The Assassin (2015)
The film is set during the mighty Tang Dynasty-period in Chinese history. Nie Yinniang returns to family after several years in exile. The mission of her order is to eliminate the tyrany of the Governors who avoid the authority of the Emperor. Now she will have to choose between sacrificing the man she loves, or break definitively with the "order of the Assassins" (Martin Matevosyan)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Written By: Hsiao-Hsien Hou, T'ien-wen Chu, Cheng Ah, Hai-Meng Hsieh
Starring: Qi Shu, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Chen Chang
AKA: Nie yin niang
Country: China, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan
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The Assassin belongs to 23 collections
1. FIPRESCI Prize (public: moderated by paulofilmo - 12 stars)
2. Cannes Film Festival: Best Director (public: moderated by MMAlpha - 7 stars)
3. Cannes 2015 Official Selection (public: moderated by CCLZA - 3 stars)
4. BBC's The 21st Century's 100 Greatest Films (public: moderated by jeff_h - 1 star)
5. Wuxia (public: moderated by NhanLa - 1 star)
6. FIPRESCI Grand Prix for the Best Film of the Year (public: moderated by Thegoodboy)
7. Fantastic Fest 2015 (public)
8. NETFLIX QUEUE (public: moderated by estragon)
9. Ricardo Bedoya: Favorite films from 2010-2019 (public: moderated by CCLZA)
10. Netflix USA (private: mpowell - 8 stars)
11. Best by different standards (private: sesito71 - 4 stars)
12. TheEndOfCinema - 30 Essential Wuxia Films (private: Nroo - 2 stars)
13. Foreign - Hong Kong (private: NhanLa - 1 star)
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| Apr 27 | Acct303 | 80 75% |
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reineast | 70 62% |
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NickChengdu | 67 83% |
| Nov 18, 2021 | caffe | 36 14% |
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| Nov 15, 2021 | dracular | 50 60% |
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| Nov 07, 2021 |  |
arrow-s | 71 54% |
| Oct 28, 2021 |  |
OL44893 | 81 65% |
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I'm not going to mince words: Good luck figuring out what the hell is going on. An epic martial-arts period piece, beguiling, ambiguous and - for some perhaps - frustrating in its storytelling. Good thing it's also one of the most visually breathtaking films you'll watch. Huba-huba for gorgeous wuxia costume drama. I think the thing to do is this: watch it, and don't care about anything else. Let the sensorial spill over you.
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| Oct 26, 2021 |  |
vildanden | 60 54% |
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cinemadmirer | 70 21% |
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Judo Koala | 77 64% |
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MC23 | 30 1% |
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| Jan 24, 2021 | Helensun | 65 14% |
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REdotcom | 35 84% |
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aycilyilmaz | 70 28% |
| Dec 10, 2020 | Koroshiya1 | 80 13% |
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eCitizen | 35 24% |
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I very much dislike this director. The fight scenes are over in a flash and then the camera lingers for a ridiculously long time on boring things. The pace is frequently excruciatingly. There is nothing wrong with the story, but style often replaces substance in the showing. There were some stunningly beautiful scenery, but for every beautiful moment there is a even longer pathetic boring one. Qi Shu was cute. Barely worthwhile.
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| Nov 03, 2020 |  |
Tiago Vieira | 75 49% |
| Sep 29, 2020 |  |
PerryStroika | 56 27% |
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Imagine a downmarket Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, smaller scale, without the stunning fight choreography. Hou transplants the stylistic tics of the Taiwanese New Wave here (long takes, lack of closeups, reliance on diegetic sound, still camera) but what felt vital in urban Taipei feels decorative and purposeless in this very different wuxia setting. The result is arty, classy and kind of dull.
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| Aug 30, 2020 |  |
TheShiznit | 48 53% |
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| Aug 10, 2020 | belfastboy | 50 21% |
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| Aug 09, 2020 | mikeparasol | 81 62% |
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Agasdus | 81 83% |
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ugur | 6 40% |
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bluesman | 45 18% |
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Merkeze karşı en büyük muhalefeti yürüten Weibo Hanedanlığı’nda generalin 10 yaşındaki kızı Yinniang, bir rahibe tarafından kaçırılır. Dövüş sanatlarında ustalaşan Yinniang, zalim ve yozlaşmış bürokratları öldürmek üzere eğitilir, eşsiz bir suikastçıya dönüşür. Bunu okuyunca insan umutlanıyor ama film öyle ağır ki filmden geriye şahane görsellik, uzun ve tek planlar, doğa sesleri kalıyor. Takip etmesi gerçekten zor.
