The Machine Girl

My short review would be Machine Girl is awesome! Unfortunately short reviews are for punks so I gotta keep going.Machine Girl stars Minase Yashiro as Ami, a pretty high schooler who's a bit of a tomboy. Ami cares for her younger brother Yu since their parents committed suicide after a supposed murder frame up leaving the kids to fend for themselves.Amis brother and his best friend Takashi are killed by an extorting bully who is also the son of a Yakuza Ninja couple who are a few rice balls short of a bento box.Of course the only way for a young girl to get justice is to seek revenge on the boys who killed her brother. Maybe that murder frame up in her families past wasn't such a frame up since Ami seems really quick to turn to homicidal tendencies. Even her brother had a list in his diary of people he wanted to kill, which leads Ami in her schoolgirl uniform to her first violent confrontation with a family of one of her brothers killers.I don't think I'm giving anything away by revealing Ami eventually loses an arm in her quest for bloody vengeance. This leads to an alliance with Takashis mechanic parents. Miki, excellently played by Japanese AV star Asami, takes her under her wing and trains Ami to fight while Sugeru, the father, constructs a machine gun arm to replace Ami's missing limb.There is one other star of this film. Arterial spray. This flick shoots as much of the red stuff as any Lone Wolf and Cub film. Doesn't matter if you lose a finger or get stabbed in the head. Blood will spurt in unbelievable amounts. Half the film seems to be filmed in a pink mist, and that's fine by me. I haven't seen exaggerated maiming like this since the classic Story Of Ricky-O. As outrageous as Ricky-O was, the violence seems even stronger when it centers around a beautiful girl with an amazing smile.I gotta tell you. Guy or gal, if you don't fall in love with the screen combo of Ami and Miki then your tastes probably run to the ultra fetishist or non human since both women are gorgeous, tough and sexy.There are so many high points to this film. The Red Junior High School Ninjas, the Super Mourners Gang comprised of parents of boys Ami has taken revenge on. A chainsaw leg and a drill bra, I'll wait for that one to sink in, A Drill BRA rounding out the mechanics of destruction. Finger sushi, face nailing, the list goes on and on!Machine Girl is a near perfect modern revenge flick. It is thoroughly entertaining and never takes itself too seriously. Of course if you don't like gore for gores sake, you may want to skip this one. I recommend putting the kids to sleep, getting some friends over and creating a drinking game based on this film and the copious amount of bloodletting. You'll be drunk before the credits roll.Machine Girl moves into my top list of films to join such classics as Shaun and Dawn of the Dead, Battle Royale and Kill Bill to name a few.

What can I say? I am a fan if Japanese Cinema Sci-Fi and Action/Adventure, but not really anime. This movie is one of the ultra-violent female based action flicks coming out of Japan classified as "Pink-Horror" or "Pink-Violence". It really put me in the mind of watching a live action Anime movie that's kind of a cross between RoboCop and Planet Terror shot by John Waters. If you like that stuff then go ahead and buy it, but in my opinion there are better movies out there in this genre. I could only give this movie 3 stars.I think the movie falls short because it takes itself so seriously, that it kills any fun to be had. Even the ultra-violent Robocop had a sense of humor, which this movie appears to lack. Here's two examples where this movie went off the tracks for me:---Half Spoiler---There are two scenes where the heroine encounters kill crazy mothers of her enemies. I feel the movie completely derailed in both of the scenes.1) The kitchen "Tempura" scene. Over the top and played completely deadly serious. Huh? It had to be comedy, especially with the end result, but it is not portrayed that way.2) In the ultimate battle at the end, the weapon the Yakuza mother uses is completely ridiculous, yet again they try to portray it with absolute seriousness.Both times I just sat there and thought "What the heck am I watching?" I didn't laugh, and I certainly wasn't scared. I guess I was just kind of confused. They just completely lost me. Could be me.---end half spoiler---A lot of this movie was shot in a grainy film noire aspect that I feel did not come over well in High Definition it looked worse trhan an upscaled DVD. So in my opinion, if you want this movie, just skip the Blu-Ray and get the DVD. There is an extra disk that came with in Blu-Ray package with a few short films on it. If you really want that, then get the Blu-Ray I guess, but I feel like I wasted the money.Personally, and I know I am going to catch hell for this, I thought the Blu-Ray of "Robo Geisha" was much more appropriate. The bright vibrant colors and clear High Def picture were well worth the extra money. It is also a movie that does not take itself too seriously, (it more than embraces the silly) so I enjoyed it a lot more. Machine Girl just left me feeling "feh".

This 2008 Japanese action shock/gore film stars Minase Yashiro as Ami, a fun loving, bright and popular orphan whose life is destroyed when her younger brother is bullied and killed by the son of a Ninja-Yakuza clan leader. In a failed attempt to get vengeance, Ami’ left arm is severed, but help comes in the form of a mechanic and his wife whoreplace it with a makeshift machine gun and the two women seek revenge.The film has plenty of spurting and gushing blood sprays, lots of hacking and slashing of bodies accompanied by plenty of dark humour and over the top acting. If you are a fan of the genre or enjoyed films such as Evil dead and Planet terror, then this is a must see movie. The villains are ultra villainous and almost everyone unleashes their inner psychopath, the exception being the younger brother who remains saintly throughout.The film has a solid story line and a decent script which raises it well above most films of its type, the only failing is that the final show-down with the son and his particularly nasty mother is accompanied by the strongest use of strobe lighting I have ever seen in a film, which could pose a problem for some viewers.I tend to like these O.T.T. style movies so have no problem giving this a ***** rating, although the splatter fest approach will not appeal to all.

DVD ReviewCorny acting, plot holes and over the top effects. And these are just some of the good points.This has the feel of a b-movie type picture, don't expect to much, switch off your brain and you'll enjoy it.Extras include a behind the scenes, and a couple of trailers.Comes with Dolby digital 5.1 and subtitles.Good for a laugh.

Towards the end the disc went a bit odd. But other than that was in good nick

A Japanese Girl fighting the Yakuza,Ninjas and various assorted bullies with a Machine Gun for an arm?Whats not to love about this?

enjoyed this film and a pro service from amazon