I rented the Seven Samurai and Rojo Sangre was in the box. Not wanting to drive all the way back to the video store, I watched it. Rojo Sangre is absolutely terrible. The plot is pulled along on a fishhook, with no reason for one event to follow the next.
Key plot points are introduced with lines like: "here is the address of where to buy the finest cutlery".
Jumping all over the place. Rojo Sangre tries to do too much with too little. What begins as an investigation into one man's rejection and subsequent madness turns into a quasi-spiritual hacker slasher which fails at both. Rojo Sangre draws the worst parts of Devil's Advocate, Eye's Wide Shut, and I Know What You Did Last Summer into a contrived flop.
Rojo Sangre attempts to make up for this failure by including needless cruelty, and an affair that goes nowhere. The opening scene has the main character describing putting a live mouse in his ass. And yet no mention is made later of any sexual issues. The movie is laden with cheap tricks of this sort. And and the photoshop transitions ruin even the thin mood this film was able to muster. Not worth a bother.
Key plot points are introduced with lines like: "here is the address of where to buy the finest cutlery".
Jumping all over the place. Rojo Sangre tries to do too much with too little. What begins as an investigation into one man's rejection and subsequent madness turns into a quasi-spiritual hacker slasher which fails at both. Rojo Sangre draws the worst parts of Devil's Advocate, Eye's Wide Shut, and I Know What You Did Last Summer into a contrived flop.
Rojo Sangre attempts to make up for this failure by including needless cruelty, and an affair that goes nowhere. The opening scene has the main character describing putting a live mouse in his ass. And yet no mention is made later of any sexual issues. The movie is laden with cheap tricks of this sort. And and the photoshop transitions ruin even the thin mood this film was able to muster. Not worth a bother.