'Returner' is not a bad film. The science fiction and action movies fans will find it entertaining. There is nothing too original either in this film, if we are to except the idea of taking ideas, effects, and full cinema quotes from many other American films, and combining them in a Japanese teryaki mix. However, with the American cinema having taken that many Japanese film ideas, characters, and stories and mixing them on the Hollywood McDonalds plates, who can put a blame on this? Internationalization of the cinema works many ways, and the cinema highway is not one-way either. What we are left with is a film that works well for much of its length, so sit back, relax, enjoy. The two main actors are pretty good, and I expect seeing them in other similar Japanese films in the future. 7 out of 10 on my personal scale.
