Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on May 2014

Note to Japanese filmmakers chasing the Holy Grail of becoming the Great Crossover Director: It’s one thing to make a film in English. It’s quite another to make one that isn’t as pretentious a piece of kuso as this. Fails on every level. The fourth-rate cast is so bereft of direction that each blows his/her “big scene” with comical overacting. The premise positing a sterile “race of clones” being hunted and exterminated doesn’t make any sense. Note to Hiroshi Nakajima: sorry to be so blunt, but if you listen only to the gratifying but empty praise you may be getting, you will never be a filmmaker. (103 min)