This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

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

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It may be possible that the cultural difference makes me rate it lower than I would, say, an American film, but really, what a long, boring, pretentious, often ridiculous film!First you have the two protagonists, Japanese pop singers, both dyed blond, Gackt (please attempt to ignore the name sounds like something a Klingon would eat) wearing blue contact lenses, trying to look cooler than God. I could buy that. Then there is the story setting: somewhere in a fictional Chinese city where a blend of poor Japanese immigrants and Taiwanese and Chinese people live and fight each other. I could buy that, too.Now it gets ridiculous: all of this is set in the future (2025-2045) and one of the rising gangsters is a vampire. Does that mean we see cool gadgets, special effects, even vampire teeth? No. The whole story could have been set in the 1980's for all the tech and cars. Then there are the gun fights: long coated heroes stand in the middle of rooms and shoot from akimbo guns without moving (or even aiming). Occasionally, they remain out of ammo and reload their guns by throwing ammo clips to one another.The thing is that if you ignore the vampire angle (which is very very easy, since not much of the lore is used in the film) and the future angle (which is also very easy: just remove the two captions showing the year), then the movie becomes a coming of age, clan gang story. The Godfather this is not, of course, but for that genre and allowing for Asian weirdness and removing about 30 minutes from it, the movie could have fought for an average rating, but as such it is a pretentious borefest.Update: after reading the reviews of other people I can say with almost certainty that its rating was artificially raised by fakers.

I'm not usually much one for drama films, but this one really surprised me with it's creativity and characters.Very emotional, full of ups and downs. This movie makes me laugh and cry... every time :) 10/10I also feel this movie is full of hidden messages and metaphors. Gackt himself has said that the story in this film ties into the stories he tells through his music and works (the Crescent, moon, mars, diabolos) albums tie together with this movie which was also written by Gackt.The ending song in this movie is totally worth it. Sure it may not be the 11 minute long duet, but it still fits quite nicely into the film and the idea portrayed. "Orenji No taiyo " The orange sun.

I wasn't sure how to rate this movie, since it was so bad it was actually very funny. I'm not a Gackt fan by any means, though he is talented, despite the weird pseudonym that sounds like a cat coughing up a hairball. I always thought Hyde was talented though, Faith is an interesting album.But on topic here folks. This movie is ridiculous. It's so over the top and nonsensical it's almost like a parody of supernatural action films.The movie has almost no plot here, except it's just about vampires with gangster friends. In a way, this film almost reminded me of Spider-Man 3, with how there were too many ideas, which resulted in not enough time to pay attention on one of them.The action scenes were laughable. Quickly edited, almost hard to understand, with choreography that's so laughably bad. Though Hyde looked very stylish during the action scenes, but that's this film's only such redemption. I'm a sucker for good action movies, but the action was horribly done. Though the final shootout was OK and the highlight of this otherwise depressing movie.It keeps jumping between genres, not a good thing. It wants to be a drama, or an action flick, or a horror, or a romance... what the hell.If this review is making you mad, why? Is it because Gackt and Hyde are your love? Don't fool yourself, this MOVIE IS BAD.

I've never really been a big fan of Gackt and Hyde (correction, i hate Gackt) so when me and my friends found out he made a movie and did everything himself, we where we got to see that. Preparing ourself for the worst kind there was. But we got pretty surprised. The story was pretty impressive, Gackt was a pretty good actor. There where pretty fun moments in the movie to, so even if you don't like Gackt, you can spend your time with watching him fall all the time and other stuff and some Yaoi moments. Other then that the flying fish and the drugged pizza's from Toshi (played by the same guy that did Shogo Kawada in Battle Royale) and humoristic situations during the battle scenes was also good. the only thing that really bugged me was the time skips all the time..