This Italian film sets out to be a live-action anime-styled revenge-horror, but its ambition far overreaches its achievement. Starting as it means to go on, this is an extremely violent and relentlessly bloody film that does recall extreme J-horror in which the extreme and stylised effects tend to look either cheap or silly - think Story of Ricky. The titular hero is an intensely inexpressive lank-haired hunk, with a literal devil on his shoulder, who wanders around a futuristic wasteland moodily dispensing uber-violence in order to avenge his wife's murder. Whilst the intention is clear, the execution is often dull and poorly shot, demonstrating precisely why manga works when turned into anime rather than live-action.
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