Eye Candy #528 - "Rain Fall"

Rain Fall:  An extremely tepid thriller based on the book of the same name by Barry Eisler, “Rain Fall” also features almost 80% Japanese dialogue.  John Rain is a former spook for the CIA whose loyalties are called into question.  He is tasked with retrieving a flash drive with sensitive information on it that interests the Japanese government and criminal elements, as well as the United States (embodied by a CIA station chief played by Gary Oldman, who seems to spend all his time yelling at Japanese people).  We also get a Japanese cop looking into the case from the opposite end.  The plot is confusing and underdeveloped, and the “reveal” borders on the insulting (mostly because it references things that never happened on screen, while trying to get you to go “ah-Ha!” as if you watched it all).  The lead, Kippei Shiina, plays John Rain in a fairly wooden fashion.  Unremarkable in almost every way, though for some reason I liked the soundtrack.  Woodchuck sez, “Skip it.”