AllMovie

Perhaps one of the hippest and certainly one of its most prolific directors working in Japan during the late '90s, Takashi Miike masterfully fuses Seijun Suzuki's tweaked pop-art aesthetic with Koji Wakamatsu's pornographic lyricism to direct this exploitation-cum-surrealist flick. Miike creates a world where kiddies in yellow school caps pull .45s; where a poisoning victim explodes in an improbable amount of blood; and where beautiful strippers with lethal genitals prove to be hermaphrodite rapists. While Miike's dizzying inventiveness wows the viewer for the first half of the film, he fails to develop the sort of visual poetry that makes his later masterpieces Dead or Alive and Audition linger in the mind after the lights go up.