Lack of good storyline.

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Sion Sono's 4-Hour Masterpiece .. Instantaneous classic .. Action, comedy, romance, martial-arts, religious undertones, and the art of panty shots .. Sono outdid himself with this oneA story about the meaning of love - both perverse and religious ----- M A J O R S P O I L E R A L E R T -----The Boy (Master Sinner): raised Catholic . Mother tasked him to find his Virgin Maria . Father goes to the dark side after being dumped by hooker . Boy commits "sins" to get his father's attention and love . Becomes a Master at Upskirt Panty photography , the ultimate sin of "Obscenity" . Becomes the guru sensei for a group of ambitious men . Loses bet and becomes Lady Scorpion for the day only to find his Maria his love ,,The Girl (Maria): Grows up hating men after being sexually-assaulted by father . Fights and confrontational on a regular basis . Falls in love with Lady Scorpion and believes she's a lesbian . Becomes the sister of Master Panty Shooter , whom she's groomed to hate by ,,Zero Church Recruiter Girl (Original Sinner): Insane since birth and recruited by a cultist leader "for her worthiness as an original sinner" . She too had an abusive father who's penis she severed . She falls in love with Master Panty Shooter and decides to bring him and his family into Zero Church . She poses as Miss Scorpion , seduces Maria , and exposes Master Panty's photo business . She kidnaps his girl and his family and makes them new recruits for the Zero Church ..To get the love of his life back, Master Panty Shooter goes undercover as a porno-cameraman and Zero Church recruit .. Only to one day set the bomb off in everybody's face10/10

This movie is perfection. Normally, even when I enjoy a movie, I'm ready for it to be over after about two and a half hours... I'm sure there is some psychological reason for this. Suffice it to say that this was not at all the case with this movie; in the almost four hour running time, there was literally only one five minute stretch where the pace slowed down. The remainder of the film is pure electricity, and touched on every emotion you could want in a movie... there's laughter in spades, there's action aplenty, and I challenge anyone not to tear up at the amazing ending. If you see only one movie about up-skirt panty-shot taking ninjas this year, make it this one.

For me, "Love Exposure" is something of a terrific one-off experience. How to begin to describe with any degree of rationality the extraordinary effect of bewildering excitement it has had on a near octogenarian, is a task I find daunting. And yet for a work unlike any other in its helter-skelter delivery of an adolescent's quest for romantic fulfilment ( which I suppose is what it is all about), I feel I should at least take up the challenge. With such an engagingly innocent central character as schoolboy Yu, it seems completely natural to suspend disbelief and go along with everything he experiences, including his hilarious initiation into the skills of a panty photographer, his role as father-confessor at a perverts' convention and his attack with explosives and much blood letting on the HQ of a brainwashing religious cult. Buried beneath it all there could well be many serious messages (you get a big chunk of Corinthians!) or it could be just a pile of tosh. But in the end, who cares, such is the delirious pleasure that just under four hours of outrageous goings-on have delivered. I suppose I just love the theme of innocent youngsters taking on the wicked world. Gosh! I am still reeling, my critical faculties all but shattered!

This was part of Film 4's recent 'Extreme Season' and it's easy to see why. Film critic and introducer to the film, Mark Kermode unravelled a whole heap of adjectives in trying to describe its virtues - and I think he only scraped the surface.Yes, we know by now that it's 4 hours long but with the requisite ad breaks, that bumps it up to five. Thus, the very thought of committing the time and effort to this huge chunk of one's valuable life is far worse than actually watching it. Due to other commitments, I had to undertake watching the recording in 3 manageable pieces, turning each into 'normal' film lengths.Lurching between high melodrama and lamenting ballad, Love Exposure IS a love story. But the most crazy, beautiful and fantastical one you've ever seen. Typically Japanese in going to extremes, at times modern fairytale and then extreme graphic violence almost at the turn of a hat.Somehow, strangely all the characters are endearing, especially the two central ones, Yu and Yoko. Yoko must have the sweetest smile I've ever seen, at times enticing, at others crying painfully. If you think though that this is just about emotional roller-coasting, there are some of the most striking story lines and stunts and ideas that have come from a fertile, imaginative and superb director, that mix martial arts with technology, religion with sex, perversion with love and much more.The choice of music, from Ravel's 'Bolero' to other brilliant rock pieces, that were repeated in loops really added to the structure and my enjoyment and I'm sure they hypnotised us into feeling the film shorter than it actually was. This was one of the best features of the project.Unlike the film, I'm going to keep my review shortish. Let's just say that the hype is real, the movie is unforgettable and whilst not quite a Citizen Kane, most film lovers with an open mind and an open heart will find much to enjoy.