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Jeez, we've been posting a ton of content today and half our staff's in San Diego.  And the day's not over yet - I have an exclusive poster premiere later in the evening.  But if you can keep up with us, we're going to keep bringing you the good stuff.

Attack Of The Show played the BUNRAKU trailer on Wednesday, July 20th, and today, AICN has it for you exclusive online!  The trailer looks crazy, with gangsters, cowboys, samurai, car chases, and Woody Harrelson doing his Bartender thing again.  This played at last year's Fantastic Fest and got a great response, and judging from the trailer it looks to be kinetic and fun.  Here's the BUNRAKU trailer!

Even sitting through the trailer makes me yearn for natural sunlight. Or an intelligent plot, non-cardboard characters, uncliched dialogue. Even an ounce of wit or glimmer of intelligence. No matter how cheap this is, they could have done better with the cast sitting in a hotel room reciting the room service menu. I normally try to be an optimist when it comes to shit movies, but straining to say anything good about this makes my head hurt. Hartnett plays the same moody noir character he seems to have played over and over in Sin City and The Black Dahlia while Woody Harrelson gets the most amusing role of the film as the Bartender. In contrast, Demi Moore gets the most thankless role, a part that could easily have left on the cutting room floor but which is most likely still in the film for marketing purposes. This would be more palatable if the fight choreography was varied and engaging, but it is very much a hit and miss affair, often lacking the brutal energy or elegant dance that makes martial arts films a thrill to watch. All sorts of quirky elements are thrown into the fights to engage the audience but the clutter and the kitchen-sink approach actually detracts from the experience, feeling like a whole lot of noise with little to show for it. It's no surprise that the one fight scene that elicited cheers and claps from the audience was an economical, stripped-down setpiece with a singular focus - a thrilling jailbreak fight in one shot that is like Mirror's Edge (the 2D version) come to life. And the response from most people I know there was pretty bad. A few people I knew walked out. I don't know why I didn't. I picked it based on what sounded like it could be a surprise cult hit.

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