I think there's going to be so many stories coming out of those shenanigans

Oh s[BLEEP]t that looks great

Really?

Plot:: A Japanese girl is thrown into a quest for vengance after a band of thieves kills her father, mistakenly believing that she and him had stolen their gold.

On paper this sounds good, but in reality it's not. The movie doesn't know what it wants to be. A slow-moving arthouse piece that takes its time revealing the plot, or an action film that shows her overcoming danger to get revenge. It tries to do both and fails at both. It moves so slowly and keeps the action so low-key that after 2/3rds of the movie when our protagonist (who has been fleeing from them all film) finally turns around to fight back, she disposes of them all quickly with vritually no effort or tension. She doesn't even get a final showdown with the "boss", instead having a brief conversation with him before he dies that I suppose the writers thought was philosophical. In fact, in this movie, the bad guys end up killing themselves through internecine fighting more than she ends up taking out.

It could either have been a thoughtful piece on the cost of human greed, the regrets of youth and the loss of family, or a tale of blood-soaked revenge and it was neither. It was a muddled mess that could have really used the hand of a script editor. half out of two dragonballs for this section

Visuals: The lush scottish landscape, forest and sets are all beautiful and well-done. Nothing looks cheap here at all. It's too bad the movie didn't make good use of the setting (like using the forest for cat-and-mouse battles, for example). One and one half Dragonballs out of two

Audio: A mostly-forgettable score. The film actually starts with a plodding "chase" scene through the forest that's the whole band of thieves plodding across the ground to the same violin riff repeated at least ten times. It was nothing of note. One half dragonball out of two..

Overall Feeling: Not engaging. Not emotionally investing. Leaves one feeling profoundly dissatisfied at the film it could have been but wasn't. Zero out of two dragonballs.

My overall score for Tornado is [b]two and a half dragonballs out of seven[b].





The protagonist likes to say "I am Tornado [...] remember my name", and I will, but not for the reason I think the filmmakers wanted.

I don't know. And it's sad because the actors did good work. This was completely down to the failure of the script and / or the final edit. Save your money, watch something else.