LEY LINES is the third and final part of an unconnected gangster trilogy by Takashi Miike, following on from SHINJUKU TRIAD SOCIETY and RAINY DOG. Once again the focus is on a youthful group of Chinese Triads, this time living in Japan and struggling to make ends meet. The film begins on a light and comic tone as the men mess around and have fun, but then they get involved with a criminal element and things turn deadly. I found this film to be pretty slow and unfocused, if I'm honest, lacking in the kind of basic characterisation that would make the lives of the characters we're watching interesting. Miike can't resist throwing in some perverse and explicit sexual elements but they add nothing to the overall quality of what is a largely lacklustre film.