Chasing Rabbits ... 2017 ... or whatever year edition

I don't remember if I wrote or not a "Chasing Rabbits" entry last year. What I recall is that I wrote one in 2015, in the same hotel near Otopeni airport where I'm now, also having a flight scheduled next early morning and few hours to sleep, but not having much sleep... I don't know what I wrote back then, but I know that this time I'll try something maybe a bit more concise than in the previous.

Fact: some (apparently random) stuff happening in life can be really stupid and maybe unfair.
Idea: fix that.
Tool: time machine.

We can go on forever talking about "playing God" or "messing with the karma". I said concise - and to be concise... karma has its way to get stuff balanced. So, if "the fact" + "the idea" are not fair enough when they're put to work... karma will hit back... at least that's what I think will happen. Now, let's chase the main rabbit = "the tool" ...

I could start rambling about the few tiny bits of physics that I know, but I would probably stop not too far, and no matter how quick that might be I would probably put out still enough bollocks to make this entry really stupid. So, instead of "how to build it", let's try approaching it from the other side. For the sake of argument: let's suppose that tha "the time machine" already exists (that's why is a time machine, right? should abstract away the time around it). Just that I didn't hear anybody reporting any "Terminator" coming from the future through a magic electricity bubble. So, if it exists, its mechanism is probably a bit more... discreet.

There are some options here - depends on how rich is your imagination :) ... But let's just take one: let's put an equal sign between "time travel" and "send a message". In this context "time travel to the future" is something trivial, and enough well developed: from a letter, to an e-mail, and so on. There's still the question about the past. How could you do it at least at a minimal level. 1 bit. An electrical impulse generated at time t that can be interpreted at t-1. If you solve this, as limited as it might be as expressiveness/efficiency, there would be enough to have the "time travel to the past" part = there's "the time machine".

How can you do it?... Don't know :) If I would, life might have been more fair - at least in my eyes. What I know is that I wasn't really in the mood for movies this week, but yesterday at some hour and x minutes, browsing the TV channels I stumbled on "Deja Vu" and a line said by Denzel referring some hour and the ... same x minutes. Now, browsing again some TV channels I stumble upon "Timecop", probably Van Damme's movie that left me the strongest impression when I was a kid. Coincidences can be funny :)... Anyway, what I also know, is that's enough food for thought until the next rabbit chase, whatever year edition might that be...

The Warrior's Way (2010)

I don't have much time today so I'll dive directly into the subject. "The Warrior's Way" is a pretty strange mix between a western and ... "Ninja Assassin" about which I was writing not so long ago. In other words the main idea is pretty similar = we have an assassin who one days gets fed up with his "job", the clan's code of honor, fidelity vows and such stuff and just flees away ... obviously followed by the whole ex-workmates armada who are strongly decided to turn him into chopped sushi.

Although the context is relatively similar, "The Warrior's Way" is after all another story, and this time I should emphasize on the "story". To explain, from the first scene you get a feeling of a sort of "fantasy" having a narrator in the background and a pretty colorful chromatic (but which looks quite ok, so a plus already for the cinematography) and this is kept throughout the whole movie inevitably giving you a light impression of surreal. But, getting back to the actual story, if in "Ninja Assassin" , the "rogue one" had a personal problem with the clan leader and the final purpose of fleeing was a sort of "comeback revenge with guns ... well .. shurikens blazing", here our assassin wants just to simply retire. This, and also he has a fixed idea of guarding the last survivor (a girl of a few months old) from the enemy clan which was supposed to be completely decimated according to his last contract "clause". And considering that Japan is an island = apparently to small to hide, his decision is to emigrate to the west, which is the wild west in this case. And so we get to the action place = a little (almost ghost) town, the headquarters of an unemployed circus collective, place which is periodically raided by an ex-army gang whose members seemingly were left with too much unused ammunition after the Civil War. Well, probably it's already predictable where this state of things leads, our man having no chance to successfully embrace his new flourishing career of owner and main employee of the local public laundry.

I've already said more than enough but there is still to be seen. Without additional details (you can see this however pretty much from the trailer so it's not a spoiler), I can't hold to tell that on the whole salad above you can add also a romance + a certain scent of "Karate Kid". And trust me, there is still more, especially regarding the way the story goes ... Thing, that incredibly enough, leads to the weird mix mentioned in the beginning, which is however quite interesting to watch especially if you didn't expect some "masterpiece" and you just want to see an action movie. As a downside you'll get a ton of cliche and SF-ish scenes, although this part is how to say ... comes in the same package with the action flow = so maybe at some point it would have been more weird to be missing than present. Therefore, the real downside at least for me was another one ... And I have to get back to the comparison with "Ninja Assassin". I think that there maybe due to a less chaotic pace the story was more catchy and like I was writing in that entry, the characters, especially the lead negative one, are pretty well developed. This is pretty true also here, but it's still a difference ... Anyway, for a directorial and screenwriting start (because this is what it is), the result should be appreciated. So, although in my opinion "Warrior's Way" is a bit lower, considering that IMDb underrates them both at pretty much the same level, I will be consistent with what I concluded also for "Ninja Assassin":

Rating: 4 out of 5



PS: Considering that the soundtrack which is in parts close to the Morricone spaghetti western work was replaced in the trailer by something completely different ... I felt the need to give another link, although I don't know for how long it will be valid :