#Kite 2014 film full

She poses as a prostitute in her boldly colored wig and lures the men in with her sexual offerings. Our protagonist is the young vigilante Sawa (India Eisley), fighting her one-woman war against the flesh dealers to avenge her dead parents. I guess that backdrop makes the abundance of mobsters and nightclubs more acceptable. It seems like a more likely future free of robots and holograms, but most of the setting sounds like the present even without the economic crash.

The world has just suffered an economic collapse and society has crumbled to a world of flesh cartels and vicious gangs.

The setting seems to have shifted from Japan to South Africa (never stated, but that’s where it was filmed). In reality, it’s a bland mess of an action picture drowned in cliché and confusion.

#Kite 2014 film full

Perhaps the producers of the Kite remake somehow thought that the talent would come full circle. Tracing its inspiration, an obvious suspect would be Luc Besson’s Leon The Professional, a sub-par American remake of Besson’s superior action picture La Femme Nakita. So disturbingly pedophelic were these sexual encounters that the general release had to be edited down severely with the “director’s cut” being released under a pornography affiliate. The original source material was a one-hour, over-the-top action romp with ridiculously violent fights and overly graphic sex scenes. Of all the Japanese animated movies to adapt for a live-action presentation, Kite confuses me.