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The director and action-magician John Woo (Face/Off) can always be counted on to create spectacular violent set pieces, with bodies and broken glass gracefully airborne in slow motion. But everything else in this feature-length TV pilot is grindingly conventional. Woo managed to rise above Jean-Claude Van Damme in Hard Target, but there's not much he can do with Dolph Lundgren's Jack Devlin, a kick-boxing former U.S. Marshall turned bodyguard, assigned to guard the body of a drug-addicted supermodel (Kam Heskin, from TV's Sunset Beach). Between shootouts, the elements of the future series are wheeled creakingly into place: a spacious Ikea deluxe apartment with a built-in armoury, a caustic eye-patched sidekick (Saul Rubinek), and even a precocious freckle-faced girl (Padraigin Murphy) who becomes Devlin's stepdaughter, when his best buddy is rubbed out. The gorgeous showdown scene between Devlin and the psycho-stalker bad guy (Phillip MacKenzie) takes place in a milk-bottling plant, with the white stuff splashing all over--but this is TV fare, so there's no red stuff mixed in. Action addicts are advised to stick with the world-class gunplay films of Woo's Hong Kong period, A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled. --David Chute
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Black Jack is a mysterious surgeon with super-advanced skills who charges large sums of money for performing his operations before vanishing from the scene completely. When a number of Super Humans, with extraordinary mental and physical powers, come to prominence, Black Jack uncovers a conspiracy behind their phenomenon, and discovers that mankind has come under threat from a killer virus.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
After hearing very mixed reviews of this film I was unsure whether or not I should risk viewing it. After finally deciding that I should give it the benefit of the doubt I was pleasantly surprised to find how good it really was. Although there is little action until the movie's climax, it is gripping enough to keep you on the edge of your seat as Dr. Blackjack tries to solve the mysterious disease that effects the people who had once been reffered to as 'Superhumans'. Some of the scenes in Blackjack may be unsuitable to the more squeemish viewers as there is plently of cracked skulls, brain surgery and blood but it is a very thought provoking and interesting anime which explores very modern questions of what is ethical. The animation is also stunning and the English dub is passable so it is well worth watching.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I bought this DVD on a whim with a load of other anime stuff and I was pleasantly surprised by it. The film is set up pretty well, culminating in a great final half hour. The mystery of the illness that inflicts the 'superhumans' is a good basis for the story and the animation is superb, well up to par with other Production I.G. anime, I thought. The English dub was bearable too, but for the best experience I recommend the original Japanese voice actors with subs.
The only real letdown is the ATROCIOUS DVD transfer. I cannot believe that this is remastered - perhaps if the master original was VHS. It is not true widescreen either - a hideous letterbox 4:3 ratio. Thankfully, most dvd players will stretch or zoom it appropriately, but I expect better, although it didn't detract too much from my enjoyment of the film as soon as I had adjusted. But I shouldn't have to adjust, and I couldn't help but feel that if the picture had been sharper the great animation would have stood out even more.
Despite that, this DVD is highly recommended and any fan of anime should enjoy this.
The only real letdown is the ATROCIOUS DVD transfer. I cannot believe that this is remastered - perhaps if the master original was VHS. It is not true widescreen either - a hideous letterbox 4:3 ratio. Thankfully, most dvd players will stretch or zoom it appropriately, but I expect better, although it didn't detract too much from my enjoyment of the film as soon as I had adjusted. But I shouldn't have to adjust, and I couldn't help but feel that if the picture had been sharper the great animation would have stood out even more.
Despite that, this DVD is highly recommended and any fan of anime should enjoy this.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Doctor Blackjack is a brilliant, but uncertified surgeon who, for an immense fee, performs impossible surgery unofficially.
Two years ago, at the atlanta olympics, a whole string of world records was broken, and not by a bit. Soon these superhumans appear all over the world, nobodies at first, then suddenly performing tasks far beyond any normal person's ability.
The problem is, these people seem to get extremely ill after a few years, or months even: they rot away on the inside.
This is where doctor blackjack comes in: he's hired by a pharmaceutical company to find a cure... but finds himself intwined in a horrible conspiracy!
I personally like this film a lot, it's calmer than the average anime, everything in it is very precise, very 'surgical'. There's no humour in it, no action, its pure psychological suspense.
That added with the fascintating medical procedures you're shown ( ER doesn't even come close ) and class A animation makes this a worthwile DVD.
There are no dvd extra's, and the film itself is a bit slow, but besides that there's nothing really negative to say about this DVD.
It's no 'ghost in the shell', but certainly belongs in any respectable anime collection.
Two years ago, at the atlanta olympics, a whole string of world records was broken, and not by a bit. Soon these superhumans appear all over the world, nobodies at first, then suddenly performing tasks far beyond any normal person's ability.
The problem is, these people seem to get extremely ill after a few years, or months even: they rot away on the inside.
This is where doctor blackjack comes in: he's hired by a pharmaceutical company to find a cure... but finds himself intwined in a horrible conspiracy!
I personally like this film a lot, it's calmer than the average anime, everything in it is very precise, very 'surgical'. There's no humour in it, no action, its pure psychological suspense.
That added with the fascintating medical procedures you're shown ( ER doesn't even come close ) and class A animation makes this a worthwile DVD.
There are no dvd extra's, and the film itself is a bit slow, but besides that there's nothing really negative to say about this DVD.
It's no 'ghost in the shell', but certainly belongs in any respectable anime collection.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
2.0 out of 5 stars
Dissappointing
I bought the film based on the good reviews it got here on Amazon, but I was disappointed, and I don't think it was because of my high expectations either. Read more
Published on 25 Oct 2008 by Anine
4.0 out of 5 stars
blackjack is cool
blackjack is a worthy addition to any anime fans collection,,it has a good story and the animation is good.. Read more
Published on 1 Aug 2008 by Cs Ives
2.0 out of 5 stars
Well... interesting concept...
OK. To start with the good stuff...
The plotline is very original. How many anime/mangas have you seen/read that are about doctors? None. Good. Read more
The plotline is very original. How many anime/mangas have you seen/read that are about doctors? None. Good. Read more
Published on 30 Dec 2004 by Valgaav
5.0 out of 5 stars
Thrilling
A mysterious and un-licenced surgeon by the name Black Jack is faced with a hideous 'epidemic', sports men and women are breaking new world records by the second in the Atlanta... Read more
Published on 3 July 2003 by "genius_washu"
4.0 out of 5 stars
WELL ANIMATED DRAMA
This movie well animated.
its about a talented doctor who fights aginst a company that manufacture a drug that makes human super abillies but then kills them. Read more
its about a talented doctor who fights aginst a company that manufacture a drug that makes human super abillies but then kills them. Read more
Published on 25 Mar 2003
3.0 out of 5 stars
Styled violence
Even in minor productions, such as this made-for-TV movie, chinese director John Woo shows his talent as the contemporary master of slow-motion camera. Read more
Published on 20 Dec 2000 by Cassio A Francisco
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