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| May 01, 2020 | cococeva | 60 48% |
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tatarbey | 63 18% |
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emreyuksel | 30 2% |
| Apr 26, 2020 | gigo | 73 37% |
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| Apr 24, 2020 | zizegkts | 88 67% |
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| Apr 22, 2020 | chengming | 45 15% |
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Gawd... People in costumes sitting around and telling you the movie, like some remnant from the early silent area when they had to resort to intertitles. And just when I thought a film couldn't be less suitable for my taste, they start flying... On the plus side, I will never make the mistake of confusing Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang again!
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| Apr 22, 2020 | account2 | 54 48% |
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| Apr 19, 2020 | Liquefied | 61 32% |
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brianstorm | 61 36% |
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rafaelbastos | 80 44% |
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jndcnr | 55 19% |
| Apr 07, 2020 | thirdeye42 | 71 48% |
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| Apr 05, 2020 | Pleveen | 95 87% |
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cryteno | 55 18% |
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Zafer | 70 51% |
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Basp | 50 11% |
| Mar 01, 2020 | CineLounge | 71 69% |
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| Feb 11, 2020 | laliluulilal | 90 74% |
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| Jan 26, 2020 | rebet | 80 0% |
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YMS (Adum) | 60 52% |
| Jan 12, 2020 | Dicke_Taube | 50 18% |
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| Jan 11, 2020 | joao.neto | 50 22% |
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| Jan 10, 2020 | KamilPPP | 70 35% |
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| Jan 09, 2020 | jgardner | 69 20% |
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| Jan 05, 2020 | colmener | 90 94% |
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| Dec 31, 2019 | gossamer2019 | 56 32% |
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| Dec 08, 2019 |  |
Ascalon | 75 71% |
| Dec 08, 2019 | cable101 | 30 20% |
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themadelf66 | 79 71% |
| Nov 23, 2019 | Old_Spriggan | 65 27% |
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amerigo | 75 37% |
| Nov 03, 2019 | babil7 | 80 51% |
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| Oct 26, 2019 | invention | 3 46% |
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| Oct 23, 2019 | flipperrbm | 6 66% |
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| Oct 22, 2019 | insteadman | 40 9% |
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Florin92 | 40 8% |
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porzano | 60 71% |
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cascade | 33 3% |
| Aug 15, 2019 |  |
Narg | 38 22% |
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Even Sherlock Holmes wouldn't be able to figure what the hell happened in this movie. I can understand why somebody might love this movie and that my own attention span might be holding my enjoyment back, but I can't stand art that feels deliberately obtuse.
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| Aug 09, 2019 |  |
bal3x | 50 20% |
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Thegoodboy | 83 95% |
| Jul 26, 2019 | krulltott | 60 53% |
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| Jul 26, 2019 |  |
overrated | 41 34% |
| Jul 16, 2019 |  |
Oliveira | 95 97% |
| Jun 05, 2019 | synthono | 85 74% |
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| May 01, 2019 | Hojji77 | 93 95% |
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| Apr 30, 2019 | Grandaddy | 65 45% |
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mehmet?erif | 80 39% |
| Apr 10, 2019 | knives | 67 27% |
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| Mar 28, 2019 |  |
nobamba | 40 29% |
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Beautiful landscape, costumes, and cinematography. I wasn't paying enough attention so I might have to rewatch, since it was too confusing for me to follow. There are too many things unsaid so the slowness is probably meant for me to feel my own reactions, but I just wasn't paying enough attention. I appreciated the fights being fairly quick instead of the genre drawn-out battles. Fav scene: dispatching three people rushing her in the woods.
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| Mar 22, 2019 |  |
DarrenCB | 70 42% |
| Mar 06, 2019 | kjones77 | 40 5% |
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| Mar 05, 2019 | mate_cosido | 70 40% |
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tsumanne | 65 45% |
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finchereznor | 70 28% |
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avian_patois | 79 59% |
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| Jan 04, 2019 | Kabbjeh | 40 7% |
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| Jan 01, 2019 | bko | 75 68% |
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| Dec 28, 2018 | FraGil | 75 66% |
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| Dec 22, 2018 | Delek | 80 4% |
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| Dec 05, 2018 | mathiasa | 30 10% |
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Dennis Li | 3 61% |
| Nov 24, 2018 | zumplo | 78 11% |
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| Nov 19, 2018 | DocBrowne | 49 17% |
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| Nov 16, 2018 | pl_ | 55 8% |
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Henrik | 80 80% |
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adrenaline | 70 70% |
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donmateo | 68 73% |
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| Sep 10, 2018 | bingobango | 77 75% |
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| Aug 10, 2018 | skb2933 | 75 51% |
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| Aug 07, 2018 |  |
Darren | 72 59% |
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Meditative and real nice looking.
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| Jul 27, 2018 | Caracortada | 40 21% |
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Seethruskin | 4 52% |
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damper | 40 15% |
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| May 01, 2018 | John Milton | 70 61% |
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Neonman | 67 29% |
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Boring and beautiful.
