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Score (1995)

Dir: Atsushi Muroga.

First off there is nothing, at all, original about this flick.
We have what is really a Japanese version of "Reservoir Dogs" with bits of "Natural Born Killers", "Hard Boiled" and "Face/Off" thrown in!
Made in 1995, it's by Atsushi Muroga, who would go on to Direct "Junk".

It's the tale of a crook called 'Chance' (Hitoshi Ozawa, from "Dead or Alive" and Tikano's "Boiling Point") who is forced by a Yakusa boss called 'The Colonel' to do a series of robberies.
This final heist is meant to clear his debt.

Chance recruits three other men for the job...but 'The Colonel' has told 'Chance'that the rest of the gang shall be killed after.
One of the gang is wounded during the heist (shades of Mr Orange) and the gang meet up at an old, deserted factory to await the arrival of 'The Colonel' who will bring their money for the stolen jewels.

But, the gang has been followed by a male and female psycho couple who plan on taking the loot themselves...

 

We have everything but the kitchen sink here.
We have a gang dressed in white shirts with black suits and ties, waiting for the boss sequences, who can you trust sequences, fallings out and double crosses...It is basically the bastard off-spring of a Tarantino/Woo film.

There's loads of fast edit gunplay, with the odd slow mo bit, jumping around with 2 fisted gun action, flying through the air sideways while blasting weapons, multi gun pointing face offs. Everything is thrown into the mix.

We have the loading guns either side of the wall sequence from "Face/Off" which leads to the blasting along through the glass scene from "Hard Boiled". Not a single original idea...but put together they all add up to one hell of a fun time action flick.

And this baby delivers the gory action groceries in spades!!
Major sized bullet hits fountain and spurt forth great globs of blood; bodies are drilled and filled.
A shotgun hit on one man has about 3 separate entrance and exit wounds that pour forth a crimson tide!

So there is nothing original here, but the execution is taken one step further than the films it mimics. Resulting in a 'switch the brain off', but a hell of a lot of fun, non-stop gory action fest.

Well worth a look.