Armitage III Poly-Matrix (Geneon Signature Series)

Rating:
Summary: It's Impossible to find any better Anime
Review: Sorry I'm No Good At Typing Wright Me About It My Name Is Scott Gibso

Rating:
Summary: It was the best video I've ever seen
Review: Sorry No Good At Typing Wright Me About It At [e-mail] Wright To Scott (last name Gibson)

Rating:
Summary: Armitige Rocks
Review: Armitige Rock

Rating:
Summary: Great japanese anime...
Review: I think this is a great movie, and a full movie too. A lot of anime is 40 minutes long but this is full length. It's about a far future cop on Mars named Armitage, but she is an illicit robot and all of her kind are being murdered. Also see the Armitage series and try to find this movie subtitled if you can.

Rating:
Summary: Skip This -- Get The OAV
Review: There are tons of great reviews for this movie. That's understandable if none of them have seen the original OAV series this came from. See, back in 1994-1995, a 4-part OAV series called "Armitage III" came out in Japan. "Poly-Matrix" takes that 140-minute series and hacks it down to ~90-minutes. Thus this 1997 dub-title is born. So a lot of the story gets cut and things aren't nearly as good as the original. If you've seen the original, you'll be annoyed at all of the cuts and poor edit choices.

As to the dub cast (there is no Japanese cast on a dub-title as they simply re-edit an original Japanese product for American consumption), having big stars lend their voices makes it a better dub than a lot of anime titles/series. But it doesn't make up for the complete and utter hack job the series was given to form this movie.

Bottom line: If you thought this was good, the OAV is tons better. If you haven't seen this, get the OAV instead.

Rating:
Summary: Thought provoking
Review: Armitage III - Poly Matrix is in a class all its own. Almost as if it were an anime version of Bladerunner, Ross and Armitage hunt down and destroy thirds. Similar in theme to Metropolis (2001), the characters are fixers in a world of technology gone awry. It is gritty, sassy and a bit graphic and is not for the weak of heart. Much has been said about the graphics but little is mentioned about the implications of the story of a sentient robot out to destroy her own. Unlike Ghost in the Shell, which focuses on the issue of cyborgs -- this one is steeped with robot lore. As part of the big four (Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Princess Mononoke, and the Armitage series) is a necessary element to appreciating this ever changing and very dynamic genre. Hyroyuki Ochi, although creating something short of a classic, has created a thought provoking saga.

Miguel Llora

Rating:
Summary: Buy This DVD, not the 2-Pack !
Review: This is my favorite anime movie that I've seen so far. I hear some people complain about the voices, but I love he voices. Especially Kiefer Sutherland's. The music is phenomenal, the action is great and perfectly distributed through the plot, and the plot is great if you can follow the last 10 minutes (just watch it two or three times tops and you will definitely have it). All this + Naomi Armitage is hot + Cool costumes = A perfect formula.

On a final note:
Dual Matrix [stinks], do not buy the 2-pack.