What I Watch I Review: The Kiss Short Film

The Kiss is an Australian short film that can be seen on Amazon.

On their way home, perhaps from a party and seemingly drunk, two female best friends decide to climb into a huge water tank. There, they have fun swimming around and playing pranks with some lesbian overtones. All is fun until one actually drowns, leaving the other to scream for help where there is none.

There are nice things about The Kiss: the production values are good and the performances shine. The two actresses truly feel like best friends.

The thing is, the overall story falls a little flat. It just doesn’t feel like there was enough to this story, like it was missing a scene or a few more minutes.

This short film is worth a viewing, but just don’t be surprised if you come away feeling like it just didn’t quite get there.

Rating: 5.5

What I Watch I Review: SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO

Director: Takashi Yamazaki

Screenwriter: Shimako Sato

Starring: Tsutomu Yamazaki; Takuya Kimura; Meisa Kuroki; Toshiro Yanagiba

Based upon: SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO anime series, also known as the North American edited Star Blazers.

I am vaguely familiar with the SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO anime series. I know I watched episodes as a child (probably the Star Blazers version), but don’t remember much. So, for this, my view wasn’t tainted by love or hate for the anime.

The film is the epitome of an eye-candy, popcorn, special effect extravaganza, leave-your-brains-at-the-door, film event.

SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO is a gorgeous and glorious film filled with space battles, great special effects, awesome actions scene and great camera work. Production values are top notch.

(You knew this was coming, right?) What is not gorgeous and glorious about SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO? The plot is virtually non-existent, and the script is poor with only the barebones of a story which hits all the highlights and nothing else. Everything that happens is by the book and overly predictable, and not in a good way.

There is little actual acting in the film, but to be honest the actors are not given much to work with. The characters are typical stock characters with little personality, no depth and just serve to get us from one special effects to another.

If you a fan of the anime, I believe you can skip this film. I don’t think you’re missing anything.

Okay, to be honest, I think everyone can skip this film.

RATING: 4