Lupin the Third: Fujiko Mine's Lie (2019) User Reviews

Fujiko Mine gets a moment to shine once again.

[cherold · 8/10 · 7 October 2022]

After the TV series A Woman Called Fujiko Mine, there were three hour-long videos that were positioned as part of the same series. The first two were sequels only in the sense that they also had violence and nudity, but they lacked everything that made the Fujiko Mine series so interesting.

Fujiko's Lie is closer to that original series. The focus is back on Fujiko, who is sexy and complex and awful and sympathetic. And the story is more compelling and with more genuine emotion than the two before.

It's as though the people who made these "sequels" made two before watching the Fujiko Mine series and then were like, oh, we got this totally wrong, let's do an actual sequel.

Another great film from Koike

[rassberrymilkshake · 9/10 · 27 October 2020]

If there's one thing I love about Koike's IIIRD movies, it's that they break up the monotony of the franchise. I'm a complete Lupin obsessive, but godamn I get sick of it sometimes. Same tone, same rinse and repeat formula year after year, I love these characters to death but even I'm gonna get tired of seeing them do the same thing over and over. Koike's films (well, two and a half of them, we don't talk about the other half of Gravestone) put these characters in a fresh new setting; sleek, sexy and suave crime drama. While (half of) Gravestone and Bloodspray are focused more on reinventing typical Lupin capers under a new light, Fujiko's Lie combines this with some juicy, juicy actual character exploration. Is Fujiko so irredeemable that she'll ditch a innocent, dying kid for money in order to "teach him a lesson"? Spoilers: Yes, because that's the standard the show's set up for her over the last 50 years. It's stuff like this that makes this film so unique, even among Koike's other Lupin films. He takes the character of Fujiko and uses this new, more human and emotional lens to explore her. Also Lupin and Jigen are just... so gay it's insane. I mean.... "Your whimsical too" "Your one to talk" You really can't make this stuff up. These two cool crime boyfriends have stolen my heart all over again.

Barely feels like Lupin III due to bland villains and annoying protagonists

[erearchetek · 5/10 · 10 February 2020]

I love Lupin III and have seen almost all of the movies and series up until this newest iteration but this is by far my least favorite of any.

Taking a movie about Fujiko and turning into a sob story centered around an annoying child (who does not stop whining or crying throughout the entire show) is a crime against humanity all by itself, but the fact that they gave her a villain that belongs in Naruto is even worse.

The vibe and voice of Lupin III has been consistently great for so long, I guess it was about time they swung and missed.