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Release Date: 25 April, 2000 Retail Price: $24.95 OUR Price: $21.99 You SAVE: $2.96! Cast: |
Kite Reviews
OUCH!!! ...And I thought "ARMITAGE III" was bad!
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It's a rare anime feature that moves me to rate it with the lowest marks possible, but this one accomplished the once-thought impossible!
The premise sounds intriguing enough: A girl left orphaned after the double homicide of her parents is taken in (in more ways than one) by a couple of psychos with vigilante desires who groom her to become their instrument of assassination. Their targets tend to be high-profile members of society & public figures who have a tendency to stay just enough out of reach of the law to prevent being legally apprehended and paying the necessary penalties for their criminal misdeeds (child sexual abuse and related activities being high on their list). But suspicion mounts that she may be just being manipulated like a puppet and that the people she's being instructed to kill (all men, of course) may not necessarily be everything she is being informed that they are.
Unfortunately, the execution (no pun intended) of the story & action, the lack of character development, the limited (almost non-existent) background & motivational information on the girl's "mentor(s)", the totally contrived plot devices, and the highly & irritatingly irrational action sequences (extremely absurd even by typical "anime" standards) makes this feature-length OAV the biggest animation TURKEY I have ever had the privilege(?) of viewing. Even the (very lame) "fan service" scenes cannot make up for its lack of interesting story and action. (Apparently, this is not the true "unrated" version as indicated, since reviewers make references to more graphic & disturbing "hentai" scenes. Still doesn't change my opinion of the whole thing, however.) Okay, I'll admit that it scores a couple of minor points for its visuals & animation, but that's about the only thing of any material substance I can come away with from this loser. In essence, if anime features were rides at the carnival, "KITE" would be the merry-go-round -- without any accompanying lights or music.
Normally, something clocking in at only 45 minutes would get a point for "fair consideration" from me because of the feature's not being given enough time to really allow an indepth story to unfold (e.g., "PLASTIC LITTLE," which I actually like, despite its oversaturation of needless "fan service" which serves no purpose), but I give NO such consideration for "KITE" -- I believe that any additional amount of time given to this animated drama would have made it only that much worse than it already is.
Not an outright "zero-stars" junker, but I cannot in all good conscience rate it anything higher than a "one-and-a-half" at best.
Promising, but the ending ruined the movie.
To be honest, I found this movie because of the hentai, then decided to buy it for the same reason. While the action and hentai was alright, I followed the story pretty well.
But towards the end I was getting excited, I was thinking "Awesome, after all of that, I wonder what the outcome will be like." and next thing I know I find myself depressed and confused at the ending. I understand that it's a dark movie and it was suppose to end dark, but you'd figure after the characters went through so much that they would at least deserve some kind of peace or happiness. Instead you're left wondering what happen after the movie ended. (Although you can probably come to some conclusion as to what happen.) But it's still annoying to sit through all that for basicly nothing.
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