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Boiling Point

Boiling Point

1990
Comedy, Action
1h 36m
Two members of a Japanese junior baseball team get mixed up with the local yakuza. After their coach is severely injured by the gangsters, the two boys set off to Okinawa to purchase a gun in order to get revenge (imdb)
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Boiling Point

1990
Comedy, Action
1h 36m
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Avg Percentile 53.63% from 276 total ratings

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Rated 31 Jan 2014
60
20th
The extremely deadpan humour is enjoyable for the first act, but when Takeshi's surprisingly annoying and unamusingly unpleasent character shows up and totally dominates the middle section it kind of goes off the rails a bit. I kept wondering what this guy had to do with the rest of the movie.
Rated 14 Dec 2017
62
42nd
Fun experiment but not a fully engaged movie. Kitano lingers on strange scenes & an entire cast of stoic characters(most interesting part of the film being lack of displayed emotion)interesting shot choices & angles, a good film to look at.You never feel how slow it is. Kitanos character erupts into the movie disregarding the main plot. He plays crazy that is part cinematic exaggeration yet part real, dangerous crazy. Overall tho its like a prototype, kitano trying out ideas not yet fully formed
Rated 07 Jan 2014
68
43rd
Tackles the same themes as Sonatine, but with much less elegance and coherence.
Rated 03 Jun 2011
84
75th
Editing is really effective in some places, and really poor and jarring in others. He again explores violent and nihilistic tendencies, but this time through a much different perspective. Pretty cliched twist that many would say is a cop-out, but actually informs a lot more of the film than at first glance (though it would be a cop-out in a normal drama, but investment in the characters is pretty thin here, very much on purpose). Some sketch comedy too.
Rated 26 Aug 2018
70
42nd
It got way worse when Kitano came into the picture.
Rated 21 Jul 2021
66
51st
Takeshi Kitano hid a gun in a bundle of flowers a year before Arnie did it in T2. It's a little slow until Takeshi Kitano's character enters the film about 45-50 minutes in, then it becomes quite compelling. He's a magnetic screen presence as always, and his character in Boiling Point is especially contemptible. Maybe the beginning is more engaging if you give a shit about baseball?
Rated 04 Apr 2020
75
84th
On the one hand, it is simply a warm up for Sonatine, but it has its own identity and was the first 'proper' Kitano film where he laid down the gauntlet. The mix of offbeat humour and violence is both startling and subtle, and the use of stillness is serene and tense. It's less refined than some of his more acclaimed works, but the slightly scrappy quality adds to its charm, and Kitano stages one of the most precisely executed action scenes of the 90's in a cramped office.
Rated 24 Jul 2020
70
56th
Takeshi Kitano (with Katsumi Yanagishima) is one of the few directors whose work is so consistently nice to look at that he can film himself abusing other people for an entire hour and it's the best part of the film.
Rated 16 Sep 2020
82
70th
Boiling Point estreava há 30 anos no Japão. Desse ponto aqui dá pra ver exatamente o momento em que o Beat Takeshi ganhou o cinema dos anos 90. Box Versátil A Arte de Takeshi Kitano.
Rated 11 Jan 2021
60
62nd
An unusual movie that presents casual violence and impotence at every turn, slowly but surely generating resentment and the conditions for an explosive passage to the act. The offbeat humour, leisurely pace, unconventional camerawork and occasionally "avant-garde" editing, along with the surprising turns of the story, all give this film a unique quality, but the sheer repetitiveness of the violence wears slightly thin and the ending is maybe a little too cute.

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