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Scrap Heaven (2007)

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Reviews Counted:6

Fresh:3

Rotten:3

Average Rating:5.2/10

Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: This frenetic Japanese import from director Sang-Il Lee (HULA GIRLS) centers on a strange trio and their shared experience on a bus taken over by a terrorist. SCRAP HEAVEN stars Ryo Kase (LETTERS... This frenetic Japanese import from director Sang-Il Lee (HULA GIRLS) centers on a strange trio and their shared experience on a bus taken over by a terrorist. SCRAP HEAVEN stars Ryo Kase (LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA), Joe Odagiri (AZUMI), and Chiaki Kuriyama (the sadistic Gogo Yubari of KILL BILL: VOL. 1). [More]

Starring: Ryo Kase, Joe Odagiri, Chiaki Kuriyama, Akira Emoto

Starring: Ryo Kase, Joe Odagiri, Chiaki Kuriyama, Akira Emoto

Director: Sang-il Lee

Director: Sang-il Lee
Screenwriter: Sang-il Lee
Producer: Suguru Kubota, Masami Yanagihara, Satoshi Kouno, Haruhiko Yoshida
Composer: Aida Shigekazu

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Does not advance much beyond its expected generic elements.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
07/20/07
Eric Monder
Eric Monder
Film Journal International

[Director] Lee also helmed Hula Girls, a clichéd comedy that I hated (one star). With Scrap Heaven, he redeems himself.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
07/18/07
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post

In the writer and director Sang-il Lee’s Scrap Heaven, three strangers share a general dissatisfaction with life -- and a fateful ride aboard a hijacked bus.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
07/18/07
Laura Kern
Laura Kern
New York Times
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Sang-Il Lee's Scrap Heaven stands as something of a companion piece to David Fincher's Fight Club.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
07/17/07
Rob Humanick
Rob Humanick
Slant Magazine

Sang-il Lee's anarchic drama is shot through with spasms of dark comedy, as the lives of three strangers intersect at the point of a gun.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
07/18/07
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

[Director] Lee's visual jazziness and cast are compelling, but nothing can compensate for a deflated, toilet-humored script that negates its potential for sharp social satire with increasingly adolescent and superficial vilifying philosophies.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
07/17/07
Aaron Hillis
Aaron Hillis
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