ScoobyWell
Great visuals, story delivers no surprises
SpecialsTarget
Disturbing yet enthralling
Ezmae Chang
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Cody
One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
david
i thought that this title was more entertaining than the series because it went all out and just dumped awesome moment after awesome moment on the viewer in a constant barrage of flying limbs and blood. if you want more of the same from the first one, this movie will satisfy.As for the plot, like the first one it's somewhat lacking, but that can easily be forgiven due to the wicked-stylish animation, great voice-work, and action that impressed me more than anything sense Equilibrium. i give it a solid 8, if the plot was more cohesive it could easily receive a 9 or 10. I bought the special edition DVD for 20$, if you liked the first show it's definitely worth the money to buy the second. i really want to find the soundtrack to this because the RZA did a really good job with the music.
chaos-rampant
Brooding, laconic badass Afro Samurai and his wisecracking alter ego Ninja Ninja (both voiced by Samuel Jackson) once again return to walk the path of demons as a sultry villainess (voiced by Lucy Liu) steals Afro's Number One headband and plots her revenge that involves resurrecting Afro's dead father. The refreshing and intriguing combination of blaxploitation, samurai culture, anime and hip hop (soundtrack by usual suspect RZA) that made the first one such an infectiously cool hack-and-slash yarn is pretty much of the same standards but this time it's let down by a silly story and disappointing ending that was clearly not very well thought out. How easy Afro loses his headband at the beginning of the film left me scratching my head in disbelief but Teddy Bear's change of heart at the end was downright lame. Whereas the first worked so well exactly because of the very simple revenge story - Afro, wearing the Number Two headband, looking for the man who killed his father, all the while having to defend his headband from an assortment of colourful villains, not very different to a video game logic and very enjoyable for that matter - Afro Samurai: Resurrection throws everything and the kitchen sink in the plot and hopes it all makes sense somehow. I also had the impression the gore and blood geysers were less this go around. Fans of the first will probably have a good time as the funky and bloody style are good enough for 90 minutes of brainless fun but take it any more serious and you might be in for a let down.
totalz
I was happy when Afro was killed at the end in this one, which is probably a better ending imho! It actually makes me think "Good, there won't be a third, cause Afro is dead!". But like the title, he has to be resurrected too... This one is such a drag, the theme of hatred and revenge is no fun when guilt has a part. Or the silly conscience that suddenly comes back from a "brain dead" droid, though creating another tragic feeling of "my time is wasted".In a psychology point of view, this one does fit its original intend, a TV movie. With all the silly ads u have to watch in between, you may want to think more about your life, how educational!! Watch the Afro Samura (DC, the movie, 2007) by all mean!! But this one, u may as well take a dump while watching... now i wish i have a psp!!
Namfoodle
Samuel L. Jackson's adventures as a boring guy with a big afro, hip-hop music by RZA and a funny stereotypical-black-guy-sidekick and other completely shallow characters in a completely plot less and stupid anime movie, that is probably the worst of the kind that I have had the misfortune to sit through.Now probably this would have been at least a bit better if I had seen the show and I don't intend to, thanks to this. I know that the series is supposed to be a lot better than this. Now this had nothing interesting, expect for the great and smooth animation and some nice fighting scenes.Propably good for 14-year-olds.