Stefan Ketelsen This movie started out pretty slow pacing and kind of boring. I gotta say i was confused the first 40 minutes. But then Takeshi Kitano showed up and then all the fun started. He acts perfect in this movie. You gotta love him in this role. I laughed my pants of. Its good to see some funny violence. One thing i liked about the violence is that there were no exaggerated sounds when hitting. There is just one thing and that is the ending. I have no idea on what happened and i have seen many discussing this topic. I gotta say i have no clue. I think everyone who likes the Tarantino violence should see this movie. Go and find it and buy it. You won't be disappointed.

Henry Fields "Boiling point" is not a movie that you'll easily assimilate. Too much silence, a plot that looks a little bit confusing and that's quite simple at the same time. What's most remarkable about it is the way Takeshi Kitano shoots, his camera is always static, and hi has a very personal view of violence and humor.Not everyone will understand this story that deals with amateur baseball players and yakuzas, but I guess i's quite advisable for those who love the films of this Japanese director.*My rate: 6/10---------------- ---------------- ------------------ ------------------- -------------------

netwallah Strange—an elegant thug picks on a small, shy, hapless baseball player-gas station attendant, who hits him back. The yakuzas take the affront seriously, and there's a complicated multiple-layer plot, involving the main character's sudden improvement as a baseball-player—he hits a home-run but overruns the slow runner ahead of him—and somehow involving a friend and former gangster, Iguchi, who demands respect, and sends the guy to Okinawa to buy a gun. In Okinawa with the slow runner he falls in with a pair of gangsters who party all night and get guns the next day; the main gangster, played by the director "Beat" Takeshi, is casually mean to his girlfriend, and he kills the gun merchant and the very formal yakuzas who are demanding money from him. As the gas station attendant and the slow runner leave he's killed in the parking lot of the Okinawa airport. The gsa and the sr go to the yakuza headquarters with the gun, but they don't know how to take the safety off and get beaten up. The gsa takes a fuel truck and with his pretty young girlfriend crashes into the y hq in an enormous ball of flame. The movie ends as it began, in the darkness of the portable john, and then as the credits roll the gsa trots across the park to the ballfield. I don't know—it's sort of disaffected or something, the main character hardly reacting to the world, expressionless mostly. Some funny scenes, and a lot of tough talk and punching and pointless mess.

zdz8888 This is a movie about a dorky baseball player that becomes a man. The movie starts out with a baseball game and focuses on this character and shows how he is apathetic towards life, a born loser. He sucks at baseball, nobody really likes him that much and he has no girlfriend. When he goes back to his job, a gangster from the Yakuza, Japanese mafia, is complaining about the carwash he got. So then the baseball player guy (i can't keep all these Japanese names in order) tries to hit him but is blocked. THe gangster says he broke his arm and goes to the doctor. Well this doesn't sit well with the Yakuza so they want to carwash owner to become part of his gang. The coach of the baseball team, now a bar owner, used to be in the Yakuza. He tells them to not give the kid any trouble, but to make himself clear he beats the living crap out of the guy that took over his job. Now, this movie doesn't have a lot of blood, but every scene of violence is brutally disturbing. You don't expect it. The sea is calm and then all of the sudden a 100ft tidal wave destroys the shoreline. Anyway, that guy gets paid back by getting beaten so bad he he can't walk. He says he is going to get a gun and kill the yakuza boss, but since he can't walk the baseball player and his other outcast friend go to Okinawa to buy a black market gun from the military base. One the way they meet "Beat" Takeshi, and I probably bet they wish they hadn't. The whole middle of the movie deals with their adventures with Takeshi's completely sadistic, perverted, insane character. Never in a movie has there been a likeable but aslo highly dispicable character all in the same person. He has no morals but he does, he hates everyone but he loves his friends. He's a paradox. I guess they put that whole part in as a way to show the two baseball players loss of innosense as they witness multiple acts of gratuitous sex, dismemeberment, murder and arms dealings.The two guys return to the outskirts of Tokyo and take the gun to the Yakuza headquarters. In attempting to fire it, the gun jams and two of the tree guys get beaten severely. The "star" baseball player then returns and drives a gasoline tanker straight into the headquarters, blowing up the whole thing. This movie is unlike any American film. I have recently turned to only watching foreign films because of my utter distaste for hollywood garbage and this film has definately pleased me.