Enjoyed this movie form the very start. The main character wasn't dim-witted; he was just a man of action rather than words. The slow pace and minimal use of dialogue was realistic. It makes viewers slow down so that they can interpret by being sensitive to clues in what they see or hear. Viewers have to slow down to the slow pace of reality.
Every actor was under control of the director, so that the entire movie had a methodical pace and a style.
This movie requires viewers to appreciate the slowness of real life, and to have sensitivity to real communication, which is often not verbal or visual.
Also, the main character demonstrated that inner emotion builds to action, but inner emotion might not be expressed in obvious ways.
This is a much more engrossing movie than the mindless junk that has come out of Hollywood for the last a few decades.

This film opens with what may be the most boring baseball game ever experienced by humanity - and making baseball more boring than it is in real life takes truly Herculean effort. There's no soundtrack, so it's a lot of just... quiet. Twenty minutes in, and the plot had *barely* reared its head (and the main character didn't have a name either). Beat Takeshi is an interesting director, and this is one of his early, and awkward, efforts. "Boiling Point" takes longer to heat up than a gallon of water, and gets to be tepid at best. Total snoozefest with occasionally funny breaks and of course, random violence, sex that might as well be between corpses, and a main character whose primary emotion can be described as "ambulatory coma." Watch it for the scenery if you want, or take up knitting.I recommend the knitting.

...if this was hulu.jp, not hulu.com (and blocked in non-USA countries).