gbgino When I read some of the other reviews for this film, I was quite excited to see this. It turns out this is probably the most abrupt about-face I've ever taken on a movie. My Beef with the crap-fest that is Death Trance:1. I love Asian movies but I hate Anime. The themes are always absurdly sensational and even downright kinky. This movie seems like it was written after an anime or maybe with a particular manga in mind. It has everything in common with anime from the extreme focus on visual appearance to the unreasonable number of static face shots. I'm looking down but up through my eyebrows while my head is tilted cockily to the side. Aren't I a bad*ss now?2. No. Despite the movie being listed under action, there is little or no real tangible action. Granted I'm a Jackie Chan fan so I"m used to seeing actual stunts and solid blows. Death Trance is full of action scenes where most of the time is spent in build up and aftermath. It's obvious how fake the fighting is. The "heroes" show minimal almost pitiful athleticism. Some parts of the fight don't even make it onto the screen when they pull stunts like "look at my face while I kill a guy" instead of "look at me kill a guy" and the classic "it was so fast even the audience couldn't see it" when the killing blow turns into a simple 2 frames; before and after.3. The main characters are simply obnoxious to look at. They are also completely unlikeable. On top of that they are almost never dynamic and never properly introduced. One of the characters has a heat seeking rocket launcher out of nowhere and we're supposed to think "How cool!" and not ask any questions like "who makes a point of carrying around a rocket launcher anyway? And in Old times magical Japan too, when everyone is using katanas still. Today a man with a rocket launcher is a terrorist or something. In the movie's setting though, it would make him Satan himself or something. This same character has God's Final Insult of a mullet. Hate it. The other hero has robes that part to show his inner upper thigh, hairless and smooth. If I'm gonna see man flesh I want it to be hairy and muscular like in 300 dammit. The third character seems to be a complete wuss in comparison because he doesn't fight, and the other 2 are eager to kill everyone in earshot of their meager "hiyaah!"s. I could not force myself to watch too far in, but judging by the first 20 minutes, the middle and end can't have been that great. Overall the highest quality went into the makeup and costumes and props. The acting was bad. The action was bad. The story was bad. Personally I'm not even into Gothic styles and all the black and white color themes grew very tiring. So even though the makeup and costumes were good, they were bad. For someone without my anti-anime bias and an open mind: 3 out of 10 Me: 1 out of 10 For those who cream themselves about anything and everything Japanese: 5 out of 10. Princess Blade and Versus were also bad but way better than this.

kbynum99 It was good in the sense that it kept you interested somewhat because you are watching it to figure out what in the world is going on. There is no plot, there is no reasoning to what and why things are going on. You don't know what era you're in and you don't know who the characters are and where they are from or why they are there. The movie is a mix of everything. But there is a lot of action but it's nothing to be excited about. You won't love it neither will you hate it, but its a watchable movie. In terms of setting it is almost like Lord of the Rings being that it takes place in a forest but with swords and swords that shoot like guns and one person had a motorbike. The best way I can describe this movie is Lord of the Rings meets Inuyasha meets Zombies meets Vampires, meets Samurai Jack gone completely wrong. LOL, hope that helps!

raoul-guariguata Watching a lot of Asian action movies lately I saw the trailer for Death Trance and thought : Wow! Sowrds, motorbikes, guns, bazookas, Breakdance mixed with martial arts. But where was the story. Well, you don't often need a story in Good action flicks, but in this case : it was absolutely senseless. One fight after the other and you don't get why. And for being the ultimate fighter who only seeks destruction I didn't really understand why does Tak leave everybody alive??? The soundtrack really hurts. In movies like Versus and Azumi I felt the heavy rock music entertaining, but here you want to turn the sound off after short time before your ears start to bleed. If you are looking for a modern Japanese action movie go for Azumi, Shinobi, Aragami. But i wouldn't recommend this; except if you are a hardcore trash fan......

running_with_scissors Death Trance is from the action director of Devil May Cry 3, if you've played that game then you should know what to expect!Death Trance is a completely O.T.T. fantasy action movie, a few have criticised the plot but I found it to be good and the humour is genuinely funny which is something that Versus failed at. If you hate the plot then rest assured, it's the crazy action scenes that provide the entertainment and there's plenty of them! My only disappointment with the movie was Steven Seagals son, if he takes after his father then it doesn't show, he has a small action scene at the beginning, and it's nothing special.