Tôkyô gûru (2017) Reviews

• So Ghoul is a Persian word meaning 'Giant' in Persian

  ysl-519762018-08-06

  What was this? I'll tell you what it was. the thousandth film out there where humans get thrown into the air, get thrown against a wall, fall three stories, are involved ina skidding car accident that goes through a wall.... and .... in all cases... they come out without a scratch or even a headache. Snore Zzzzz It was so cliched and boring I started searching on the net where the word Ghoul comes from!!! Ghouls fight humans and it is a major battle and not one person is around to watch it, witness it or even stick his head out of the window to see what the racket is,the effects are pretty bad (think 2001), the physics makes no sense with the tail and wings becoming huge and then folding back in, a ghoul has everything inside and outside crushed yet she has organs to donate!!? and the special police's weapon looks like a doner kabob spit. Give me a break

• As far as adaptations go, pretty good. Better than AoT at least.

  incurableobsession2017-07-29

  Tokyo Ghoul live action movie is...good. I mean, as far as adaptations go. The movie doesn't skimp out on the blood and guts and for the more queasy, you might not want visit the concession stand or risk losing your popcorn. Easy to follow but suffers like many adaptations with the too much to explain with too little time syndrome. The pacing also had its ups and downs but mostly because of the intensity of some of its key scenes that make the quieter moments quieter. Great acting all around, especially from its mains. Both Kubota and Shimizu play their parts well and, though I can already hear the overacting complaints from others despite Kubota really making a perfect Kaneki with the switches between calm and paranoia. Despite not being the best CGI in the business, it never took me out of the story. I was almost always invested and I can't believe I'm saying this but...I want a second one.

• Probably the worse manga adaptation of the year

  Jithindurden2017-12-24

  It feels like Death Note and Tokyo Ghoul was competing for the worst manga adaptation of the year. The plot comprises of the first 6 episodes of the anime adaptation which comes around in the same running time but the film messes it all up with an unfocused narrative losing any depth in the tale. The acting looks uninspired for the most part which I presume to be the problem of the debutant director's lack of control over the acting. The kagune vfx looks bad but it's probably because they didn't have any idea how else to show it. The actors didn't look right for the parts, som where older while some were younger than they are supposed to be for the characters to work. The first half had a flow even though there wasn't anything great but it was destroyed by choppy editing in the second half. The various levels of conundrums that were deeply explored in the anime look stale and idiosyncratic. This could have been a great film but it was worse than Death Note.

• Melodramatic and Boring

  claudio_carvalho2018-01-06

  In Tokyo, the shy student Kaneki Ken (Masataka Kubota) dates the girl Kamishiro Rize (Yû Aoi) and while in a lonely park, she attacks him since she is a flesh-eater ghoul. Kaneki escapes but soon he learns that he has become a ghoul. He befriends a group of peaceful ghouls and tries to live his new life with them. However they are hunted down by relentless two police officers from the Ghoul Division in charge of eradicate ghouls from their district. "Tôkyô guru", a.k.a "Tokyo Ghoul", is a boring and melodramatic Japanese action-horror film based on the legend of the flesh-eaters ghouls. The cinematography and performances are good, but the action is broken by melodramatic scenes and the film becomes boring. My vote is four. Title (Brazil): Not Available

• Much, much better than expected.

  marethyu2017-09-24

  I personally really enjoyed the film! Admittedly, I am a fan of basically every Tokyo Ghoul adaptation (except rootA), but I even found myself preferring the movie over the anime! It's not exactly going to be an easy film for the uninitiated, though. Many reviewers have noted the lack of explanations for why the ghouls wear masks, which can be figured out by simple logic admittedly. They're killing people, they can't exactly let themselves be seen. Less readily apparent would be what a quinque actually is. They only use the word once throughout, and I can see some audience members being unsure of what's being referred to, so I would recommend reading up a little bit on some of the series' important terms. And yes, the CGI is kinda bad. Not deal-breaking, but it did lose some of the tension, especially in the earliest fight scene. Which is a real shame, since all the actors do a great job of establishing a tragic, violent, and suspenseful tone that really captures the psychological elements so many fans love about the series. Sure, some actors ham it up a bit too much (Nishio and Kaneki's actors in particular go OTT in fight scenes), but there are also some lovely quiet performances from Hinami and Yoshimura's actors. There's also some nice attention to detail for the fans to obsess over, with rips in clothing appearing throughout scenes, and traumatic situations creating an observable impact on character's posture while fighting. I may have mentioned a lot about the fighting, but I hasten to add that the film really shines in its quieter moments, with gorgeous directing and genuinely engaging characters (although maybe that's just my fan side showing through). Some scenes seem to exist exclusively to be developed on in future films, but they're less than a minute or two total, so I didn't really mind that much. Mileage may vary on them though. The film definitely does not take its audience to be dumb, with metaphors that many films would develop into minute-long exposition on the film's themes just set out for the audience to fill it. I had a lot of fun with this movie (as well as my fair share of emotional trauma), and it's a much better adaptation than most recent anime live-actions, or even the anime as far as I'm concerned. Let's hope this applies to the upcoming Ajin film as well.....