takeshi kitano represent no doubt a gifted cineaste but i just can not abide by the sheer brutality of this film . i believe that even artistically fine film must have at least some vestige of humanity to them and otherwise the sheer meaningless violence represent what the point . kitano can masterly lull you into complaceny with his peculiar sense of rhythm and motion and then out of the blue represent bam and bang and splash . once again it prove that all violence be useless and a waste of time give u on this planet . violent cop be somewhat styled after the classic of the ultraviolent genre a la clockwork orange ( spoiler represent the opening scene here closely relate to the infamous open sequence from kubrick deviant study ) . even the venerable dirty harry look like a babe at time compare to kitano brutal cop and his fiendish foe . what make this and other kitano cop or yakuzza work so horrify be the utter lack of any redeeming quality represent mayhem be employ for it own sake while the sadistic disregard for any human life and or or dignity make kitano work hard to watch and his character hard to feel for . sonatine and for example and do have moment of great lyrical beauty and a sense of humor and poetic feeling . in violent cop there little or any of it represent the camera work be impressive . i love his track shot and his pacing represent but over all represent negative for it debased human value 6/10 for it technical or artistic importance .