As much as I would like to be a stereotypical fat white geek living in a basement somewhere, I do find the need sometimes to venture outside of my first-story room to get some Vitamin D in my blood, if only because I prefer my complexion to be at least slightly darker than that of a geisha. What results probably resembles some semblance of a life; as you may glean from the title I do enjoy seeing some works in live-action and in my native language just as much as my pastel-colored, rainbow-haired, moe-charged foriegn anime.

Coinicidentally said happenings have been the result for a lack of any coherent posting schedule of recent, and finding myself falling behind again, I’m going to make like a good game developer and push the actual content back a few days while finding some way to stop-gap it.

And what better way than to make a pretentious review of some movie in a genre that I don’t really know much about, in a scene that I don’t really know much about? Admittedly despite my enjoyment for Bond flicks and random explosions I’m not quite sure what the benchmarks are here for good action movies, but I’ll do my to bring you a fair opinion of an American movie from a Japanese anime fan.

Non-spoiler and spoiler reviews available after the jump.

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