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‘Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo’ Review: Takashi Miike’s Loose Remake is a Complete Nonstarter
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Director Takashi Miike attempts a loose, Yakuza-focused reimagining of the 1992 neo-noir film 'Bad Lieutenant.' However, the resulting movie suffers from a disjointed narrative structure that introduces too many unresolved subplots and characters.
WHY IT MATTERS
It provides a critical evaluation of a notable filmmaker's latest work, highlighting how its narrative structure ultimately fails to engage the audience.
The second re-imagining of “Bad Lieutenant” — Abel Ferrara’s 1992 neo-noir starring Harvey Keitel — Takashi Miike’s baffling “Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo” borrows the broad strokes of the original, but tells its own Yakuza-centric story that never fully gets going. Its stop-start approach sees numerous characters and subplots introduced before existing ones can be resolved, or […]
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