ONE CUT OF THE DEAD (2017)

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PREFACE: Bet it's annoying to hear this is one of those movies best watched knowing nothing, but, well, it's the truth. You've been warned.

I'm really impressed not only by ONE CUT OF THE DEAD's ability to disguise such a meta-meta-narrative the way it does, but also with how a rewarding an experience the film continually is versus a cheap M Night Sham THE VILLAGE tier trick. In other words: ONE CUT isn't obnoxious at all (besides the generic ost i'm pretty sure is plucked straight from iMovie's sample libraries). And it's hard to not be obnoxious filming this type of film, christ, 'cause it's real easy to end up with THE VILLAGE. Regardless, Shinichiro Ueda maneuvers his ship boldly by having the content not only psyche the viewer out but re-contextualize content they've already seen.

Cheap iTunes are the main reason why i'd dock a half star from one cut's rating. The other half are concepts played with not not actually well explored, explained, or revisited in a way that would've make every single inch of the film considerably tighter. Not necessarily funnier, and I guess ONE CUT definitely has its humor, but there's nothing wrong with injecting a little more grounded humanity into the story... especially since, again, they lay these concepts out themselves. They just don't go anywhere. I'm being coy. I warned you and I'm still being coy. That's how much I still like the film, hahaha. The lead should play a cowboy flick sometime.