Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013)

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Why Don't You Play in Hell? is an absolutely insane and over the top action comedy film. It's quite unique, and quite beautiful. It's essentially a love letter to cinema.The first 3/4 of this film is the setup for everything. There's a lot of good, cringey humor, some small segments of over the top violence and super stylish film making.Characters and their backgrounds are set up, their motives and dreams, it's all there. The way they're introduced is often humorous and stylistically weird, (for instance a gangster and his obsession for a young girl set up in a kitchen ankle deep in blood) and it's an absolute joy to watch everyone mixing together and interacting.The story is crazy and inventive, light-hearted and straight out brutal. For an R rated film, there really isn't a lot of violence or adult themes for most of this film. That is until you reach the last 20 minutes of this film which delivers everything you could ever want from a film like this. It erupts into a violent blood whirlwind, full of over the top kills, dramatic deaths, raw emotion and absolute insanity. It has an absolutely perfect ending for the film it is.The camera work is neat, the sound is well done, the direction is great, the story is insane and there's a lot of heart in this. And I think that's why I love it so much.This is a film I feel the director has done to throw in as many elements as possible, to direct all the things he never had the chance to direct, or may never have the chance to direct. It's a mix of gangster, kung-fu, samurai, romance, comedy, and it relishes all of these genres. And you can't help but have such a good time and feel a range of emotions when watching this.I'm glad I found this sitting off to the side at the store for a cheap price. It was totally worth it. I had a great time with this film and it flies by. If you love movies, all types of movies, I think you'll find a place for this film inside of you. It's one of a kind. It's like a super hyper violent version of Cinema Paradiso, fueled by cocaine and pumped with heart, emotion and steroids.Overall, this movie is great. It has awesome action, lovable/annoying characters, intense drama, and a huge love for film. 8/10 a great watch.

This was a movie made with great love for cinema. If you are a true lover of film you'll greatly enjoy this film. The film has many references, parodies and praise for other films you'll recognise which adds to the fun. The music is excellent, a lot of it original, some you'll recognise...If you liked Kill Bill, your sure to like this, where as Kill Bill was like a love letter to Japanese cinema and culture coming from Tarantino, this is one coming right out of Japan....The main appeal for this film is that it is lots of fun and you'll get the tone of the film very early on, which is the crazy off the wall humour which Japan specialises in. Its gloriously over the top, gory and funny and I was smiling the whole way through! Check it out!

Unfortunately, This Japanese Gore Film is unsatisfying to watch. The only way I would watch this movie is if it was for the ending which even it has its problems.The story is very complicated. There are these amateur filmmakers who want to make a film, this guy who is captured by the Yakuza whose boss wants to make a film for his daughter who was in Japanese ads when she was a kid, Some kind of truce between two mob bosses that gets broken, I have no clue what went on. This movie for the first hour is extremely boring, unpleasant (Not in the gory way) and really needed a huge rewrite. All it is, is just boring, pointless and bad exposition and talking and violence that adds nothing until the whole movie finally gets in shape and remembers: "HEY! Wasn't There A Film we had to make?" I felt I was watching a Japanese soap opera instead of a gore picture!The guy who gets captured by the Yakuza, Koji, guess how he finds his crew? He pukes on some written wishes. But the puke goes on for way too long which makes it unbelievable. The only thing good was the ending. I thought this whole freaking movie was going to be an awesome bloody massacre movie. But no, the first hour and a half is just pointlessness and set up to the film they are going to make, then the last 35 minutes are amazing violence and death and it is one of the best action sequences I have seen in a very long time.But the fact that they kill every important cast member except the selfish overly confident unlikable director feels like a huge middle finger to the audience. Also, he doesn't realize HE MADE A SNUFF FILM AND WILL RELEASE IT TO WIDE AUDIENCES ACROSS JAPAN!! This guy should be freaking put in a jail cell!But the police show up and he escapes while they kill everyone! Then, they show him running down the streets, then show the premiere of the film where the clueless audience members applaud as the other cast members are fine and well and are all dandy. BUT OH NO WE CANT END ON THAT NOTE. Lets go back to the shot of him running with the freaking footage which the police are possibly going to hunt him down for and then, CUT! The director says. Yes. I have no freaking clue what was going on. This movie just gave up three quarters of the way through the whole entire ending.This movie is just a headache to watch. All I asked for was great gory fun and the Trailer made it look amazing. But of course I was fooled and got sucked into a gun shot loud drama, then set up, then a almost perfect ending. If you really want to watch Japanese Bloody or Gory films, watch something like Battle Royale or any other movie that is better.Its only worth it for the ending action scene. That's it.41/100 D+

The more movies of Sion Sono's that I see, the more I realize that he is one of the greatest artists working today. It's a big claim and I don't like to kiss ass, but the man is one of the few people working in entertainment and art that sees through the current state of the world and instead of criticizing it, he creates a stylish farce that inspires, entertains, and breaks our balls for believing in what we do, in the way we do. He challenges us in a playful way, that I believe is more compelling than the other artists that attempt to do the same thing through relating trauma in films that Hollywood seems to like concerning war, disease, rags to riches to rags, etc...The world is absurd because of the people in it. The characters. Of course this life is a saga, a tragedy, an adventure, a romance, but above all it is a chaotic mess filled with jokes and gore. Filled with weirdos that are completely out of place on this planet and weirdos that are even more in place. I love Sion Sono's films and this one in particular lives up to what I love about them. This film gives me hope in the world. I won't spoil it for you. It's about yakuzas clashing with a film crew. It's about me and you. It's about you and me. Yakuzas and a film crew.