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09/21/05
Wasabi (2002)
45 %
Reviews Counted: 42 Fresh: 19 Rotten:23 Average Rating: 5.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Synopsis: This boisterous crime-cop dramedy is written and produced by Luc Besson and stars Jean Reno. Like THE PROFESSIONAL (the 1994 Besson-Reno film), it is the story of a man with a grim, lonely life and a penchant for violence who finds redemption in a needy, spirited young girl who forces him to have... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Jean Reno, Michel Muller, Ryoko Hirosue, Carole Bouquet, Ludovic Berthillot
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I keep renting Jean Reno films and I'm beginning to forget why I started doing so.
05/26/04
Action star (and fine dramatic actor) Jean Reno has fallen prey to the Action Comedy conceit and the result is the periodically entertaining, generally tiresome Wasabi.
11/11/03
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03/16/03
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Wasabi is one of the best times I’ve had lately enjoying a movie that has no regard for a plot.
02/03/03
Been there, done that, liked it much better the first time around - when it was called The Professional.
11/15/02
The film is a contrivance, as artificial as the video games Japanese teens play in a nightclub sequence, but it's an enjoyable one.
11/14/02
Reno does what he can in a thankless situation, the film ricochets from humor to violence and back again, and Ryoko Hirosue makes us wonder if she is always like that.
10/20/02
Top Critic
Like being trapped inside a huge video game, where exciting, inane images keep popping past your head and the same illogical things keep happening over and over again.
10/17/02
If you sometimes like to go to the movies to have fun, Wasabi is a good place to start.
10/12/02
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