Rent Branded to Kill (1967)

Uber Cool, Surrealist Gangster Flick... - Branded to Kill review by sw

Just wanted to implore anybody considering renting 'BRANDED TO KILL' to please do so because this is a film experience of rare quality. A stunningly stylish gangster flick that begins quite conventionally and slowly drifts into the surreal, this movie is peppered with great action sequences, absurdist humour and an effortless cool that boggles the mind.

I guarantee, you ain't seen anything quite like this before. In my opinion, a truly great film.

No good-unable to play disc!!!! - Branded to Kill review by NO

Unable to play disc!!!!!!!!I may have been a BLUE RAY not a DVD.Recorder could not read disc.Can you send a replacement Disc?

A Crime Film Having a Nervous Breakdown - Branded to Kill review by griggs

If classic noir is cigarette smoke, guilt, and shadows, this is cigarette smoke, guilt, and a mild concussion. The whole thing struts like it’s auditioning to be the coolest film ever made — and, annoyingly, it often succeeds.

Suzuki shoots assassins like pop art: butterflies pinned to the wall, an advertising balloon turned into a getaway plan, Misako gliding past in a convertible while the rain does its own noir ballet. Then there’s that shot-through-the-drainpipe hit, which is both ridiculous and weirdly pristine. Logic doesn’t vanish so much as get shoved to the edge of the frame.

The catch is the story takes its time to bite. It only really tightens the screws late on, when the rivalry and the stakes finally click into place. Still, even when the plot’s playing hard to get, the style does enough heavy lifting to keep you watching — grinning, slightly baffled, and reminded this is to film noir what Austin Powers is to James Bond.