Moon Child (2003)

Summary: Through time we meet Sho, Kei, Yi-Che and her brother, Son who gravitate to various sides of a gang war in their part of town, eventually escalating to them taking opposite sides. Someone will win, someone will lose...but one of them is a vampire.           Overall: I wasn’t sure what the film was trying to do because the film jumps about 5 times to different years and decades. We meet these characters about every 30 minutes at different ages and frankly, it gets confusing. Especially whenever they then flashback to other events. Essentially we have 2+ hours of relationships and friendships, coming together and drifting apart and the one lady in between it all. But even then, the film has issues. The vampire angle was completely misused until practically the end. For most of it, you’d be shocked the film had vampires because no one gets bit and everyone is shooting each other. In addition, the whole story could have been trimmed to maybe 90 minutes if you removed all the various time changes and maybe instead threw in an occasional flashback, rather than spending whole chunks of time on plots that later barely make a difference. Sorry, but this film really didn’t do anything at all but take up time…and give American audiences looks at 2 Japanese Rock-Stars…the Justin Timberlake’s of our time. It’s not an awful movie…no way at all. Just seemed like it lost focus. If you do get into it, you may indeed enjoy it and fall for the characters. However, I didn’t.           Comparison: Another Public Enemy meets Interview with a Vampire

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