This movie was so weird. It was like watching three different films at once. It couldn't decide if it wanted to be a revenge film, a comedy, or an action movie. Here's an example: Very early in the film, we are shown two different pairs of gangsters knocking on a lady's door looking for her husband. The husband comes home and has a shoot-out/stand-off with the various gangsters. It's not very apparent where particular loyalties lie or even who the hell anyone actually is. The wife interrupts the proceedings to feed the baby and not only is a cease-fire called, but the gangsters actually take time out to help the guy they were shooting at furnish his house. Then they all sit down for dinner and sake. The wife even takes a picture of all of them together.
That's weird.
The title refers to the husband, exiled after failing to assassinate their mob boss, but recently returned to the city. The four gangsters were his best friends who are now supposed to kill him. There are a lot of barely-connected events and random characters. And violence. There's a lot of shooting.
So I didn't mind it so much. I'd never own it, but it wasn't a bad rental. You could even improve upon with drinking.
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