Let's all take a minute to let the idea of a third Tetsuo film sink in. That's right, a third entry in the avant-industrial-horror-saga by Shinya Tsukamoto. Let's all remember how awesome Tsukamoto's VITAL - his best work to date and one of the best films of all time - is, how disturbed SNAKE OF JUNE left us in our seats, how shocking HAZE explored our most inner fears, how utterly scary and beautiful GEMINI was... and let's remember, that NIN are doing the OST for TETSUO 3.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
This is awesome...
And as I sat down in my seat, opened a box of Sushi and started to eat, no way could I have ever imagined this to be the most painful film of the festival.
It's not that TETSUO 3 is bad. No, it isn't. If you get over the (intentionally) ridiculous plot, it's a lot of fun. Seizure inducing, messy, autism like fun.
But after some 50 minutes, I had to run out of the cinema. Screaming.
TETSUO 3 is one of the most over the top films I have ever seen. The action sequences are eardrum shattering, the visuals seizure inducing (you can't mention this one enough), the plot completely clueless of what it is or what it wants to be. Tsukamoto may have had fun with this, but it comes off like the work of a person suffering from autism - the director doesn't care what ends up on screen, he just does whatever he thinks is right in his head. Belonging rather in a museum of avant-gare video art than into a cinema - TETSUO 3 is a baffling, loud, messy and maybe even pointless affair, a techno DJ-set in film form, or something. It can be enjoyed, but the same goes for getting a tongue piercing. Personally, I would rate the film a 7, but the experience of watching it a 3. Maybe I will like, or "understand", this when it comes out on DVD, but as of now, I am deeply disturbed.
Rating - 5/10
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