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  Review by Ben ★★

  A good film is hidden somewhere within Tetsuo: The Bullet Man, but it ends up being a disappointing conclusion to a beloved cyberpunk series. Tsukamoto's trademark shaky camerawork is here and jarring as ever. Chu Ishikawa provides a perfect pulsating score. The character design for The Bullet Man is cool. The desaturated presentation is somewhat pleasing, too. With these ingredients for a decent film in the mix, what held it back from being as great as the two films that preceded it?

  Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Tetsuo II: The Body Hammer are excellent mood pieces. Rage, punk rock sensibilities, and anxieties are combined and presented as all-out assaults on the senses. The films are violent, erotic, and chaotic, and…

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  Review by Deen4 ★ 8

  Debí hacerle caso a @Henrique y evitar mirar esto.

  He visto gente decir que el live action de Devilman es la peor película japonesa y yo después de ver esto les diré: Nah.
  Shinya Tsukamoto como director siguió manejando una trama totalmente distinta a su primer película,lo hizo en la segunda y aquí es peor. Los efectos visuales ya no me causan nada,nada de repulsión,nada de incomodidad, ¿Siquiera esto sigue contando como body horror? Para ser un hombre de hierro,parece un hombre de plástico. El guión es terrible,esto de los lazos familiares o ser el elegido ya me tiene hasta la madre. La película parece que tuvo más presupuesto y aún así es la que peor se ve XD ¿Cómo…

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  Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★

  Severely underwhelmed by this lackluster affair! My eyes never once popped out of my head and I never had to pick my jaw up off the floor like I did with the Original!

  The ONLY good thing I can say about the film is the original track during the closing credits was done by Nine Inch Nails!

  Final Word: The red headed stepchild of the Tetsuo film franchise!

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  Review by Sethsreviews ★½

  Pretty much just a terrible English-language Hollywood continuation of a popular hyper-violent dystopian film series that feels like a small-scale, washed-down comic book film. Even if I'm not a huge fan of the prior two, this one lacks the abrasiveness and strange creativity that they offered. Very, very cheap.

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  Review by Realkinoshit ★★

  You’re enemy is in your mind

  I still love Shinya Tsukamoto's visual style, but this movie made me feel like it's just a chaotic, low-budget superhero film.

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  Review by Graham ★½ 6

  It’s unclear what possessed director Shinya Tsukamoto to revive Tetsuo for a third, US based instalment of his body horror classic, but I’m guessing it was the potential pay check from a new audience. 

  Unfortunately, from the second that Eric Bossick first opens his gob it’s clear this is a train wreck waiting to happen. According to IMDB, this is the only film in the series in which male genitalia isn't shown. I beg to differ. 

  Such a shame that a franchise with such a cult following chose this path. Honestly, I reckon an anime would have been a much better idea. Or just, you know, leave it be. 

  The Bullet Man? Yeah, nah. This is mostly just uninspiring junkyard fodder packed with convoluted narrative, dizzying fast-moving camerawork and lazy performances. The Nine Inch Nails theme is a banger though 🎧

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  Review by Noah Cassidy ★ 3

  Welcome to the new chapter in the history of iron!

  Oh no, Shinya, honey, what did you do? At the very least, he went ahead and gave us a glimpse of what an American remake of Tetsuo would look and feel like: Drab and aggravating. It's absolutely if the original and the sequel were done without much of the care that Shinya often puts into his work. I often enjoy his shaky cam cinematography, but here it's unbearable. Moments of action and even basic conversations can be hard to sit through and even harder to comprehend. Put that together with poor editing, terrible acting, bland dialogue, and the sound design being grating in the worst way possible, I was almost…

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  Review by DamRibeiro ★★★ 4

  Chegando no último filme da trilogia Tetsuo me deparo com uma obra que deixa e desejar, mas por conta da própria direção de Tsukamoto ainda mantém seu brilho especial, seu estilo único que mistura o cyberpunk com body horror permite se aprofundar em um universo não tão convencional repleto de alegorias insanas e existenciais, o homem bala conta a história de um pai traumatizado que após perder seu filho desperta seus poderes sobre-humanos, o peso de possuir um poder além da compreensão humana gera nele uma adrenalina interminável, dessa vez Tsukamoto nos revela o laboratório que está por trás de tudo, fazendo seu protagonista ir atrás de respostas enquanto lida com um antagonista já bem conhecido, suas narrativas são bem…

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  Review by 🪐 moonbeam mookie 👽 ★★★★

  here goes the end of the tetsuo trilogy and of a wonderful metallic ride across the years.
  i was wary of that entry since 2000s horror can be pretty hit or miss but knowing tsukamoto has been at the helm for the entire trilogy, i was quickly reassured.
  while i found the 3rd movie to be a bit less poignant and striking, it still grants us amazing visuals with that same grey, dull palette that i really enjoy. it really speaks to me. for some reason.
  this one easily makes you feel oppressed between the walls of the house, with barely any scenes outside but also inside the main character, stuck in this metallic carcass. what a treat!
  i know…

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  Review by Edgar Cochran ✝️ ★★★½ 10

  Japanese talking in English...

  I've been through there many times. My first painful time happened with Miike. It forces you to turn on the subtitles so you can grasp every line of unclear dialogue. It's an attempt of Japanese filmmakers to catch a portion of the western box-office profits and expand their cinematic ideologies to a broader range of audiences that, stereotypically, hate reading subtitles. For some bizarre, yet not very illogical reason, the narrative structure and plot synopsis resemble more the formulaic tendencies of U.S. sci-fi/horror action films, losing their eastern essence of originality.

  Anyway, about the film, it's a shame that Tsukamoto's hyperactive cyberpunk ultraviolence with MTV/heavy metal tendencies is undermined by its plot structure and increasing sentimentality…

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  Review by Bob McCully ★★½ 17

  Wow. Y'all weren't kidding about this one.

  Shinya Tsukamoto's third Tetsuo film has a bad rep and rightfully so. Taking the core idea of the first two masterpieces and converting it into an English-language gothic-superhero film that makes no sense. Usually when a Tsukamoto film doesn't make any sense, I have a grin on my face and I'm lost in the lush and singular world he's created.
  Not here. Nope.

  The dialogue is so bad, the acting is painful, the cinematography is so ugly and shaky, and it all just made me feel sad. At first I thought I could chuckle my way through the bad parts for those rare glimpses of stylized metalloid madness... but even those spare moments…

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  Review by DungeonSkramz ★ 3

  Tetsuo: The Iron Man is undoubtedly one of my all-time favorite films and it introduced me to the mastermind Shinya Tsukamoto. Lately, I've tried to go through his entire filmography, but in the back of my head I felt worried to watch The Bullet Man because of the reputation it had. Well, everyone, we've officially hit the bottom of the barrel.

  I feel Tsukamoto is at his best when he's uncompromising and sticks true to his visions. But I don't get that impression from this film. What I see is someone trying desperately to appeal to the foreign market but in the process losing most of what made the original entries so beloved. Having the main character be caucasian and…