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Summary: Excellent
Review: Great sound to go along with the action. Important to me. If you like this type of animation you will enjoy it. Good character development allowing you to empathize with the main characters.
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Summary: not worth the dough
Review: In this anime, people just have a problem getting along with the semi-humans (called thirds) they create. Armitage, a third herself, is a bounty hunter after a psycho bent on murdering the thirds. So begins the struggle against human and third, and of course, there's the classic and generic "I wonder what it's like to be human...." internal struggle. The story starts off promisingly, but it eventually lags to the point where I was left uninterested as to what would happen next. It tends to jump around a bit, though this movie supposedly smoothens out the gaps from the OAV series. The dubbing is above average though, as it seems there were some high-profile talents hired for the voice-overs. It's surprisingly lacking in action and doesn't have much of a soundtrack to intensify anything. I'd recommend seeing it if you're a fan of cyborg-ish anime, a la Ghost in the Shell, but otherwise, I wouldn't recommend buying it.
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Summary: Relies on suped up action scenes, nothing else
Review: On Mars, in the year 2179, humanoid robots called Seconds populate the planet and start to run amok. They are hunted by tough chick Naomi Armitage and her partner Ross Sylibus. Fast paced Blade Runner clone starts off well, grabbing you with its hyperkinetic scenes of action, but soon it becomes apparent that the movie has no story - and no point. This barely saw theatrical release in the US (though it is certainly more than some Manga movies get). Hollywood actors Kiefer Sutherland and Elizabeth Berkley provide the commendable voices of the two leads, which gives this movie its only pizzazz.
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Summary: Cyberpunk anime lives on!
Review: Thought Ghost in the Shell was the only really good cyberpunk anime out there? Your wrong. Armitage 3 is a combination of a four episode OVA in spliced into a 120 minute movie. The setup is like that of Kite, but the plot is on par with Blade Runner. Armitage is your teenage cop who wear skimpy outfits and is a pretty bad girl. The story begins on Mars. After Ross arrives at the airport, Armitage shows up to arrest a mad man. After taking out his men, Armitage shoots him and his briefcase opens to reveal a dead body of a famous singer. After Armitage tries to take out the mad man, Armitage and Ross discover that she was a Third. Third's are the third line of androids produced by a speical man. There are also Seconds. Seconds are mad men who wish to kill the thirds. Through this movie, Armitage helps kill the Seconds and also meet a few thirds. Some nice scenes are when Ross and Armitage duke it out with a Second in a sewer, the raid of the hospital and the final epic battle where Ross and Armitage duke it out with an entire army with ARmitage packing some wings. Armitage soon meets her father and even meets the new models called Fourths. The movie seems to boast well from the dubbing by famous voice actors of Elizabeth Berkley and Keifer Sutherland. The dub voices aren't extremely good, but they work. Overall, a fairly nice cyberpunk movie with the makings of Blade Runner.
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Summary: The best movie ever
Review: I thought ArmitageIII was awsome. The setting takes place on Mars where a guy named Ross goes to work there as a cop. His partner turns out to be Naomi Armitage whose a Third.Thirds are robots that are made to be like humans in everysingle way even in giving birth. Amirtage tries to protect the Thirds cause people are trying to destroy them. Ross soon finds out Armitage is a third and tries to help her out to. The movie is a got to see.
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Summary: Dated animation, but great story
Review: I can by no means consider myself a pro at rating animes, as Ihaven't seen many. ...the story on the back (which was small font and kinda hard to read) sounded good. The animation itself is rather choppy, not as smooth as many of the other animes out there. Even most Saturday morning cartoons have thinner lines and just all around better animation. The voice acting was okay, not the greatest but not horrible either; I wish the lead male had had more animation (no pun intended) to his voice, but it wasn't that bad. If you can get past that, though, there's a great storyline here. I watched it a second time, once I got used to the animation, and still really liked the story itself after that. It's about a cop named Armitage and her new partner Ross. Someone named Rene is going around killing "Thirds" and broadcasting over the airways that these 'people' aren't real humans but robots masquerading as human. This of course causes an uproar, and we come to learn that Armitage is a Third herself. After that, the storyline revolves around finding out just what a Third is, why they were created, who created them, and why someone is trying to wipe them off the surface of Mars. Great storyline, okay voice acting, nice animation. It's not the snazziest thing on the market, but I'm glad I bought it. :)
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Summary: All the good stuff
Review: Its got all the good stuff a movie needs, violence, nudity and a great story line. 'nuff said.
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Summary: Good enough to buy
Review: If you love japanimation you won't be disappointed with DVD. Final Criticism: Story line - good/ Animation- good/ Overall- Good
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Summary: Mercury
Review: This anime starts off with somewhat confusing, but informative seens, and flows thru the rest of the movie. If you are looking for a cool scifi/tech/semi-punk anime, this is just your style. Watching it for the second time is just as good if not better than the first time. I highly recommend this anime
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Summary: Great anime, but too much was cut from the OAVs
Review: I had rented the first volume of the original Armitage III series several years ago, and fell in love with this series. I purchased "Polymatrix" this summer, and was a little dissappointed by how much was cut from the original series. Since then I have purchased the original 4-volume series (30 minutes each, except for volume 1, which is 50 minutes). After watching the original four volumes, I can say without hesitation that they are far superior to the condensed and redubbed motion picture version. If you watched this movie and found the story and plot a little confusing, get the original volumes instead; you will enjoy this great series much more if you do!
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