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Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo review – Takashi Miike follows Ferrara and Herzog with a disappointment

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  1. 18 September
  2. Latest18 Sept, 04:05

    ‘Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo’ Review: Shun Oguri and Lily James in a Meandering Franchise Entry From Takashi Miike That’s Semi-Coherent at Best

    The Japanese cult director follows Abel Ferrara and Werner Herzog in charting the downward spiral of a corrupt detective with a drug habit, this time navigating the yakuza underworld.

    The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood Reporter•David Rooney
  3. 16 September
  4. Follow-up16 Sept, 18:30

    ‘Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo’ Review: Takashi Miike Brings Trouble To Tokyo In A Funny Riff On Abel Ferrara’s Corrupt Cop Drama – Toronto Film Festival

    Takashi Miike took to the stage at the world premiere of his new film Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo like a rock star. “I’m Miike” he roared. “I’m back!” Which is immediately funny, because he’s never, ever really been away; arguably the hardest-working man in show business, Miike is never very far from a movie camera. Produced […]

    DeadlineDeadline•Damon Wise
  5. Follow-up16 Sept, 11:57

    ‘Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo’ Review: Takashi Miike’s Loose Remake is a Complete Nonstarter

    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 […]

    VarietyVariety•Siddhant Adlakha
  6. 15 September
  7. First seen15 Sept, 19:14

    Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo review – Takashi Miike follows Ferrara and Herzog with a disappointment

    Toronto film festival: There’s a surprisingly tame quality to the gorehound’s contribution to the rough and ready franchise and a general aimlessness that frustrates Abel Ferrera’s Bad Lieutenant, starring Harvey Keitel as the eponymous coke-addled cop stumbling into crime scenes and contributing to the injustices, felt like it had us rooting around the mouldy and corroded interior of a back-alley dumpster, searching for a soul. A Takashi Miike adaptation seemed an appealingly foul idea. The maestro behind Audition and Ichi The Killer is known for punishing audiences with J-horror violence but with a formal elegance that we couldn’t look away from. His Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo should have been the perfect marriage of moral degradation and corporal desecrations. The movie lives up to its promise when those extremes are giddily on the same page. But more often than not Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo is a confounding and frustrating mess, a smorgasbord of good ideas (and some bad ones) at odds with each other, barely held together by Shun Oguri’s wily performance. Continue reading...

    The GuardianThe Guardian•Radheyan Simonpillai in Toronto