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| Apr 29, 2018 | LEAVES | 52 54% |
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| Apr 12, 2018 | LMFAO | 76 83% |
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| Mar 08, 2018 | Maxu123 | 25 4% |
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| Mar 05, 2018 | gfsheppard | 60 18% |
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kcknz | 21 4% |
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bookhouseboy | 35 39% |
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#18#, exp3, rw3, story, rartings
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| Jan 16, 2018 |  |
danozu | 65 55% |
| Jan 14, 2018 | mjbreuer | 63 40% |
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| Jan 13, 2018 |  |
antidood1 | 40 8% |
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Gets all the points for its technical qualities, and none for characters, plot, storytelling or general watchability. Some arthouse movies have this weird thing where they're both glacially slow and impossible to follow, so maybe here it was just too much for me. On the other hand, I now know how people feel when they watch Drive but secretly just want The Fast and the Furious.
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lan | 10 0% |
| Jan 09, 2018 | cengaveri | 62 5% |
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JohNash | 95 19% |
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FancyMike | 4 58% |
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DekDeMovie | 20 7% |
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Mikadzuki | 59 33% |
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elmakebabi | 56 31% |
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| Oct 01, 2017 | sandrikoti | 90 56% |
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| Sep 30, 2017 |  |
astrakhan | 72 24% |
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I was anticipating eagerly and couldn't believe how disappointing this was. Definitely not intended as a Western-acessible Chinese epic in the vein of "House of Flying Daggers". So many scenes of robed noblemen and women sitting at tea ceremonies discussing politics. No real sense of place because everything was set in a salon or a forest. No sense of society outside of nobility and assassins. The bizarre, underwhelming cinematography was the final nail. Spectacle assassinated by arthouse.
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| Sep 27, 2017 |  |
kidmaniac | 32 4% |
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Niyazi | 40 2% |
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mamali_zoli | 75 37% |
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jackinthebox | 80 79% |
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defiance13 | 45 6% |
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dzejson | 59 31% |
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| Jul 18, 2017 | Edueccì | 70 68% |
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RYM-byrates | 66 64% |
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katyaninyazi | 65 24% |
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| Apr 07, 2017 | benyamin | 75 22% |
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| Apr 03, 2017 | toro913 | 71 79% |
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| Mar 30, 2017 |  |
Armilio | 58 21% |
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A wuxia movie with a lot of trees shotted with different coloured cinematographies. Hou likes trees, i guess. The fighting are more realistic than usual for this genre and they are never the centerpiece, never resolutive; it's all about theatrical poses, little body movements, the untold. With so few dialogs we don't get to know the characters well, but we know perfectly the relations between them: the words aren't needed. Interesting as a different way to do a Wuxia, but too slow, empty.
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| Mar 21, 2017 |  |
ericdupont | 85 78% |
| Mar 12, 2017 |  |
backwardsuit | 79 77% |
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There's something intoxicating about the opaque formalism in this film's style & story. It conjures a breathless world of shrouds, masks, mists, social ritual & deceit where morality & truth only reveal themselves for half a blink. The sedate narrative makes this timeless & enigmatic though at times it can feel like watching some kind of gorgeous 9th century staring tourney. I get how this can translate to hollow/boring/pretentious but I found it deliberate & often mesmerising storytelling.
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| Feb 25, 2017 |  |
mCihhh | 40 12% |
| Feb 24, 2017 | Panunzio | 66 26% |
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| Feb 21, 2017 | kode | 86 80% |
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| Feb 12, 2017 | andreyevic | 74 39% |
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TraverseTown | 10 4% |
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| Feb 06, 2017 | ns_ian | 70 48% |
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| Feb 04, 2017 | pythag3 | 72 20% |
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asgeirhuns | 7 61% |
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SeanBerndorff | 35 9% |
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entrapmen | 60 29% |
| Jan 05, 2017 | leemarvins | 50 28% |
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| Jan 05, 2017 | Sane | 76 71% |
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| Dec 29, 2016 |  |
auhasarderik | 6 40% |
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I guess the best thing you can do is forget about plot and characters and drink up the visuals. This may be the most pointless movie I have ever wanted to keep and watch again.
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| Dec 28, 2016 | quenyks | 80 59% |
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anaskvit | 75 47% |
| Dec 23, 2016 | robochaa | 60 28% |
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| Dec 20, 2016 | bidola | 77 32% |
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darkman | 72 51% |
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Dirk33 | 78 50% |
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maxcoombes | 85 91% |
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MetaCritic2 | 80 87% |
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MoonLoop | 84 62% |
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| Average Percentile 47.69% from 547 Ratings |  |