Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Woodyanders Sweet young high school student Ami (played with tremendous spunk by the adorable Minase Yashiro) has her life turned topsy turvy after both her brother and his friend are killed by sadistic bullies. After losing her left arm to said bullies, two garage mechanics create a machine gun appendage for Ami so she can exact a harsh revenge.Writer/director Noboru Iguchi keeps the enjoyably absurd story hurtling along at a brisk pace, brings a blithely twisted tongue-in-cheek comic book sensibility to the deliciously demented premise (the whole sequence with the lethal drill bra in particular is simply sidesplitting!), pulls out all the exciting insane stops for the action set pieces, and even manages a few moments of touching humanity amidst all the gloriously gonzo carnage. Best of all, Iguchi pours on the outrageous over-the-top graphic violence with lip-smacking unhinged glee and gusto: Geysers of blood squirt and spurt everywhere (the red stuff actually sprays all over the camera lens in a few scenes!), limbs are hacked off, heads are completely obliterated, bodies are riddled with bullets, a hapless chef is forced to eat his own fingers, one poor guy has nails pounded into his face, and torsos have massive holes blown in them. Asami brings a winning sense of raw ferocious grit to her role as the tough and determined Miki while Nobuhiro Nishihara cuts an appropriately hateful figure as vicious head bully Sho Kimura. A berserk treat.

billcr12 Another Japanese action film with a female avenger, The Machine Girl stars Minase Yashiro as Ami, a girl whose brother is killed by a gang of boys associated with the yakuza. She tries to fight back, but is beaten and has her left arm cut off. A couple of garage mechanics make a machine gun prosthetic arm which provides endless bloody entertainment, as Ami makes her villains into Swiss cheese with her weapon. This ain't Shakespeare, but it is fun.Ami and her best friend, Miki, who helps her gal pal with a chainsaw, track down the yakuza at their hideout, and this leads to a vicious battle with limbs flying everywhere. It's Kill Bill without Tarantino's wit. The girls are cute and the action frequent, so just sit back and watch the pair of Asian beauties who will surely give you a happy ending.

Dave from Ottawa Chopped off limbs, arterial spray, fist-sized holes shot through torsos and heads... The Japanese ultra-violence action genre is not for the squeamish, but jaded thrill seekers looking for a true grind house experience should find much to enjoy here. The violence is so over-the-top that it becomes cartoonish and is actually quite funny to watch, and the gore effects are often inventive and clever. The plot is a familiar vehicle for this sort of exercise - two boys die at the hands of a Yakuza brat and their surviving relatives go on a revenge kick. But nobody watches these movies for the stories or character drama, right? The insane fight scenes are everything here along with the mayhem that results, and it's a pretty entertaining 90-min. ride. Enjoy.

tedg There's something disturbing about American filmmakers going to other cultures to borrow porn tropes. "Kill Bill" just never seemed right, like a traditional Jewish grandmother making Tacos for her goyim daughter-in-law's brownie troop because she thought that's what it was all about.Today, when we watch influential French new wave films, we laugh when we see that much of what they thought movies were about was poses of actors that had become cultural tokens. We see how shallow that vocabulary is for all its power. That is why, if I want to experience pure trash for whatever reason, it needs to be genuine trash. That's what this is. It is empty and offensively trivial but at least it is pure, genuine. That gives us as viewers something to build a story upon, because it exists and is popular. Kids, panties, coy girls turned terrifying ninjas. Injury always as explosive demonstration. Parents as swirling misdirected forces. You can get something from this because it is situated in its source. Seeing a fecund Rose McGowan with a machine gun leg killing those looking up her crotch, is fundamentally different from the frail, barely pubescent sister with the machine gun arm.Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.