Toshiaki Toyoda is a director I like. He's made some intereting films over the years and some real head scratchers- frequently at the same time. I don't always like his films but if nothing else they get me thinking.
This time out Toyoda has made an absolute head scratcher. Yes it has some magnificent moments, but there is a point, say about ten minutes in where you you're going to know if this is going to be on your best of the year list or the worst. No that isn't fair, it won't be on your worst of the year list because you probably will have fallen asleep.
The plot has a hit man being paid to kill a guru and to find one of his followers who disappeared. At some point a conch shell is blown and a trip into space ensues...and then there is a return to earth with people changing identities. You are either going to be on the film wavelength and love the heady discussion or you are going to call horse hockey. Personally I liked the head games up to a point until I realized that this was similar to the directors 2020 film DAY OF DESTRUCTION which threw a bunch of ideas out there and never quite connected them up.
Is it worth seeing? If you don't mind a film that is way better in the parts then as a whole. If you don't want mind games or narrative that doesn't come together stay away.
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