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| The Machine Girl Year of Release: 2008 Director: Noboru Iguchi |
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What it’s about: A school girl, Ami seeks revenge on those who bullied and killed her little brother. Along the way she gets her arm hacked off, so she gets it replaced with a machine gun. The Verdict: This funny and craptastically great sounding premise seems to borrow the similar concept of a gun for a leg from 2007’s Planet Terror. I have to say the film is quite a bit of fun, but does lose a lot of steam in its second half. As if having a machine gun for an arm isn’t enough reason to make you want to watch this already, every time someone has a body part cut or shot off the blood spurts out in every direction like some sort of high pressure sprinkler! The effects never try to look real as dismembered body parts (such as heads) don’t even look slightly real, but are shown on screen for a very long time. I just want to point something out about the first scene of this film – it’s a flash forward to her killing a bunch of people once she has already lost her arm and has the gun...but...when she jumps in the air the first time to attack you will notice both her arms very clearly visible, yet a few shots later she has no arm. Just a wee blatant mistake I thought I would share with you all. The script is so obvious it can be quite funny. The audience at no point has to wonder about someone’s past or what their thinking as they just come out and deliberately say it. Despite all these awesome B-movie traits on offer, the film begins to get quite tiresome in the second half when all the action, dismemberments and deaths all become repetitive. This is quite a shame as it had such potential!  (3 and a 1/2 Craptastic Stars)Golden Craptastic moment: The scenes that take place in Ryota’s house are the best – we are treated to such great moments as: An arm being deep fried, a person spraying blood from a dead body over a guy in a bath, and a head popping up in a food dish. |
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