The Machine Girl

Terrible acting, awful script, stupid editing, bad continuity. Not much of their own. Extra points for the leading lady.

The plot, dialog and acting is all so bad, overdone and ridiculously dramatic that it almost hurts to watch it at times. But it doesn't matter, as it's got loads of the most fully awesome actions scenes I've ever seen. You learn not to be bothered by the plot within the first 5 minutes. Some of the special effects are pleasing, others are ridiculously bad, but it really doesn't matter. WASH YOUR HAIR IN YOUR SONS BLOOD!

Not even funny. It's obvious the people behind this basically made every scene with the exact same thought: "Look at this movie, it's really cheap and badly done, don't you like it?" Don't know why people put this crap on the same level of other so-bad-they're-good classics.

The fun campy moments are so scarce that we had to fast forward between them since the rest of the movie is literally unwatchable

lol

A scathing criticism of the tacit approval that the power brokers in Japan have for Yakuza activity and the destructive nature such practices have on the working class. Then a lady cuts a dude with a chainsaw on her leg. I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about.

I feel ridiculous having to apologize for this score, but clarifications are in order: I love extreme cinema, and I don't mind some humorous trash and tasteful tastelessness once in a while. But The Machine Girl is the wrong kind of sadistic and vile, the wrong kind of ridiculously cheesy. It's just lousy actors spouting lousy text as they lazily hack each other up with lousy gore effects. If this kind of thing thrills or amuses you, you need to get out more.

what this one lacks in the most rudimentary skills of storytelling is made up for in seven foot long rubber arms with buckets of red, watery blood spraying out them like a firehose.

If you're watching this, you know what type of film to expect. Yes the acting is no good, the story is weak, the effects are laughable, but the whole movie experience makes up for all of that. The first five minutes was great, the rest of the film drops off after that, but it was still entertaining. How can you go wrong with the bloodsplattering of Kill Bill with the gun toting badass female of Planet Terror?

Outstanding ! Japanese answer on Planet Terror & Co. Got pretty much fun with this Movie. 3 Friends, a six pack of Beer and some funny splatter Action !! What an evening. ;)

i think you have to give the director credit for his courage to make the movie so bad. because i think it would be less entertaining if the effects, story, acting and action scenes would are better... and i wonder how he persuaded the producer to spend half (or even more) of the budget for the artificial blood... you have to admit, that at least this requires some skills...

Gets points for being so bad its funny.

The most important film made in the last thirty years.

Hot chicks, ninjas, awful acting, machine guns, yakuza, drill bra, buckets of blood. The ultimate cheese gorefest and the new king of arterial spray.

Frigging awesome action scenes but way too much boring shit between them.

One of my best I was expecting a shity movie. If you like splatter black humor you will at least find it entertaining and funny sometimes

I sought this out mostly because the FX wizard behind it is the guy who later directed Tokyo Gore Police. While TGP is absolutely batshit for the entirety of it's runtime, Machine Girl is mostly a straightforward comic bookish story which happens to have fantastic gore FX. The action is lots of fun, but most everything else feels like filler. Thankfully, once it gets going, it stays going.

Ridiculous and over-the top in every single aspect. A mix of insanely enjoyable while also being overwhelming, and painfully bad. This movie is like an ice cream sundae induced brain freeze.

Direct-to-video garbage. The costumes must have been provided by the local high school drama club and it's a miracle this got funding without assistance from Kickstarter. The narrative quality is on par with the worst Power Ranger episodes and it only gets more and more terrible as it goes along. If you want modern Japanese shlock, TOKYO GORE POLICE and HELLDRIVER, while undeniably stupid films in their own right, are much more entertaining.

The acting is weak, the story's virtually non-existent and the action is extremely dull. As a campy gore-fest, it should at least have a degree of humour or self-awareness, yet this fails in every department to be entertaining or memorable.

The deaths are all so extremely funny. The bad thing about these films though is that the pacing is sometimes slow, but damn if I didn't have fun

It's about a Japanese schoolgirl with a Gatling gun for an arm taking down a whole family of yakuzas. That's really all you need to know.

"The Machine Girl" was really the film that popularized the modern J-spolitation genre but after watching "Tokyo Gore Police" or "Robogeisha" it just doesn't have the same entertainment factor as it used to and cannot compare. Still entertaining as hell though.

bad but it was worth watching...

After the horrifically bad Tokyo Gore Police, the worst thing I could watch with a head cold would be anything by members of the Fundoshi Corps (Yukihiko Yamaguchi, Gore Police's director Yoshihiro Nishimura and Noboru Iguchi himself). Thankfully it is not that painfully bad, but frankly this is just a cheaply made, uninteresting gore film without any real inventiveness and skill a director like Takashi Miike has.

Fairly painful acting and plot but damned if it doesn't have fun.

Over the top ridiculous! My score might be slightly skewed (towards the positive) by watching the horribly inept american dub, but this was a tremendously fun riot from start to end for me.

What a fun time..if you seen Toyko Gore Police, Meatball Machine and Samurai Princess..this to me is the best of the series. Its so goofy and over the top that no matter what you are at least going to pay attention just to see what is next...

A full 9.9 (or 99) stars. VERY RARE from me

Perfectly adequate campy fun.

this movie is crazy! lots of blood everywhere.

Really a terrible film but I love to see a film focus primarily on the gore, the intense scenes of sickening violence that I so longingly wish to create.

So bad it feels good. Like a drill bra.

eng; (musik in ordnung, rest lächerlich)

good movie

awesome movie with some outstanding moments you wont forget!!

Horrible Film, but great guilty pleasure

Entertaining but really, really bad.

Clearly a so bad its good movie. The gore is cheesy, fake, ridiculous, plentiful, hilarious, gross, satisfying, and probably some other adjectives. Honestly, just youtube up the first 5 minutes, that's about the best review that can be provided for this movie.

I can't believe I am going to write this, but I liked the photography in this film, and I thought some of the action sequences were pretty good. Even the silly Power Range-esque baddies in jumpsuits was fine by me. To be fair, I watched this after 45 hours of being awake... but I was entertained. And I honestly did like the photography! It's framed quite nicely :\.

disappointing and boring

Cool action scenes with tons of gore. Would have been a lot better if the movie wouldn't have focused too much in it's crappy plot.