Reviews

I really liked this little movie. It had a William Burroughs meets MTV feel to it. Stop motion animation is a beautiful medium and quickly fading, being replaced by mostly uninspired CGI work (I think it's that even stop motion animation is still a physical process, an arduous and miopic job that requires massive reserves of patience, CGI is, when you really break it down, just tapping buttons, feel free to disagree, but something wonderful happens when you have to put your whole being into telling a story).

What Ari Palitz has created with this short, is a timeless but very hip looking, almost stoner story with a serious more relevent message hidden also surrepticiously below the surface irreverence.

I really liked it and think that the film-makers should make a series of these films, and even consider a feature length production. Well done.

I caught this little film at a cast and crew screening, but haven't been able to locate it since. A great action and martial arts piece, skillfully directed and put together, a shame I can't rent or buy it anywhere. Try and see it!!

Saw this version after seeing and loving the original French version. Friedkins take is brave and personal, utterly uncompromising -- hara-kiri for mass audiences, but a gem for anyone craving something more challenging than the inane and completely thrill-less Macdonalds style action films we're being fed currently. Another person noted it as a cure for the sickness caused by watching too many films with drab CGI -- they're dead on.

The rope bridge sequence still baffles me, and I've worked on some of the biggest action pictures ever made.

Excellent film, just don't expect an easy ride!