This latest Japanese psychological thriller from prolific director Takashi Miike starts off with a moodily dramatic prologue, setting up a familiar cat-and-mouse game between a cold (and murderous) lawyer, the seemingly-mythical 'Lumberjack Killer' and a determined police profiler. The first two lively sequences quickly give way to to relentlessly dreary talky exchanges, and the wayward story about orphans and neurochips is hampered by its repetitiveness, even though the opening set-up makes the lawyer's story clear and the audience is able to piece together the different elements before the police. There is a real effort made to make the film look moody and stylish, but with its slim and long-winded story the film might have benefitted from a bit more of the director's signature manic approach.
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