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Princess (2006)
It could never have been made as a live movie...
This is great anime for adults. The story moves you, affects you, so that you will remember it. It is like the hardcore Japanese manga anime stuff with over the top violence and gore, but also with lots of implied sick, twisted, disturbing things. It is truly cruel to watch. A lot of other things I watch are considered sick and disturbed but they never affected me. Princess did...
Sometimes real live film appears in the film, mainly when the characters watch TV. Maybe that is to make viewers more involved in the characters? But I feel the anime characters are more engaging. I do not think the movie gained anything by doing this. Especially the last 1 minute or so of live stuff should have been deleted.
The animations/drawings were great. Especially the lighting. The perspective in the lines were considerably unnatural, which was annoying for me. The characters were portrayed really well. The story was incredibly tragic and great.
I give it a 9 out of 10 if I pretend the last minute is gone.
The One (2001)
Well done, funny, action.
What can be better in a martial arts movie than Jet Li? TWO Jet Lis fighting eachother! It had some really inventive choreographies in the action scenes, and with a sense of humour! Like the bad Jet Li playing baseball with cops using a police motorcycle in each hand as bats! The effects were great too, and sometimes they reminded me of Shaolin Soccer. It also looked very nasty when they travelled between dimensions, and very painful to them as well. A funny part was that the dimensions that were very close to eachother had very similar events and relationships. They also had some funny jokes about that (pay attention to the presidents on TV). The climax fight sequence was very pretty with sparkles from machinery raining on them. The music was very dynamic; a good blend of orchestra film music and metal. In such a movie there is no point in dissecting it for deeper meaning. That is simply not the point. Relax and have fun.