Hindi SixString Samurai

Hindi Six-String Samurai

In the post-apocalyptic world of 1960s Nevada, a rock 'n' roll samurai on his way to Lost Vegas takes a young orphan boy under his protection as Death and his metalhead Horsemen chase after them.
A mysterious and powerful hero of the classic kind, Buddy is as skilled with his guitar as he is with his samurai sword. Thrown together with a kid whom he saves in a spectacular battle, the two of them must now escape their enemies and reach "Lost Vegas," the rock 'n' roll capital of this future world.
***Warning: Contains mild spoilers***<br/><br/>Well, what can you say about this picture? Does it have good acting? Certainly not. Does it have a good story? No. Is it watchable? Strangely, it is (once anyways).<br/><br/>The micro-formula for the movie can be reduced to this: Hero finds kid and tries to get rid of him. Kid is thereby brought into a position where he will be in danger from random weirdly dressed group. Kid screams. Hero returns and dispatches group with repeated (and repetitive) sword action. Hero wants to leave. Kid screams. Kid finds some random form of transportation, fixes it and is taken along by hero. Cut to &#39;Death&#39; group, that chases our hero, killing some random guy.<br/><br/>Rinse. Repeat. (Ad nauseam)<br/><br/>So why did I not turn it off after the third or fourth repetition? Simply because I wanted to find out what weirdly dressed up group would enter next.<br/><br/>The music is strange. Swordfighting to boogie or polka feels...weird. The music used in Quentin Tarantino flicks for similar scenes is &#39;fitting&#39; by comparison. The dialog (what little there mercifully is of it) isn&#39;t worth listening to. Some of it even doesn&#39;t make sense given the &#39;history&#39; they had set up in the opening credits. The kid, thank god, only screams and doesn&#39;t talk too much else.<br/><br/>Not to spoil the climax or anything, but did anybody else think the resolution to the final fight was bizarre? At that point I might have suspected that the movie was supposed to be a spoof - if it had been funny at any other time prior to that.<br/><br/>So I&#39;ll give it a 4/10. You can rent and watch it once. The movie will probably be -barely- worth the fee for you.
If you&#39;re looking for something with the apocalyptic bite of Mad Max, this isn&#39;t it but if your looking for Beach Blanket Bingo meets a Boy and his Dog with a smattering of Thunder dome, you&#39;ll dig this wacky flick.<br/><br/>The story is simple - man on quest to become king of a waste land, defends orphaned boy and fights off post apocalypse mutants - classic stuff. The characters don&#39;t develop too far beyond the surface and the casting is pretty typical of a film of this kind but the photography quality, camera angle choices and most of the editing is excellent, right up there with the best of them.<br/><br/>It plays like a 90 minuted &quot;Kids in the Hall&quot; music video skit with a few parodies of other classic films thrown in for good measure.<br/><br/>To watch, disengage brain, nuke up some corn (maybe even have a few shots) and get ready to boogie on the beach, it&#39;s a fun romp.

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