Xan Brooks 

Takeshis’

This self-referential comedy from "Beat" Takeshi Kitano is a tiresome, self-indulgent mess, writes Xan Brooks
  
  

Scene from Takeshis' (2005)
Ever decreasing circles ... Takeshis' Photograph: PR

If you've ever wondered what Beat Takeshi is really like, and how he relates to his screen persona, and how his life might have been had he taken a different fork in the road, then congratulations: you may be as fascinated by Beat Takeshi as Beat Takeshi is himself. ­Takeshis' (apparently the first instalment in a trilogy) is a flat, Fellini-esque wheeze in which our hero takes on dual roles as millionaire film-maker Beat Takeshi and a low-rent grovelling entertainer who looks just like Beat Takeshi. The script swims in tired circles, like a goldfish in a bowl, with nothing to look at but its own reflection in the glass.

 

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