terrible... so disappointed.

Boring

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

This is a completely mindless splatter and gore-film for people who consider fountains of fake-blood, flying body parts and looking at Japanese girls' panties a time well spent. Or in other words: one has to be very drunk, mentally challenged or sexually retarded to be able to enjoy this junk. I can imagine that an all-boy frat-house-party might be the right screening place.It's like watching gangbang-porn, with the difference that all penetration is substituted with stabbing, chopping, slicing. Instead of sperm you'll see ejaculations of fake blood and instead of sex-organs you'll see intestines and brain-matter. Same as in porn the act of f*cking / killing itself in all its weird variations is considered to be completely sufficient for a movie plot, but the constant flow of blood and violence is numbing and debilitating and it's honestly extremely boring.You will see random acts of cheap violence over and over again, nothing changes: chop chop chop, head body arm, left right across. So if you're the kind of guy who's hysterically laughing again and again about the extremely cheap and mindless cinematic execution of the same kind of dumb violent joke repeated over and over for 90 minutes then this might be the right film for you. For anyone else it's boring after 5 minutes.Conclusion: avoid by all means.PS: If you're interested in violent Japanese cinema then watch "Itchy The Killer" instead; if you're into weird Japanese cinema then watch any "Pink Eiga" movie from the late 70ies / 80ies. I'm not sure if these films are available outside of Japan though (I'm living in Japan).

This does, as they say, what it says on the can. Blood spurts, or should I say, fountains, everywhere throughout this outrageous movie and the young girls manage to look ravishing all the time, despite the horrendous goings on. And pretty grim much of it is with severed limbs and other gut wrenching violence. All this, however, is done in such an, over the top manner, that only once or twice do we wince and indeed after a while there is a sense of monotony creeping into the proceedings. Only an hour and a half long this could nevertheless have done with a little tightening. Or maybe I'm being unfair, remembering that inscription on the can, we get plenty of flashes of white panties and bare thighs as our heroine flies hither and thither delivering death and destruction and the aforementioned blood does keep on flowing. I liked the connections drawn between the shrines and the yakuza gangs but felt I could have been a little more drawn into the goings on.

This is so over the top full of gore that even if you aren't into Asian flicks you will love it. Everything gorehounds love is available in this entertaining flick. The red stuff is sputtering all over bodies, even on the camera lens. There are decapitations, ninja fighting, bodies been cut in two, beheading, bodies being burned an of course you just can't take it seriously. If someone would encounter the things that are happening with the main lead you just won't survive it. But if you watch the opening credits than it's clear that they wanted to make some kind of exploitation. The surely succeeded in it. There are naturally some use of CGI and some cheap effects or stupid mistakes for example when one of the girls is being killed you still can see her heart beating in her neck. Nevertheless, big fun. And I was lucky to have met Asami, one of the coming stars in the genre, she was so friendly, I even had signed this DVD and had a picture together with her.

Machine Girl (Kataude mashin gâru): 7 out of 10: People in Japan must have very high blood pressure. They don’t bleed in Machine Girl, as much as they outright gush gallons of the red stuff. The effect is so over the top it adds a sense of outrageous humor to what could have been a fairly grim affair. After all the story concerns a college girl who gets a prosthetic weapon attached to her elbow after a member of the Yakuza amputates her lower arm to disused her from investigating the suiciding of her younger brother.This quick synopsis actually understates the depravity our heroine undergoes before she gets all Death Wish on anyone with a shiny business suit.Our Rick Allenesqe heroine is played by the delightful and delicious Japanese model/actress Minase Yashiro. In fact one of the movies strong points is a quite attractive cast wearing schoolgirl outfits and cameo like some cosplayers wet dream. Mono-named Asami and Honoka join Yashiro to round out the attractive female cast.Machine Girl however never really hooks the viewer emotionally. It is all so over the top and cartoonish. Exploitation films often benefit from allowing the audience to get emotionally involved with the characters (Think Mad Max or Savage Streets). I don’t blame the actresses in this case; I simply think the script could have taken a breather from the silliness to add some much needed poignancy.The entire film plays like an overlong Monty Python skit. It has great set pieces, decent special effects and enough fetish material to keep a Chaku-ero fan in his basement for a week. It simply doesn’t tell a compelling story, nor does it allow one to become attached to any of the characters involved.That said however, I simply cannot dislike a film that features a bra made out of industrial drills. So turn you mind off, send the misses out shopping and enjoy.