movie review - City Hunter
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Kokubunji, 2024.05.06
This is a live-action Japanese cop buddy movie that dispenses with one of the buddies fairly early on, leaving us with a smug, womanizing annoyance who feels like he stepped out of a piece filmed in the early eighties. Our hero, for want of a better word, sleazes his way through Shinjuku's underbelly, getting into situations that feel contrived and inauthentic. As he does this, the tone veers around the dial unpredictably. I honestly don't know what was going on with this but we packed it in about the two-thirds mark.
Not recommended.