Michael Hanake meets the Blair Witch Project in Kim Gok's Exhausted, a vicious kick in the pants to everyone in the audience, all in the name of "style." A man meets a mute woman, and as any reasonable person would do in such a situation, makes her his prostitute. But the pimping is the least of our problems. As we get exhausted by the grainy faux-16mm camerawork, the film gets increasingly deranged. The closest thing we get to a sympathetic character is the pimp, simply because he's got too much self-respect to fuck a mute whore. Everyone else is either a gory mess, or a gory mess in disguise. Even the prostitute, which even a thug like Lars von Trier would make likeable, comes off as a delirious scary woman whose shrieks strike like blows to the jugular.
Kim Gok has seemingly abandoned the Marxist critiques of his short films, going instead for mindless brutality which culminates in an endless bloody freak-show involving, among other things, a pair of scissors going where pairs of scissors should not go. In the middle of the bloodbath, we get an extended long take of the beaten prostitute's near-dead face, but it does not elicit sympathy or pity. In fact, images of the victim only make us shy away in shock. (Indeed, the extended sequence led to continuous walk-outs during the Pusan screening.) The long take invites us to stare, but it assumes we're as sadistic as the victimizer (and the film) is. Meanwhile the sound-effects (mostly a rumbling bassline that shakes the theater) pulsates with pure wickedness. With Hanake, shock creates reflection, which asks that we be critical. Here, we only want to escape. I suppose Exhausted has some virtues; the shots of drilling machines and factories provide a mesmerizing phallic backdrop to the pimp and prostitute's pursuits. But everything else hurts too much. At least Kim Ki-duk lets us breathe. Exhausted makes Bad Guy look like Lady and the Tramp. (asiaarts.ucla.edu)
唯一一部拔刀即见血 但是太少咯 ps竟然不把激情戏拍出来
巴给剑心刻的第二刀痕迹怎么跟剑心脸上的对不上
一个时代的挽歌，一种无望的孤勇，满足了我曾经对于九州系列故事的场景幻想。
打斗场面真的绝赞。最后战歌响起，新时代到来，依然鲜血淋漓。
浪客剑心系列的文戏实际上都比较一般，最突出的是武打戏，而在这一部，原著全本最具有情感冲击力的故事中，大友启史终于做出了抉择，武戏减少，文戏增多，处理得也可圈可点，至少不算差。另外作为前传，剑心终于用上了刀刃，刀刀见血，着实爽快。4星。
平庸至极
但同样搞不太懂的是，这个事情是不是真的很有必要去说明白呢？
话说，韩国、越南等拍武侠都会学香港，好莱坞也因为袁和平等一度有不少动作设计偏向武侠。但日本还是偏重“真实”感，他们的武士片并没有华语电影式的武侠化，不会飞来飞去。又气功什么的。
剧本不错，摄影、灯光、道具、场景都美到极致，佐藤健演得很好。本片的动作戏真漂亮。
水准又回来了，不，是大大超过预期。砂糖一如既往地帅，村花演绎的情感细腻，高桥很适合桂这种复杂性的人物。
即使抱着很高的期待值去看，也不会很失望。冷色调营造的时代沧桑感，系列最写实和最冷峻的血腥场景，还有“一切尽在不言中”的眉目传情，都让本作成为了完成度最高的漫改（没有之一）。也许作为动作电影，剧情逻辑细推还有不少问题（反派嘴遁不下死手太经典了），但是作为爱情片，已经足够浪漫了。
以及
真人版放弃了漫画中轻松散淡的一面，突出剑心的沉重内敛，追忆篇的悲剧氛围倒是相当贴合，情节也更集中紧凑，可惜还是没能避免日式闪回癌这一绝症——那么问题来了，洼田正孝吐血的镜头总共用了多少遍？
我不是攻击演员哈，雪代巴选角感觉不太对，巴应该比剑心年龄大，不应该是脸比剑心大啊😂
系列最佳，没了那些奇形怪状的二次元造型角色，总算有点时代剧的样子；谷垣健治这一集的动作戏亦属系列最佳，总算见血了，几段刺杀拍得迅猛凌厉，血浆飞溅那个爽快，徐克什么的真该跟他合作一把。可惜导演功力还是不大行，没拍出那种历史潮流中被政客以远大理想之名操控充当杀戮武器的工具人的悲哀，爱情戏也没弄好。村花自身气质偏暖，没演出雪代巴的清冷御姐范。冲田总司那发型入选年度tony奖。3.5
原作得是初中时候看的了，真人电影也算是圆满结束，这部比人诛篇明显剧情充实多了，但村花实在不是我心中雪代巴的样子……
动作戏精彩。武士、女人不过都是被政治家利用而已。
演职人员表里面还有武井咲害我期待到最后一秒，我要看甜甜的恋爱o(o･`з･´o)ﾉ不要悲伤!佐藤健真是个大帅比。最后房子烧起来意识到这个系列真结束了，有点不舍
（一声“对不起，我的夫君”，一语双关。）
一段凄美的虐恋改变了男主的内心，十字刀疤的痕迹铭记着爱人的逝去。
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