Broken Rage Review: Japanese Action Comedy Needs Only 62 Minutes To Bring The House Down [Venice]

A bloodied Takeshi Kitano pulls a face while seated at an interrogation table in Broken Rage

Broken Rage has put me in a difficult position. On the one hand, I want you to have the same experience with it that I did, and I went in completely blind. On the other, I don't quite have the courage to pull a Jack Torrance and fill several more paragraphs with the same sentence repeated ad nauseam. So, I'll say now that you should see Broken Rage, preferably with people. If you're not sold yet, read on, but know there's no shame in stopping as soon as you are.

What we were ultimately treated to came in two segments: two tellings of the same story. In both, Kitano plays Nezumi , a killer for hire. He gets his contracts from Mr. M, who leaves unlabeled envelopes for him at a local café. After a couple hits, he gets nabbed by the cops, who recruit him for an assignment to secure his freedom. He must go undercover as a bodyguard for a local Yakuza boss and gather evidence on their role in the drug trade.

Broken Rage's Jokes Range From Silly To Meta And Everything In Between I won't go further into Broken Rage's individual bits, except to say that the film's sense of humor is somewhere in the realm of Airplane! and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Unrestrained silliness reigns, fueled by a honed awareness of the expectations that genre and movies in general create in an audience. Some meta-jokes are quite clever, while other visual gags are outright ridiculous.

Kitano is a special case; those familiar with his performance style know he's virtually a type on his own. What works so well in Broken Rage is that he essentially does the opposite of his castmates, and plays his character the same way both times. The Nezumi of the first section is as confident in his abilities as he has every right to be, and he retains that same swagger in "Spin Off," despite having absolutely no claim to it.

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