUNK. VERSUS takes the flesh-eating dead from the Romero movies and transplants them slap-bang into the middle of a tale involving yakuza vendettas, escaped convicts and an age-old sorcerer with plans for immortality. If it sounds overbaked and half-crazy, that's because it is.I really like these low-budget Japanese movies as they have a tendency to overcome their budgetary constraints, making up for a lack of cash with an influx of creative energy. The last one I watched was a glorious Tarantino rip-off called SCORE. VERSUS follows the same formula, dishing up some familiar ingredients and giving them extra jolts of vitality which brings a storyline you might have seen before back to outrageous (un)life.The characters are crazed, larger than life creations and the actors go way above and beyond the call of duty in their roles, but somehow the over-the-top nature of the performances work. Ryuhei Kitamura keeps his cameras moving all over the place, creating novel shot after novel shot, and the (many) action sequences are elaborately staged and completely exhilarating. It's a real shame when you watch a movie with a budget hundreds of times larger than the one here making crucial mistakes, like dodgy shaky-cam scenes or fights that are just plain dull. VERSUS may be silly, cheesy and rough around the edges…but it's never dull!

Those crazy Chinese, they sure know how to make crazy films. I had a friend once who went to China- he said they didn't have cars but used dragons to drive about instead. Crazy! Especially as dragons are extinct. Versus isn't really a real film, it's really based on an assortment of fight em ups for the computer. Games such as Mortil Come Back World, Road Fighter 2: Championship Edition, and Streets Of Age. The crazy twist comes via the fact that we have not only humans fighting each other, but other creatures too- con men, vampires, weredogs, werecats, zomboids, Bagginses, people of the Aisle Of Man, Santa etc. The basic plot sees a Chinese mafia man re-stealing his girlfriend from a rival mafia man who had re-re-stolen her from the man who his re-stealing her from him. The baddie sends his most trusted warriors after the goodies in a progression of difficulty, starting with a brown belt unarmed amateur, working up through expert bearded swordsmen, giants, and Miyagi, all the way to entire platoons of tanks armed with nukes. Our hero is a decent fighter, but he can only take so much and is ripped to ribbons. Luckily though he is killed in an ancient Indian burial ground on a full moon and comes back as a zomboid. He then has to fight his way out of the Underworld against Medusa, Hitler, and Samuel Peyps only to try to re-re-re-rescue his girlfriend (who has been cheating on him with an Eskimo). Not a lot of the film made sense, especially the parts that weren't in English, and most of the effects and acting left much to be desired. I suppose I can't complain given that the film was made for 10 Yen, but when you see that Parannoying Actively was only made for 80 dollars there really is not excuse.Best Scene: When one of the bad guys is being kicked into the air you can see the string and pulley system being operated by a man in the trees in the background. If you freeze frame that part and zoom in you can see that it is none other than 1980s cast off Rick Moranis.

In the first Matrix, Morpheus says to Neo, "C'mon, stop trying to hit me and hit me!" Then, The Matrix went on to spawn an innumerable list of rip-offs and wannabes, including this over-long piece from Japan. All of those things that The Matrix influenced, however, including its own terrible sequels, seemed to have forgotten that line. Mindless action is fun, and has its place. It can also be incredibly frustrating when the sequences are without consequence. Even martial arts movies with terrible story lines at least have set-pieces that actually move the characters towards some objective. For most of the action in this movie, not so much. This is two hours of people in the woods fighting, and the director never seems to really want anyone to die, and even if they do he CERTAINLY wants to make sure he can fit in some more people to join the not-quite carnage.So here's the deal. It may be considered lazy reviewing to try and write a summary for a movie without figuring out what all of the groups involved in the story are, but in this case I pretty much consider it the point of my review that the specifics in this movie do not matter, at all. Some people arrive in a forest. Gangsters, cops, prison escapees, a female hostage, some necromancer semi-vampire eternal dead dude, and zombies. They all fight each other. The point is that this is some recurring, eternal conflict of good and evil, or at least two sides. The main prison escapee dude is the brother of the necromancer dude, and they have had this fight before, but this time around he's "changed" so he might be able to win (read: he's going to win). The female hostage is a seer with the blood of Resurrection that operates in the forest, the Forest of Resurrection, to resurrect things. These things are made clear with what Uwe Boll-like writing there is between the majority of the Michael Bay-like action scenes that drags the playlength of this movie to two hours (a full hour forty over its necessary playlength). I compare the writing to Uwe Boll because the same basic points are reiterated again and again and again, as if the audience has no ability to connect one revelation to another. "Oh this is the Forest of Resurrection, you say? Then this must be the Forest of Resurrection! And if it's the Forest of Resurrection, than those dead guys must be alive! Oh, so THAT'S why those dead guys are alive. Well since those dead guys are alive, we must be in the Forest of Resurrection. What's that, you say? Well it's where we are!" I compare the action to Michael Bay because it's way too in love with the boomerang cam, and because ninety percent of the movement and editing ultimately comes to the same end result: posturing.Let me put it this way: this movie should have been only forty minutes long, but it could have easily been just fifteen, if any character would actually pull the damn trigger or stab the other person when they actually had a chance. Instead, as soon as any character comes into the position to be eliminated, the person he's fighting against just grins and sneers in pleased victory. It was okay the first, erm, three or four times it happened. By a quarter of the way through the movie, however, there was no longer any excuse. If any of these people actually wanted to win the fight, they would have long beforehand. "Stop trying to hit me and hit me"--the motivations of all of the characters are shot when they're no longer fighting for any real reason but just 'cause, you know, they're in this forest thing, of Resurrection y'see, and, have to, do ... stuff. Meh. Roll out next action sequence! Oh, and the Resurrection and re-incarnation plot points pretty much guarantee that this whole thing will never, technically, end. Which becomes the point! Oh God, why?! Why watch a two hour long movie about mindless action scenes with no consequence only to have the point of it be that the action scenes are never supposed to end, it's just posturing for ever and ever and ever? Oh. 'Cause the action's neat. And, like, action-y and stuff. Alright.Not an entire waste of time, but you can honestly fast forward through the majority of this movie and miss nothing.--PolarisDiB