Samuel L. Jackson starring in a live-action version of a cult girl-sassin anime may look great on paper and sound awesome as a pitch, but the result here - with Kite (headed to VOD and theaters on October 10th) - is an ugly, boring trudge of a movie. As it turns out, when you redo anime with actual actors you draw express attention to the fact that the story is often obtuse and dull - and is only palatable via the vessel of the style and tone of the animation that anime provides.
Kite, based Yasuomi Umetsu’s hour-long anime from over fifteen years ago (which Tarantino has said was an influence for some of his Kill Bill saga), takes place in a corrupt dystopian future, post-global financial collapse. Or, for our purposes, Johannesburg. Which already stands in, as it is now, for dilapidated future cityscapes. And since Joburg was home to the production, it's also the actual location of the movie, I assume, as everyone in it, from cops to crooks, is South African. Save for the three leads, which itself only works to remove/separate Jackson's Aker and India Eisley's Sawa from the functioning world of the movie.
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