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SummaryThe year is 2084 and the human race is fighting an alien militia to save the last remnant of civilization. A young heroine name Milly (Suzuki) escapes the war and jumps back in time to present-day Japan in an attempt to change history and prevent the demise of her people. (Destination Films)

Returner

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Generally Unfavorable
36
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Generally Favorable
6.6
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
36
6% Positive
1 Review
53% Mixed
9 Reviews
41% Negative
7 Reviews
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67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A B-movie goof on an A-minus budget, Returner is a mini-epic tweaked with computer effects and one blazing gun battle after another and set to an anonymous techno-beat.
50
New York Daily News
Overwrought and overlong, Returner might been a rousing B-movie -- had it not been hamstrung by Yamazaki's bigger pretensions.
50
Christian Science Monitor
Hovering between "Last Action Hero" and "E.T.," this sci-fi extravaganza is bookended with violence but has some gentle moments in between.
40
TV Guide Magazine
Mines familiar territory and does nothing especially new with it. On the plus side, Kishitani is a spectacular villain.
33
Entertainment Weekly
With his tousled mane and wispy facial hair, Asian pop star/ Prada model Kaneshiro suggests a Japanese Johnny Depp, but even his charisma can't carry Returner through its interminable longueurs. Blame it on Yamazaki.
30
Chicago Reader
Suzuki and Kaneshiro keep the first hour afloat with their easy comic interplay, but Yamazaki badly needs editing: the opening escape sequence is needlessly repeated later, and a slow drip of false endings drags this out to a tiring 118 minutes.
25
New York Post
Soporific, shamelessly derivative and barely coherent by American standards.
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User score
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6.6
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Apr 17, 2018
5
Broyax
Avant que le célèbre beau gosse n'entame une nouvelle carrière dans de grosses productions chinoises, Kaneshiro véritable "dieu vivant au Japon" roulait des mécaniques dans ce film SF japonais qui ne lésinait pas sur les effets spéciaux ! De bon aloi les effets en effet, très inspirés de Matrix dans cette redite de E.T. (téléphone maison) avec voyage dans le temps inclus et un peu de Transformers... La petite Suzuki (vroum-vroum) utilise le grand benêt pour sauver le monde des griffes d'un malentendu extra-terrestre géno-humanocidaire (oui, on a un peu d'Independence Day aussi là-dedans). Le scénario tient plus ou moins la route avec ce méchant yakuza qui a une véritable armée à disposition, ennemi héréditaire ou presque du beau gosse qui rend la justice pour le compte de sa grand-mère trafiquante d'armes à son insu. Oui, on a décidément tout et n'importe quoi dans ce Returner qui mélange tout ça avec grande naïveté et flegmatisme. Distrayant, neuneu et idiot à la fois, on a là une sorte de caricature involontaire du triple A hollywoodien de base mais sans les jokes amerloques ; ça ne casse pas trois pattes à un canard mais ça passe assez bien le temps surtout au second degré... pourvu qu'on soit un minimum indulgent !
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  • Fuji Television Network (Fuji TV)
  • Imagica Corp.
  • Robot Communications
  • Shirogumi
  • Toho
  • Pony Canyon
  • Returner Film Partners
Oct 17, 2003
1 h 56 m
R
Who cares about the future?
Awards of the Japanese Academy
• 2 Wins & 5 Nominations
Asian Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Nomination
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