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Wasabi

For those who take their action raw.

2001 · 1h 34m · R Action, Comedy, Drama
Directed by Gérard Krawczyk

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Overview

Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace.

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43%
Tomatometer
Rotten

The movie fails to live up to the sum of its parts.

Judith Prescott, Hollywood Reporter
Fresh

The film is a contrivance, as artificial as the video games Japanese teens play in a nightclub sequence, but it's an enjoyable one.

Matt Weitz, Dallas Morning News
Rotten

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.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten

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.

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Fresh

One scarcely needs the subtitles to enjoy this colorful action farce.

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

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