Pros: looks and sounds haunting Cons: motivational lacunae, what strike me as cultural misappropriations
This is a haunting and often beautiful film, but, like other Jim Jarmusch films (such as "Dead Man" and "Stranger than Paradise"), its narrative if often frustratingly undermotivated. I have to admit that I didn't think that flying pigeons could be ...
Pros: Forest Whitaker, the soundtrack, interesting and unique direction Cons: some may not like the slow pacing, the hip hop music, the mix of themes
Forest Whitaker is magnificent in Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. The film is intensely well done. It has excellent cinematography and brilliant use of themes that strangely work well together. Ghost Dog: The Way of the ...
Pros: It's just different. Cons: May be too 'artsy' for the general public.
Ghost Dog borrows liberally from about 5 different genres of movie, and while this would easily overwhelm most movies, the patchwork style really pays off here. This movie almost defies description, but I'd classify it as a mildly comedic drama with a...
Pros: A couple laughs Cons: Plot has no purpose / Incredibly slow moving / Direction creates no tension, suspense, or even enjoyment whatsoever
The latest project by writer / director Jim Jarmusch ("Dead Man") is the low-budget, Forest Whitaker vehicle, "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai." I do not understand the high critical praise the film has received, for I can hardly...
This is easily the best "new" movie I have seen lately. It has the rare quality of being visually, artistically, and structurally complete. It is not a "genre" of any sort, and is difficult to label. It exists alone, and to focus on...
Pros: Whitaker's zen-like presence Cons: Excessively weird and meandering
This is my first encounter with a Jim Jarmusch movie, and I have to ask those who've walked his paths before: are the movies always this disjointed? Do they always mix and match tone and theme, creating strange and wondrous (and confusing) dichotomies?...
Pros: Compelling collection of strange and beautiful characters caught in a web of destiny. Cons: Hard to quantify without considerable analysis.
Ghost Dog (1999) Directed by Jim Jarmusch. Ghost Dog, played by Forest Whitaker, is a hit man for the mob. He is also a samurai. This does not seem to be a harmonious combination. He is a car thief, and a philosopher. When he was ...
Pros: Jarmusch's wry wit ans ironic humor. Whitaker's performance. Cons: The music doesn't work for me, but can be overlooked.
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Pros: Forest Whitaker; very effective direction; learn Samurai philosophy and rap appreciation along the way Cons: The ending was a trifle disappointing, but who am I to judge Jim Jarmusch?
Forest Whitaker, in person, is one cool dude. In "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai," as the main character, Ghost Dog, he is even cooler. He's also a passenger pigeon lover, a car thief, a student of Hagakure, the how-to guide for Samurai...
Pros: Forrest Whitaker and an interesting story idea Cons: Slow, plodding and often absurdist
Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is a fascinating flick – an odd hybrid, two parts gangster epic, one part philosophical journey of self-discovery. Forrest Whitaker (Phenomenon) is Ghost Dog, a loner, who considers himself a...
Pros: They kill people and watch cartoons sometimes. Cons: Two hours of your life that you will NEVER be able to get back
Many try to pass this movie off as having symbolic message, many try to pass it off as a work of art, all I want to do is pass it off to someone else so I don't ever have to watch this again.
The preview, which I saw for the first time during...
Between 1991 and 1997, Jim Jarmusch made one exceptional film after another. The best of that bunch was Dead Man, a slow-paced and strange meditation on death that is only nominally a "western". Like Night on Earth before it, that...
Pros: interesting idea Cons: doesn't live up to promise of the idea
Jim Jarmusch’s films have a quiet, understated, simultaneously ticklish and eerie sensibility which more often than not feels inviting instead of off-putting. A running stylistic tendency/gag of his is to have certain characters go about their day with...
Pros: Whitaker's performance and a wonderful supporting cast. Cons: A bit slow to start, and a too conventional ending.
If you think its virtually impossible to create an original film about a hired killer working for the mafia, you have not seen Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai. It's an imperfect film which will probably require about 25 minutes of the average viewers'...
Pros: Good message, Jarmusch's direction, Whitaker's performance Cons: Not for mainstream tastes
"Ghost Dog" would seemingly fall into that genre of stylish, independent action/crime thriller. Sort of like "Desperado" or "The Limey". Yet unlike those films, "Ghost Dog" has a real message, a deeper substance to all the proceedings that makes it a...
East meets West in this hip-hop infused samurai-gangster pic in which Forest Whitaker plays a professional killer who goes by the name of Ghost Dog an...More at Buy.com
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