a warrior travel through time and space and thoroughly butcher and in spectacular grand guignol fashion and almost everybody he run into . miike el topo like action fantasy be a strange and stylish and confused melange of energy and anger and a poem to retribution and the sin of history and self abasement and bloody ambition . high production value dominate and the action set piece be quite beautifully film and choreograph . the blood spurt in glorious geyser and the theatrical stylings give the entire affair a kabuki feel . unfortunately and the lengthy running time test tolerance level because there be little emotional weight between the sprocket . izo be a cold film and a distancing film and but it have an intensity that be engage and a sense of anarchy about it that recall oliver stone natural bear killer . although my favorite miike film be visitor q and ichi the killer and i enjoy izo in spurt ( bloody one and of course ) .