Review of Der Samurai

"Der Samurai" or "The Samurai" is a German movie from 2014, so two years old only, and it is a fairly short work as it runs for 75 minutes only and that already includes a fairly long sequence of credits. Writer and director is Till Kleinert and luckily this film here is not as bad as his gay-themed (fairly long) short film. But this does not mean much as that one was really a huge failure and it does not make this one here a good film. The title character is played by Pit Bukowski and he is probably known to German film buffs already know. His co-lead is Michel Diercks and the two play a samurai and the police officer who the samurai is somehow trying to recruit. But the police officer, at the same time, investigates the horrible crimes the samurai has been committing. Will he stand faithful in his profession or will he get impressed by the samurai's ideas? I know I did not get impressed by Kleinert's ideas unfortunately, even if the premise isn't all that bad. Eventually I was glad the film ran that shortly as from a dramatic and story-telling perspective, it felt fairly underwhelming for the most part. Also I just could not get used to the idea of a Caucasian samurai with long blonde hair, but that may be just me. Thumbs down from me. Not recommended.