SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

CroCop this is my 3rd Kitano movie (after Violent Cop & Brother), i enjoyed this as much as the other, Kitano's movies move at such a pace which you think would be boring but there's something about his movies which draws you in.This film was pretty much hilarious and brutal at the same time, i mean you wouldn't usually laugh at woman getting used for sex and getting slapped about harshly at every turn, but the way Takeshi's character does it makes it hilarious, especially the scene involing the ice lollies outside the store...bizarre humour.This movie had a strange story, it never goes into enough depth to make you get real sucked into the characters, so the final scene, whilst spectacular kind of leaves you thinking 'they all died?'.Other than a pretty shallow story i found this very entertaining...Takeshi's movies rule! Check this.

cranialblowout Having heard good things about Takeshi Kitano's films, I was looking forward seeing "Boiling Point", having purchased both this and "Sonatine" in the sales, even though it broke my Golden Rule of impulse buys: don't buy any film with quotes from un-named sources on the sleeve (especially if they've got spelling mistakes), in this case "A Genuine Original", "Beautifully directed, Indispensible viewing".Anyway, the quotes were more misleading than lying, as the film definitely is both original and beautifully directed, but only really indispensable for fans of Kitano's, who don't need me to tell them to watch it. For everyone else, it probably isn't the best Kitano film to start with. Marketed as an action movie, the film is much more and much less: it has more heart and intelligence, but much less in the way of action or excitement, feeling more like a slow-burning drama with a little bit of gun-play and one big explosion; John Woo this ain't. However, the acting, from Kitano in particular, is excellent as is the stylish direction: Kitano fills the screen with beautiful images and twisted humour.Worth a look, if you keep in mind that's very slow moving tale, with more baseball action than there is action movie. *** out of five.

tepish I rented this movie to see a Japanese action-gangster movie. It was the best most intelligent action movie I have seen since `Ronin' (Dir. John Frankenheimer). I was pleasantly surprised when it turned out to be so much more than action. I was challenged by this film I found myself wanting to know more about one actor in particular `beat' Takeshi. He has the commanding presence that actors such as DeNiro, Walken and Klaus Kinski demand. So I went online and was again surprised when I found out he wrote and directed the movie as well.

Mister Wolf *3-4x jugatsu* is a cocktail of drama,crime and absurd situations that never convince.The plot isn't interesting at all and its boring after 30 minutes. Sometimes very bloody,sometimes very hilarious but the humor comes on the wrong moments. The cast does a good job and that's the only positive element of this movie. 4.5/10