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10/29/05
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3 Extremes (2005)
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Reviews Counted:62
Fresh:52
Rotten:10
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: This anthology contains brutal, powerful horror stories by three of Asia's top directors.
Theatrical Release:Oct 28, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: THREE...EXTREMES brings together an Asian scream team of filmmakers, featuring a trio of short works by Hong Kong's Fruit Chan (DURIAN DURIAN), Korea's Chanwook Park (OLDBOY), and Japan's Takashi... [More]
Starring: Byung-hun Lee, Pauline Lau, Miriam Yeung, Star
Director: Fruit Chan, Chan Wook Park, Takashi Miike
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10/29/05
Title notwithstanding, Three . . . Extremes really offers only two. The first is one of nausea.
10/27/05
Another pulpy Creepshow movie would be more welcome than a second installment of this stiff stuff.
10/26/05
'Cut,' Park's contribution to Three... Extremes
10/29/05
All three look great and the filmmakers deliver a certain artiness, but their overall triviality and the unpleasantness of the first two make for an extremely distasteful experience.
10/27/05
The result falls somewhere between psychodrama and horror.
07/05/05
You can't watch these three mini-movies without wondering what you possibly can take from them, but there's warped creativity at work in all of them, and if you can separate talent from content, you'll see three very adventurous filmmakers at work.
10/28/05
Top CriticThis anthology is a mixed bag.
09/26/07
All the episodes are interesting and disturbing - perhaps too much so, without any clear reason for the audience to endure the suffering.
07/07/08
Three . . . Extremes will be a must-see only for fans of Asian horror, but it may also send some people looking for full-length films by these gifted filmmakers.
10/28/05
Top CriticFor those in the middle, fasten your seat belts for a bumpy ride -- narratively and artistically -- and don't go in on a full stomach.
10/28/05
This is not for the faint of heart, stomach or any other vital organ.
10/28/05
Ninety percent...is fun, but that fun is compromised by the 10 percent that isn't %u2013 i.e., the conclusions.
11/23/05
Asian horror like the new Three ... Extremes beats an American film like Saw II at its own game.
10/30/05
Top CriticMore than lives up to its name.
10/28/05
It has three stories, and each is extreme. Yet even literalism can be an understatement.
10/28/05
Top CriticThe Dumplings short may be hard to watch (not to mention stomach), but it's even harder to listen to without getting a major case of the heebie-jeebies.
10/28/05
Three Extremes would be better if it were Two Extremes.
10/27/05
Miike, known as Japanese cinema's bad-boy shock master, delivers the most textured, delicate and finely crafted episode of the bunch.
10/27/05
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