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Dead or Alive: Final (2002)

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Reviews Counted: 10

Fresh: 4

Rotten:6

Average Rating: 4.6/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 88 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Nov 29, 2002 Limited

Synopsis: In the brilliant final installment in his DEAD OR ALIVE series, Takashi Miike crafts the story of a fearless cop who must save his son when an underworld consort of criminals and rebels accidently... In the brilliant final installment in his DEAD OR ALIVE series, Takashi Miike crafts the story of a fearless cop who must save his son when an underworld consort of criminals and rebels accidently kidnap him. In a post-apocalyptic Yokohama, a dictator rules the land and, among other terrible rules, forbids procreation. A loose resistance forms among the city's criminal element and a group of rebels, but when they take Honda's (Riki Takeuchi) son, they must deal with his vengeance. The only force holding back Honda is Ryo (Sho Aikawa), an android who has his own plans. The finale to the trilogy perhaps is the most brilliant of the three - commenting on the nature of life through its use of violence, humor, and liberal literary and film allusions. [More]

Starring: Sho Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Josie Ho, Terence Yin

Starring: Sho Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Josie Ho, Terence Yin

Director: Takashi Miike

Director: Takashi Miike
Screenwriter: Ichiro Ryu
Producer: Makoto Okada
Composer: Koji Endo
Studio: Kino International

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08/16/07
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a disappointing lo-fi sci-fi closer to an excellent trilogy - even if its climactic sequence is one of Miike's ballsiest.

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06/12/07
Anton Bitel
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12/23/02
AV Club

Stripped of Miike's usual flourishes, Final is an ugly-looking and often listless affair that only occasionally recaptures the entertaining insanity of the first film.

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12/10/02
Ethan Alter
Film Journal International

The film seems all but destined to pop up on a television screen in the background of a scene in a future Quentin Tarantino picture

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12/03/02
Jason Clark
Premiere Magazine

Menace lowers at all points, but nothing develops; little is followed through on, and one finally does not care at all.

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12/01/02
Donald J. Levit
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Though the violence is far less sadistic than usual, the film is typical Miike: fast, furious and full of off-the-cuff imaginative flourishes.

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11/29/02
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Although some viewers will not be able to stomach so much tongue-in-cheek weirdness, those who do will have found a cult favorite to enjoy for a lifetime.

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11/29/02
Bilge Ebiri
Citysearch

Alternating between facetious comic parody and pulp melodrama, this smart-aleck movie ... tosses around some intriguing questions about the difference between human and android life.

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11/29/02
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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Plods along, minus the twisted humor and eye-popping visuals that have made Miike ... a cult hero.

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11/29/02
V.A. Musetto
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Scene-by-scene, things happen, but you'd be hard-pressed to say what or why.

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11/26/02
Michael Atkinson
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