Miike's 'Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo' Called a 'Complete Nonstarter' — SkimNews
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- "Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo" is the second re-imagining of Abel Ferrara's 1992 neo-noir "Bad Lieutenant," which starred Harvey Keitel.
- Takashi Miike directed the new film, which borrows the broad strokes of the 1992 original but tells its own Yakuza-centric story.
- The review calls Miike's film "baffling" and says the story "never fully gets going."
- The film is criticized for a "stop-start approach" — though the published source text cuts off mid-sentence before the full critique is shown.
Why it matters: The negative verdict on Miike's loose remake — called a "complete nonstarter" in the headline — underscores how transplanting Ferrara's 1992 cult property into a Yakuza setting, without a coherent engine, can fail to launch even with a prolific genre director at the helm.
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