The Machine Girl
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Movie Reviews of The Machine Girl
Movie Review: Machine Girl Is Awesome
Summary: 4 Stars
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.
Movie Review: Sadistic and completely hilarious.
Summary: 4 Stars
Wow, what can I say about this terrific and absolutely ridiculous film. I'm just speechless, this film had my jaw drop to the floor so many times thinking "did I just see that". The Machine Girl is the latest gore flick that's also a tribute to old grindhouse cinema (check out the great credit sequence) and other films from the past. Director Noboru Iguchi completely understands this style of film, and the audience he's aiming for and you can tell from the way the film was shot that it also copies the styles of anime in the ridiculous poses right before a fight scene especially with the ninjas and theres even that cartoon sound effect. Ami and her brother Yu are struggling to make it on their own after their parents commit suicide after being wrongly accused of murder. Yu is continuously bullied at school by a crew of ruthless boys led by the son of a Yakuza clan and it ultimately leads to him being bullied to death and the boys make it look like suicide but Ami knows better, she goes in search of answers and she finds out that the group is led by the son of a Yakuza clan and basically gets her bloody revenge by killing, chopping and maiming some gang members only to be caught and tortured and then having her arm chopped off. She then gets her arm fitted with a prosthetic machine gun which is capable of blowing holes in people's faces and stomaches, there is also a Yakuza gang member that gets completely chopped in half by a chainsaw which I thought was rather cool, yes very nice! but some might think it was sick. This was the goriest and most over the top Japanese flick I've ever seen, it makes Kill Bill and Hostel look like Disney's Highschool musical. There is tons of blood and gore in this film so if your a gore hound then your going to love it but if your looking for a story then look elsewhere, the story worked fine by me cause it sets up all these gory and brutal death scenes and carnage. This has quite a few great fight scenes as well and I'm sure it will appeal to those of you who like gory horror/comedies and martial arts flicks like Dead Alive, Toxic Avenger, Ichi The Killer, Riki-oh etc. cause I noticed that a few scenes were also inspired by those films, infact it mixes alot of other elements from other films so its not exactly original and the acting was horrible but I think they've done that on purpose cause its so over the top especially with Ami's best friend who's high pitched and whiny voice sounds like she came straight from an anime cartoon, but I still thought it was great and it was also a hilarious and fast paced gore flick that was alot of fun. This is what you will expect from the film! gallons of blood spraying from everywhere, severed limbs, exploding heads, guys cut into pieces, a mechanical drill bra and theres more but I'm not going to ruin the surprise so just watch it. Yes there are some cliches but I don't think you'll find a gorier film than The Machine Girl this year, I highly recommend this enjoy.Movie Review: Forget Your Stupid Superheros, THIS Movie Should Be Playing On 3000 Screens!
Summary: 4 Stars
After her brother is murdered by a ninja-yakuza clan, a teenage girl seeks vengeance with her gatling gun. First and foremost, this movie has enough blood spray to fill Lake Erie. The death scenes are numerous, highly inventive, and extremely entertaining. The pacing is just about perfect, with the action scenes positioned within the running time in such a way that avoids any dullness. One surprising positive is the camera-work, which shows blood sprays for incredibly long periods of time. This is definitely a movie that soaks itself in excess. The story itself plays out rather seriously, but the black humor is laid on thick during the fights, so some laugh-out-loud moments are almost guaranteed along the way. This is a very satisfying action gore-fest because of its impressively long finale.
I've already heard some artsy snobs complaining about this movie in terms of character development. I'm just wondering why these tards even decided to watch this movie to begin with. They should have known exactly what they were going to get. You don't see the name Tsai Ming-liang on the DVD case, do you?
This really was my summer blockbuster popcorn flick of 2008. Everyone else can have their little CGI prairie dogs, animated monkeys, and space aliens. You can have your superheros, sequels, and remakes (can Hollywood think of anything new?). The fact remains that THIS movie should be playing on 3,000 screens! That will never happen in the USA though with it's dumb-as-dirt moviegoers who flock like sheep to see the most derivative tripe dished out by those Californian bloodsuckers. Do you people have ANY standards whatsoever?
