Tsukamoto Shinya can do much better than this. Where the material once begged for a frighteningly sexual and personal rabbit hole mindfuck, here it is spelled out with surprisingly poor dialogue, bizarre spoken English and a hamfisted Akira / Body Hammer industrial espionage plot, amounting to nothing more than a V cinema sequel hackjob.

I was really confused which was worse the second or this one. The effects were freshly different and there was clearly more money to produce it. But this time there was more spoken lines and they really annoyed since they were very poorly written. This version was also the first one where they used English language instead of Japanese.

While the original Tetsuo film used scrambled, hallucinatory, kinetic imagery to tell its story, The Bullet Man uses long scenes of dialog-based exposition. Instead of being forced to piece the tangled plot together in our mind, it's explained to us by line after line of poorly written dialog. The result is a boring, watered down version of a really neat experimental film.

Tsukamato's long awaited followup both satisfies and dissapoints. On a visual level this film succeeds in reinterpreting the previous film's experimental style, but the overall narrative is lacking. Bullet Man could almost be described as Tsukamato revisiting the plot concepts he introducing in Body Hammer, but there seems little reason as to why since nothing new is introduced. T3 provides more industrial madness which is great, but there's little innovation.