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It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

I'll tell you why so serious

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Kaneshiro always seems to bring a different type of element to every movie he appears and Returner is no exception. Given the movie as ongoing action, but for the slow parts, he really lets his characters conflict show through and expresses it as effectively as possible. Especially with his interactions with the female lead, Milly which also helps lighten the mood when things get a little too intense.It was surprising to see that the actress that played Milly was a young teen girl while she acted roughly like she was in her later teens early twenties. But her maturity in certain scenes did seem to change every so often.

Lightweight but entertaining Japanese sci-fi flick that rips off about a dozen similar Hollywood movies made in the last couple of decades. I've watched a lot of rip-offs over the years and the ones I enjoy more are those that rip off multiple movies to create their own wild blends rather than those that slavishly copy the plot and style of one specific movie (such as the execrable REIGN IN DARKNESS, which copied THE MATRIX so heavily it was a total bore). RETURNER is a film that goes for quantity over quality, delivering a quite frankly bonkers plot that riffs on such movies as THE MATRIX (in the look, style and action), THE TERMINATOR (with the main character having travelled from the future to save the present) and STAR WARS (dodgy looking aliens are the enemy in this instance). Throw in some distinctly Japanese elements – nasty gangsters, cute bonding over rice – and you have a film that's difficult to describe.Of course, it's a triumph of style over substance, but that doesn't make it a bad movie. In fact, it's pretty entertaining, loaded with tons of action scenes and featuring a central twosome who are difficult to dislike. Takeshi Kaneshiro trades on his boyish charm as is the norm and Anne Suzuki proves an unexpectedly heartwarming saviour. There are a ton of CGI effects, some dodgy, some decent, but for the most part Returner gets by on just the kind of wild enthusiasm and imaginative effort you expect from Japanese cinema.

The first impression I had when watching this movie was "oh great, another SF movie that takes the most known themes from the genre (alien invasion, time travel, etc) and mixes it together" ... but when the movie was over, I felt the mix was successful and there wasn't a boring moment in the movie.The fact that this movie stars three good actors: Kaneshiro Takeshi, Suzuki An and Kishitani Goro is another good point. I especially enjoyed Kishitani's part as the main villain. He's a great actor who can pull off playing a villain as well as a hero.Special effects aren't extraordinary but well done and they blend in well with the scenes.Overall an enjoyable movie that I wouldn't mind re-watching

Ingredients:2 Parts E.T. 1 Part The Terminator 1 Part Indepedance Day Rind of The Matrix pretty much every action movie clichéTake all these ingredients into an editing suite, wait for several months, and when released... AVOID!!Yes as many know this movie pretty much rips off several action and pop culture films. What makes it worse is the fact that when the bland action subsides, and they try to engage the audience with some form of plot, it fails miserably. Many times i was bored with Takeshi and Anna's wooden, by the numbers performances; several times i checked how such was left to go. And even when i thought i had reached the end, it kept going, and going, and going. It gets a 2 purely for the fact it is Asia ripping off Western cinema (at least in theme) for once, instead of the opposite. Too bad it didn't prove that Asia does it better...