On a positive note, that's 2-for-2 this year in terms of my most highly anticipated films. "Chocolate" (a Thai action flick) and "The Machine Girl" were both insanely entertaining. I have full confidence that "Tokyo Gore Police" will be something really, really special. And maybe "High School Girl Rika: Zombie Hunter", "Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge", and "Onechanbara" can round out a great 2008 for Japanese Horror.
You don't get great stuff like this out of the States. Man, is there any reason to watch American movies anymore?
Movie Review: Welcome to the modern Asian grindhouse!
Summary: 4 Stars
If arterial spray was a sexual fetish, "The Machine Girl" would be hardcore porn. If cinematic cheese were real cheese, it could open it's own pizza parlor. If an ultraviolent anime came to life, it would be this film. I haven't seen a display like this since Riki-Oh. And at least that one had the restraint to refrain from drill-bra versus chainsaw duels and Power Ranger-esque ninja death squads. But make no mistake, this is one of the most hysterically good times a gorehound can have with a single DVD.
Blood covers the screen, the heroines, the villains, the floor, and everything else in this film, sometimes to the point where it's all you can see. Fingers are made into sushi, an arm is battered and deep-fried, a woman discovers her son's head in her soup and then vomits as she is stabbed through the mouth from behind, her blood mixing with the extra-chunky puke to pour enticingly onto her son's disembodied head in the bowl in front of her (OWNED!), and that's before the giant machine-gun arm comes in! Have I given everything away? Not by a long shot. By this time you're either in or out, but I'll give you one more teaser. The Flying Guillotine: corniest martial-arts weapon EVER! Love it.
Get ready to laugh yourself sick...or maybe just get sick. Either way, this is one of the giddiest, most profanely violent, and cheesiest grindhouse films I've ever seen. It even comes complete with a score that could have come straight out of a 70's exploitation flick. Consider my faith in Japanese cinema officially restored. This is what I want to see when I pick up a movie with a DVD cover like this one's: a Japanese schoolgirl with a ridiculous machine gun arm blow a hole in a guy and then stick the gun through the hole she just shot in the guy to shoot a hole in another guy's face. Is that too much to ask? Director Iguchi Noboru says "HELL NO!". And God bless him for that.
4 1/2 stars rounded down for some poor special effects.
Movie Review: Most ridiculous, violent and bloody movie... but that's why you're here.
Summary: 4 Stars
So anybody viewing this product already knows what they should expect. I mean, look at the DVD art... you're not going to get oscar-winning cinema here, but what you will get is some of the more violent, gory, gruesome and action-filled movies i have ever seen. We all know about Ichi the Killer (Unrated Edition) and Riki-Oh - The Story of Ricky and i think this could be lumped into the same category. Totally over the top action and violence to see how far the creators can go. So down to MACHINE GIRL specifically. Acting and overall plot were pretty good considering... A young girl's brother and his friend are killed by a gang of high-school aged yakuza and she seeks revenge, only to get her arm chopped off in the process. She finds herself at the parent's house of the other kid who was killed and they nurse her back to health. They also make her a gigantic machine gun arm just in time to have ninjas show up to make use of it. The father is killed and "Machine Girl" and the mother of the other dead boy basically go out to seek revenge on the rest of the family. EXTREME violence ensues throughout - holes blown in people's head, chests; decapitations; drill-bras; limbs chopped off; bodies cut into pieces, Kill Bill, Volume 1 style blood-sprays - the works. I was surprised to see that the special effects were for the most part top notch in the old-school manner. Most were all practical effects and all worked - even if they were a lil cheesy, i think it worked for the movie considering it was all that way. This will be a great movie to add to a gore-hound's collection, or those who are fond of grindhouse-revival cinema. I'm proud to add it to my collection (of over 850 titles) and can't wait to show it off to my friends who could stomach it... lol