Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

SnakesOnAnAfricanPlain Assault Girls has no real story. Also, since it is set in a computer game world, there is no real threat. Then why was I so engrossed by it all? It was simply a bizarre mix of many things that I love, served up in a very short movie. It all begins with a lumbering voice over that really doesn't fit with the film. I was worried by the pomposity of it. Next up came long takes sweeping the vast desolate landscapes. There was also a shot of a snail slowly crawling along. It was like something from a Terence Malick movie, where nature triumphs over story, only here it was in a funny Japanese OTT action movie. Soon we see a man walking and he certainly walks for a while. It was reminiscent of Omar Shariff in Lawrence of Arabia. As the film finally unfolds its basic story, we see this is all set in a computer game, where 4 characters are finding it hard to defeat the final boss. They must band together if they wish to destroy it. Quite why this story is that of a film is beyond me. Perhaps it is showing how people have become wrapped up in computer games and they are an extension of our lives and characters. But probably not. I really enjoyed its serene and quiet nature, but wish there had been more story. The effects were fantastic, and I loved each and every CGI creation. Kikuchi was once again the standout star in once again a mute role. Her screen presence is undeniably exotic and unique. Her quirky dancers, and the way she can captivate by looking at a hat. You wont get much from this movie, but it was a wonderful 70 minutes.

mmushrm This is a bad movie. Honestly this movie is a big waste of time and not in a good way. Its slow, its boring and its pointless.The starting 8minutes is someone Japanese guy narrating, in English, some pseudo psychology about humanity and war and how people escape into the virtual world for their excitement and of course killing. The guy drones on with only still images on screen.Then the movie starts and this is where I give the movie major points, the CG is very very well done. amongst the best I have seen thus far in regards to flow, texture etc. (otherwise I would've given this movie a 1).The Characters...lets just say there is no character development. You only see the characters (avatars) as they are in the virtual world. One of the characters, Lucifer (crow girl) seems to be there only to fill up space. No idea why she seemingly dances (badly) for no reason. Hard to believe that she is actually an Oscar nominated actress.The plot is they are going to kill some giant worms for points. Thats it. Like I said some of the shots are very well done, CG and live landscape shots. But pointless and slow, a lot of just walking around. I mean at least half the movie is walking around aimlessly with landscape shots and shots of a snail.For those of you old enough to remember video games (before CG really took off circa early-mid 90s) where the cut scenes were real actors (wing commander, privateer etc), this movie is like that.Waste of time. watch it for the CG and some nice landscape shots but have your remote handy to fast forward the movie.

felixdenomme That movie, from the same guy who made the also very boring "Avalon", is very similar to it: - Great special effects - Everything is gray all the time, giving you the chance to take a nap - No story - Looooooong scenes that never end, containing nothing.Just as an example, there is a scene of a guy eating for 3 minutes at some points. And not a nice artistic scene or something that make the story to advance. Just 3 minutes of a guy eating like a pig.Well, if you rented this movie, I would recommend you to go immediately to the 10 last minutes of it. That's the only interesting part. And, if the movie had been exactly those 10 minutes for the entire length of it, maybe it would have had some potential.To read another review that seems to exactly write what I wanted to say, go read the review from "Paul Haakonsen". It's exactly that !

ChristerDoo By spoilers, I mean more by way of telling what this movie is not as opposed to what happens in it. I would really not call this a movie per se but more of an experiment in existential nihilism. The entire proceedings are not really explained - you are just thrust into this VR world and see a few player avatars killing giant sand worms a la Dune (or Vexille's Jags). As said, if you watched this expecting a movie which has a start/ middle/ and end and a plot which makes sense, you will be disappointed. If you are someone who likes experimental cinema and is willing to go for the ride, however bizarre and truncated it may be, you will be less disappointed. If you are the former and appreciate anime and video games, and Japanese cinema and culture in general then you will probably find it an interesting watch, even if it is ultimately without true context or meaning in a traditional sense. Slight shades of Final Fantasy and ICO can be seen, as well as perhaps a very roundabout homage to TRON and a more obvious reference to Mortal Kombat or its ilk. So while not really a movie in the traditional sense, it is nonetheless interesting enough to watch.