Another barf bag epic from the Japanese. In the first ten minutes we get an exploding head and a chainsaw through the mouth, but that’s nothing. There are still a hundred or so more stomach-slicing, eye-gouging, penis-ripping, face-butchering, blood-spraying minutes to go. I think every human appendage gets torn off here except for tongues (maybe that’s in the “deleted scenes” section on the DVD). And if that doesn’t do it for you, there’s always the part where a guy eats a handful of live, wiggling worms.
The plot stops making sense by the thirty-minute mark, but it’s your basic “policewoman searching for her father’s killer” story. It’s set in an alternate reality Tokyo where the police are a private company whose main job is to kill these nearly invulnerable supervillain-type characters called “engineers”. If you try to hurt an “engineer”, it only makes him stronger. Shoot his eye out and a new super-eye grows back. Cut his arm off and some new mutant crocodile-like appendage sprouts up in its place. Bite his tallywhacker off and it grows back as a big, pink cannon between his legs.
Bottom line: It’s another gross-out flick that’s played for laughs. It’s likable, but I’ve seen Snickers commercials that are more suspenseful. Recommended for drunken after-midnight viewing only.