A huge number of films are released every year. Many will never receive much attention and no one will remember them. And even if they get attention, it doesn’t have to mean they’re actually memorable. I myself occasionally see in my statistics on this site titles of films that no longer ring a bell, even though I have written a review about it. Only when viewing the stills do I only remember which one it was. However, the reverse also happens. Films that also came out in a specific year, which received little or no attention, but have managed to build a name over the years. That’s the case for the Japanese zombie movie One Cut of the Dead. I kept reading positive messages about it. After watching the film, those are quite justified, this is a movie made for film lovers to enjoy.
One Cut of the Dead is a movie you should actually watch without knowing too much about it. It is about a film crew who shoot a low budget zombie film in an abandoned building for, all in one take. During filming, however, they come into contact with real zombies.
Although the film lasts just over an hour and a half, the credits appear after half an hour. However, it is then that the brilliance of the film emerges. The film goes back in time, shows how the director got this job and how the preparations and filming take place. The genius twist is that you get to see things from a different perspective and completely nullify the criticism you could give (the sometimes unnatural pausing of the actors, the director who suddenly talks to the camera, etc.) in the first half hour . This is not a simple zombie film, but a title that has had a lot of planning to show this so convincingly. Even during the credits, director Shin’ichirô Ueda continues to amaze the viewer. This is a movie that I watched with great pleasure and would therefore strongly recommend.
[score9]