Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

mistoppi I found this film in the rental store ages ago, but at that time I didn't rent it. I was kind of suspicious. But it started to haunt me, I knew I had to see it. The summary on the DVD kept saying how Sushi Girl is easy to compare to Quentin Tarantino, and since that man is the love of my life. The next time it was either all rented or I just didn't find it. Eventually I got it, and from the moment it started I knew I was going to fall in love with the film. It has everything I love to see in a film: mystery, violence, beautiful women (or a beautiful woman, or it happens to be with Sushi Girl), tension and thrill, revenge and so many other details and themes, I can't even list them all.The beginning of this movie is beyond perfect. It's quiet, it's slow, yet it's extremely intense. It's something that makes you know you're going to watch the whole movie. And right from the beginning the music of this film is amazing. I want to listen to the whole soundtrack again, that's how good it was. Towards the end of this film I almost forgot about the soundtrack, because while the film gets even more intense, the music doesn't distract the viewer, it enhances the feeling of the scene. Every track goes well with the moments they were tied with. They create such a great balance it's easy to just make the soundtrack merge with the scene. They just belong together. Sushi Girl is also visually extremely beautiful. There were so many shots I just looked at and thought they were absolutely perfect. Either it was the colours, the simplicity, the details or whatnot, the cinematography of Sushi Girl just doesn't let you down.The plot of this movie is an excellently planned mystery. The makers of the film have left you with enough space to try to guess the truth with the slow pace of the film. While a lot of things happen during the movie, you still have time to think about it on your own, but the film-makers still have the ability to surprise you. The plot isn't the only brilliant writing about this film. The characters are interesting, and there's a lot you don't know, but you can bet the writes know almost every detail of the characters. Little piece about them is dropped every now and then, but it's hard to tell if those things are true or if the characters are just mocking each other. Every character has this tension between them all the time, you just expect some of them to beat the hell out of each other any minute, while the tensions between the others is weird, and you can't quite say what it is between them. And the dialogue, well, the dialogue is the best kind of dialogue I want from a movie. It's clear the writers of this film have learned from the best.Sushi Girl is everything I hoped it would be and more. The only thing I can compare it to is Reservoir Dogs, but even if Sushi Girl is clearly heavily influenced by Reservoir Dogs, it is still different and its own movie. It has excellent writing, music, cinematography, characters, everything. It's interesting, thrilling and surprising. I love every thing about this film.

Leofwine_draca SUSHI GIRL is a single location thriller with a nice setting and sense of time and place. It was written and directed by Kern Saxton as an obvious labour of love and tribute to, not only Quentin Tarantino - whose RESERVOIR DOGS is an obvious inspiration - but the B-movie thriller genre as a whole. The setting is an elaborate banquet in which Japanese food is served on the naked body of a woman (the unknown Cortney Palm, effective in a difficult part). A gang of thieves lost a fortune in diamonds six years ago, and upon the release of one of their number from prison, they're determined to find out what happened to it.Obviously, how much you enjoy SUSHI GIRL depends on how much you like the actors involved. I had a ball with them. Tony Todd inevitably towers over everybody as the cruel boss but the rest of the cast match him, particularly Noah Hathaway's sympathetic rookie; you may recall Hathaway as a child actor in THE NEVERENDING STORY back in the day. James Duval (THE BLACK WATERS OF ECHO'S POND) actually plays his age for once, while Andy Mackenzie is completely believable as a brutal thug. Most notably we have Mark Hamill who hams it up in a Joker-style turn as a sneering, laughing villain. He's unrecognisable and certainly unforgettable in the part.The running time flies past and the film never bores despite the single location. The flashbacks of the robbery are done effectively and there's a fine sequence featuring brief cameos from Danny Trejo, Michael Biehn, and Jeff Fahey. Even better, the inimitable Sonny Chiba also cameos. The only thing that dragged this film down a bit was that the ending twists were very obvious and that there's a little too much dwelling on extensive torture scenes - never my favourite - to pad out the running time. Other than that, it's a decent B-movie.

Paul Mayhem Mark Hamill is one twisted bastard, and that is a good thing! This movie was an odd one for me, didn't know much about it, but I loved the artwork. I am glad I took a chance. Basically it plays out like many Post-Tarantino movies, but this one is a bit different. For one thing, it is actually pretty damned good. For another, it has some good twists and will keep you engaged. Finally it has a killer cast that really makes the most of their characters. The violence erupts in glorious style at points in the film, but it is more about the story and finding out where the road will take you. Each character holds a key to the final twist, and some huge genre favorites do great work here. Come for the sushi, stay for the fun!

nicky_cooldude I watched this film on a film weekend and it was the weakest out of all the films I watched.It steals heavily from reservoir dogs, yet has a poor script, full of lame stereotypes and heavily over acting. Such gems as referencing the Japanese as "yellow" yet the sushi girl is clearly white. Whiter then white me. The following sums it up. "Have you ever seen the inside of a steal mill..." .."...stop wasting my time"The ending was visible after 10 minutes, Tony Todd shouldn't be asked to hold a film together that revolves around a single room for the most part, there are no decent scenes, and the only saving grace is Mark Hamil, who was in make up long enough to almost make you feel that he is acting great.Put fish on a radiator for 1.5 hours and it'll taste like this film does at the end.4/10