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Armitage III: Polymatrix

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Armitage III has always been a title I wanted to check out, but with so many other multivideo collections I was trying to complete, I didn't want to trouble myself with another one. So when I heard about the movie version I was pretty sure I was going to buy it and when I found out it featured the voices of Keifer Sutherland and Elizabeth Berkley that kind of sealed the deal. Its great to see celebs trying to help bring this style of art to the main stream. This is the second anime feature length film I've ever bought, but I knew not to expect another Akira, but this was pretty enjoyable despite it may seem at some points to be over done. Of course if you don't buy much anime and you just want to see this to see another Elizabeth character act like a slut (Show Girls, First Wives Club, Saved By the Bell type characters) you will be disappointed. This is not one of the reasons I bought the tape, but you some time wonder when this Cop in hot pants is going to get naked.

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Ross Sylibus has left the Chicago PD for the Martian PD after his partner was killed by a cyborg. He immediatly gets involved in some normal movie cop action with a shoot out at the space port where his new partner Naomi Armitage is trying to apprehend one of the arrivies. During the shoot out the criminals suitcase opens and we find the dead body of the universe's only remaining country singer ^_^Yay^_^ Kelly McCannonen. After the suspect escapes, Armitage and Ross find out that the victim is a robot. Just as Ross is settling in, the murderer, Rene D'amclaude shows a film of other female robots he's killed that he calls Thirds. With antirobot feelings on Mars, this man gets a lot of support, but somebody in the PD that is really concerned is Armitage?

D'anclaude eventually challenges Ross to a duel where we find out Ross has a robotic leg. D'anclaude is about to defeat the hero when Armitage comes into capture him. Only to add to the confusion of the crimes, we find out that she is a Third. The murders are occuring even after D'anclaude's capture and Armitage seem to have gone into hiding, and the only human that can make any sense of this is Ross.

 

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The biggest flaw in the film is that it tries to cover to much in to little time. This is the same plot as the series, so the action has to be hurried. Little room for emotions of the characters is the result. Some of the voice acting is pathetic, and Sutherland seems to try to hard, but Berkley does a great despite it being overly whining job of Armitage. Voice, body what else does she need? A decent agent. The artwork and animation is great. Some how just looking at shots or posters doesn't work, but these drawing are beautiful in action. The plot does seem to add to many variables such as the thirds can be impregnated which makes it confusing or atleast over stimulating. Despite all this, its extremely enjoyable and it makes me think you should save your money and just buy this instead of each episode of the series. Its not addicting, its not excellent, I guess this is the caffeine of animes because you still enjoy it.

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Copyright AIC - Pioneer LDC, Inc. - Pioneer Entertainment (USA) L.P.

Review on this page © 1998 Russ Stevens

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