Returner

Name: Returner
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Released: October 17, 2003
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 36
Cast: Anne Suzuki, Gorô Kishitani, Takeshi Kaneshiro

2003

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Destination Films | Release Date: October 17, 2003

Starring: Anne Suzuki, Gorô Kishitani, Takeshi Kaneshiro

Summary: The year is 2084 and the human race is fighting an alien militia to save the last remnant of civilization. A young heroine name Milly (Suzuki) escapes the war and jumps back in time to present-day Japan in an attempt to change history and prevent the demise of her people. (Destination Films)

Director: Takashi Yamazaki

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Runtime: 116 min

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Sean Axmaker

A B-movie goof on an A-minus budget, Returner is a mini-epic tweaked with computer effects and one blazing gun battle after another and set to an anonymous techno-beat. Read full review

David Sterritt

Hovering between "Last Action Hero" and "E.T.," this sci-fi extravaganza is bookended with violence but has some gentle moments in between. Read full review

Derek Elley

Kaneshiro is all long flowing locks and smoldering disdain, the visual F/X are only so-so, and pacing is almost brisk enough to hide the plot holes. Read full review

A.O. Scott

A smorgasbord that seems to have been picked out of a Dumpster. It clumsily combines a fish-out-of-water story with bits lifted from sources including the "Terminator" movies, "Star Wars," "Starman," "Close Encounters," a couple of Pink Floyd albums and H. G. Wells. Read full review

Robert K. Elder

Serves as both an homage to and shameless thief of its influences. The result: a sprawling, deformed, undisciplined piece of cinema that hobbles along on weak, genre-splicing tactics. Read full review

Ed Park

A shamelessly recycled vision of decrepit high tech. Read full review

Premiere Scott Warren

The story and stunts are outlandish, and the effects are distractingly computer-generated. To be fair, some of the best things about the film are very Japanese, notably the anime. Read full review

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Broyax

Apr 17, 2018

Avant que le célèbre beau gosse n'entame une nouvelle carrière dans de grosses productions chinoises, Kaneshiro véritable "dieu vivant au Japon" roulait des mécaniques dans ce film SF japonais qui ne lésinait pas sur les effets spéciaux !

De bon aloi les effets en effet, très inspirés deAvant que le célèbre beau gosse n'entame une nouvelle carrière dans de grosses productions chinoises, Kaneshiro véritable "dieu vivant au Japon" roulait des mécaniques dans ce film SF japonais qui ne lésinait pas sur les effets spéciaux !

De bon aloi les effets en effet, très inspirés de Matrix dans cette redite de E.T. (téléphone maison) avec voyage dans le temps inclus et un peu de Transformers... La petite Suzuki (vroum-vroum) utilise le grand benêt pour sauver le monde des griffes d'un malentendu extra-terrestre géno-humanocidaire (oui, on a un peu d'Independence Day aussi là-dedans).

Le scénario tient plus ou moins la route avec ce méchant yakuza qui a une véritable armée à disposition, ennemi héréditaire ou presque du beau gosse qui rend la justice pour le compte de sa grand-mère trafiquante d'armes à son insu. Oui, on a décidément tout et n'importe quoi dans ce Returner qui mélange tout ça avec grande naïveté et flegmatisme.

Distrayant, neuneu et idiot à la fois, on a là une sorte de caricature involontaire du triple A hollywoodien de base mais sans les jokes amerloques ; ça ne casse pas trois pattes à un canard mais ça passe assez bien le temps surtout au second degré... pourvu qu'on soit un minimum indulgent !… Expand

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