before watch this film and i be aware of a great deal of negativity ( hence the low rating ) and and so i sit down to watch izo with a great deal of trepidation . but what a film . i just do not see how the majority of the negativity could be justify . certainly and izo be highly incomprehensible with little or no plot . it be also sickeningly violent in place . however and this be a takashi miike film be talk about and not some safe and conventional film . therefore and when people sit down to watch one of his film and surely it be a give that it be not go to be an easy ride . and yet the negativity come from professed fan of his film . a i be watch the film it occur to me that this film maker and famed for the violent and bizarre content of his film and who seem keen on shock his audience and must have increase difficulty shock anyone and a more fan follow his work . how many more bodily fluid can he drown his film in and after the taboo smash visitor q. how more out there can he become after the bizarre gozu . be it any wonder that izu be so bizarre . you can not blame the guy for push at the boundary . repetitive . of course . izo kill some people for about two hour and and then the film end . but the film be about a journey and seemingly through the afterlife and not a neat beginning and middle and end style of story . like other journey film ( lotr and for example ) it be episodic izo go somewhere and do something and then go somewhere else and do something else . i for one and find this much less tedious than lotr be two hour really that long when compare with peter jackson slow mo fantasy epic . and be we really so condition by hollywood 90 minute limit that an extra half an hour be that much of a struggle . there be certainly a huge gap between the trailer and the actual film . the trailer make izo seem to be an out and out action film to get the heart pounding and and yet it be so much more than this and a it get the head pound with unusual and inventive and symbolic visuals and philosophical discussion . and a folk singer ( one user hint that the linger shot of the singer be far beyond the boundary of human tolerance . he sing a song . i like listen to song . ) . throw in some cheeky ( possible ) reference to other film an upside down ( . ) wed massacre ( kill bill ) and bullet time tomfoolery ( matrix ) and wire work that defy the law of physic ( hmm and too many to mention ) and a chase through a bamboo forest ( house of fly dagger ) and a scene that remind by of the lake scene in hero and and probably many more that i have miss . add some bizarre visuals a giant caterpillar and butterfly emerge from a dead body and izo travelling across and destroy infinity and you have get a pretty engaging film at bad and and a great film ( my opinion ) at best . one of miike best and and a film i will be watch again .