Summary: In the near future, Tokyo’s police have been privatized and are doing battle with a new breed of criminals, “Engineers”, whose wounds grow back as deadly weapons. Ridiculous amounts of gore ensue.
Tokyo Gore Police (TGP) walks a fine line and, for the most part, does a great job of sticking to it. This is not going to be a very long review as there is little plot to speak of and the rest just has to be seen to be believed. When the premise of your movie is that wounds grow back as deadly weapons you can pretty much be as over the top as you want and this is definitely the most over the top movie I have ever seen. I’m not just talking about gore here; this movie was insane in every way possible from absurd amounts of violence to weird mutilation fetishes. One guy actually selects a prostitute that has her eyes stretched out 6 inches in front of her face in glass tubes from a panel of strippers who all have crazy alterations to their bodies! This movie is messed up. It takes a special kind of person to enjoy this movie – even if you love gore and insanity this movie will take you to the edge of your comfort zone, and probably beyond it. But that is why you are watching it, right? The main problem I have with TGP is that it seems to lose its way in the last half hour or so and I found the tone changed dramatically. While the movie is ridiculous all the way through and never takes itself seriously there is one scene where it slips into slapstick and it does not really recover from that. Slapstick worked in the Evil Dead trilogy because it was slapstick all the way through. In TGP, on the other hand, it is too jarring and I don’t think it works. Overall, I had a blast watching this movie, although watching it with a few hundred people at a horror film festival probably helped. Don’t watch this movie by yourself. Not because it is frightening or anything like that, because it is not, but because half the fun is the reactions of everyone around you. Unless you have a high tolerance for this sort of thing I would advise against watching TGP – you may come out scarred. Remember: you watched it, you can’t unwatch it.
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originally posted Oct. 31, 2008
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