Best movie of this year hands down!

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

I'm really not sure what was going on in the movie. Maybe there was something lost in the translation of the film????? First of all... were they vampires or zombies? Why the hell does the main character keep knocking out the girl every time he wants to fight a bad guy? Why did the zombies start coming out on the occasion? Why would you bury someone with a gun after you've killed them????? I was confused and bored. I turned it off with 30 min left. If i could sue the production company for the time i had wasted watching it, i'd be knocking on every ambulance chasers door!!! Finally... how the hell does this movie get on some of the 'top 25 zombie' movies list???

Remember when you were at school and the teacher reminded you that you had an assignment or project due the next day, and that you had been aware of it for three months. And you hadn't even started yet...So rather than take the F you scrawled together some crap over night with some hastily arranged details and rambling barely coherent information that only partially touched upon what was required. Now imagine you sheepishly handed it in. And got an A.That my friends is Versus. I have seen this reviewed glowingly yet for the life of me cannot see why. It has received enough plaudits that one day I went out and bought it because I couldn't find it in any video shop, and boy do I regret that $15 now.Loosely put Versus is about a Japanese Forest that has the power of resurrection due to it being one of the gates to something or other, and every few hundred years a battle is fought between Japanese guys over who will rule the next while. That's at least what I jotted down before I gave up. The plot merely exists to have a bunch of sword fights, zombies and various costumes on screen in what amounts to little more than a student film.Depending on who they are attacking the zombies are either superhuman or consist of exploding jelly, they either stand there waiting to be shot or flip all over the place out of harm's way. Key characters fight, die, come back to fight and die again. Simply more bodies, more fodder for the rest. After the first 10 minutes it's all the same, and let me tell you the first 10 minutes are bewildering and lousy.There's lots of blood, lots of bullets and loads of bad acting. But this is the one point where Versus is a cut above. There is one actor in this film who simply must be seen to fully understand the level of his crapulence. There is not one moment where he is not at 100% ham, either poking his tongue out, jumping around like a demented animal or eye-bulging a reaction to the most mild dialogue.I can think of not one other thing that elevates this film to something worthy of being spoken about, or poor enough to raise a chuckle.I watched this. It sucks. Let's move on.Final Rating - 4 / 10. Two hours of Banana Splits production values and improv-night dialogue, all there so that some Japanese guys can have sword fights and shoot fake zombies while playing dress-ups.

If Sam Raimi and gotten drunk when he was 17 and made a movie about Japanese gangsters and zombies, it would have looked a lot like Versus.A couple of escapes from a Japanese prison with "lawbreaker" in English on the front of their prison jumpsuits meet up with a group of Yakuza gangsters in the middle of the forest. T he gangsters are there to pick up the prisoners and help them escape, but insist they wait for another man to arrive. T he prisoners don't care for that, especially one who looks like the boy band version of a badass. Boy Band Badass especially doesn't like it when he finds out the Yakuza have brought a kidnapped girl along with them. They man they're waiting for has plans for her as well, but Boy Band Badass grabs one of the gangsters' guns and demands they let her go. One of the gangsters gets shot dead…and then he comes back to life as a zombie. As Boy Band Badass and the girl flee and the Yakuza pursue, we learn this forest is where the gang has been burying their victims…and they've all come back to life as zombies as well. What follows that is some really crazy stuff as Boy Band Badass fights the Yakuza and they all fight the zombies. Then the man they were all waiting for shows up and we find out this is all some re-enactment of an ancient battle for a dark power of destruction, only this is in modern times and everyone looks like they stepped out of a music video.There is an awful lot of this movie that is laugh out loud goofy. It is never boring, however, and these Japanese filmmakers do know how to film a fight scene. You can actually see what's happening and follow along, rather than the indecipherable blur of jump cuts and microsecond edits that mar most action scenes in American movies. But you can't take anything else in this film at all seriously.If you're high on some illegal or illicit mind-altering substance, you might have a nice trip watching Versus because it's very visually creative. If you'd like something you can bring home and MST3K with your family and friends, Versus might be a nice choice as well. But if you're neither stoned nor snarky, there's not much here to recommend.

Martial arts and Yakuza and zombies. What a combination. The fact that I watched it after Miyamoto Musashi kanketsuhen: kettô Ganryûjima made it even weirder.Prisoner KSC2-303 (Tak Sakaguchi) escapes from a maximum security prison and is met by the Yakuza, who have a girl (Chieko Misaka) as a hostage. They are waiting for someone else to arrive when everything starts happening. The prisoner and the girl escape to the forest.Now, this is not your ordinary forest, and this is not your ordinary prisoner, and this certainly isn't your ordinary girl.This forest is full of zombies. In fact anyone dying in this forest turns into a zombie. These zombies fight with swords and guns and whatever. You cannot kill them as they will rise again, so it makes for some very long fight scenes. There is an abundance of severed limbs, decapitations, and buckets of blood.The prisoner is ultra-cool and the way he keeps telling the girl to "shut-up" and punching her is funny, and a strange way to act for someone who eventually says, "Don't touch my girl, f*cking asshole." The f*cking asshole is, of course, the uber villain (Kenji Matsuda).Look for some very funny and bizarre characters in Ryuhei Kitamura's film, and lots of action.