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Genre: Action, Gore, Horror
Synopsis: A Japanese schoolgirl, Ami, continues to move forward as she supports her younger brother, Yu. Despite the death of their parents, this young tomboy seems to be content with her life. After another death in the family, Ami seeks revenge and fights through everything to get it.
Review: The story of Job tells us a story about a man who loses everything in his life and still has faith in God. Now, if Job was a Japanese schoolgirl who turns to Death and kills everyone responsible for the deaths of her family then that’s pretty much the story of Ami. To give you a more accurate picture, Robert Rodriguez gave us Planet Terror while Noboro Iguchi gave us The Machine Girl sharing a lot of similarities. If you’ve watched Planet Terror, I’m sure you didn’t care about the acting, the realism, or the storyline as long as the action kept rising to higher and ridiculous levels. That is what The Machine Girl brings to the table but with Japanese culture brought into the mix. This movie has the look of a film student creating a low budget movie but has a unique heart of something I’m going to call fantastic fakeness. By no means is this movie a realistic gorefest like Hostel. The props used in this movie look like they’ve been stolen from an old Mighty Morphin Power Rangers storage facility and added tremendous amount of fake blood and guts. The acting is horrible!!! During some long ass scenes this movie has moments resembling a horrible train wreck you can’t look away from. All of it adds to the fantastic fakeness only the Japanese can provide (eg. – Wipeout and I Survived a Japanese Gameshow). This is a movie you either get or you don’t. If you enjoy getting your asian cinema fix once in a while then you might like this movie. If not, then stay away. I like some Asian movies but this was a mixed bag for me. This is a movie I could have fallen asleep to but I enjoyed the absurdity of it.
RomTalk Movie Rating – 6/10
Links -IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes
