I really tend to enjoy a good Japanese samurai-splatter flick every now and then and "The Machine Girl" is definitely some of the finest of it's kind. Personally, I liked "Tokyo Gore Police" a little more for it's twisted effects and pure off-the-wall attitude, but I did like the absolute silliness of this one and it's outrageous cartoon violence. It's a pretty straight-forward "revenge" movie about an average high school girl (who just so happens to fight like three steroid enhanced Bruce Lee's put together) out to avenge her brother's killers - a gang of young thugs led by a prominent ninja's son. She ends up losing her arm in a gruesome torture session, later replaces it with a custom machine gun prosthetic and sets out on her quest for bloody vengeance...
The effects range from practical old-school looking stuff and some CGI - all of which is decent enough and the action sequences, themselves, are well choreographed and exciting. I've never really been too into the whole blood-"mist" eruptions typically used in a lot of movies of this type, but for some strange reason, when it's used so frequently, it becomes MUCH more entertaining. I'm not sure why. There's also some noticeable tributes to classic gore flicks like "Evil Dead", "Bad Taste" and the kung-fu classic "Master of the Flying Guillotine". "The Machine Girl" is worthy viewing for fans of over-the-top Jap-action and gore hounds alike...
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