In a world with no guns, a mysterious drifter, a bartender and a young samurai plot revenge against a ruthless leader and his army of thugs, headed by nine diverse and deadly assassins.
"Bunraku" is so desensitizing with its hyper-stylized distractions and movie references it feels more mush-up than mash-up.
– Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Sep 2011
rotten:
A potpourri of genres that ends up a morass of cliches.
– Andy Webster,
New York Times,
29 Sep 2011
rotten:
Extremely cool-looking in the manner of "Sin City,'' but clumsily staged, slackly acted and mind-numbingly dull...
– Lou Lumenick,
New York Post,
30 Sep 2011
rotten:
It's not difficult to see why this movie - which reportedly cost $25 million - has been looking for a release date since it was finished more than three years ago.
– Stephen Whitty,
Newark Star-Ledger,
30 Sep 2011
rotten:
It should surprise no one that visually quirky, graphic-novelish, pulp-noir action flicks rarely come through the sausage machine intact.