IslandGuru Who payed the critics

Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

phanthinga I love Japan cinema take on every genre sometime it can be deeply disturbing and thought-provoking like Takashi Miike Audition or sometime it can be over the top and batsh*t crazy like this movie Tokyo Gore Police.With the plot just as much crazy this movie will may sure to satisfied any gorehound fan while watching the bloody journey to revenge of a female cop named Ruka played by the lead actor of Audition Eihi Shiina.The practical effect in this movie is top notch with any insane idea you can imagine in a body horror movie.Non of the characters are normal so the line between good and evil is very blurry.Don't think while watching this movie or else your brain may hurt just sit back and enjoy the wild experience Tokyo Gore Police give you

kluseba It shouldn't be a surprise to you that this movie is bizarre, gory and perverse and for adults and genre-fans only. The title is obvious enough and anybody who disliked this movie can't tell me that he didn't know what to expect from this weird b-movie.''Tokyo Gore Police'' takes places in a dystopian future where the Tokyo Police Force has been privatized and recalls elements of a radical paramilitary organization. The organization fights so-called ''Engineers'' which are monstrous humans that sprout bizarre weapons from an injury. A superb Eihi Shiina, most known for her stunning debut in Takashi Miike's ''Audition'', incarnates a lonesome police officer with Borderline personality disorder who fights these creatures and tries to identify the crazy scientist that first created the ''Engineers''.While the story seems to be simplistic at first sight, it's not as shallow as it seems. Over the course of the movie, we get to know the background story of the police officer who had a mentally deranged mother and whose father was a proud police officer who was killed by a hit-man. The background story of the crazy scientist as well as the reasons for the existence of the radical paramilitary organization are also explained step by step and lead to a brutal showdown.This movie is filled with hilarious ideas and memorable scenes. Among the transformed monsters, we can see female sex slaves whose arms and legs have been replaced by swords or machine guns for example. The most deranging scene is probably the part that takes place in a decadent strip club where a police officer gets tortured by a prostitute whose lower body parts change into the upper body part of an alligator.We also get to see some social criticism in this movie. The main plot is sometimes interrupted with short television advertisements that promote self-harm and similar decadent behaviours in a humorous way. These clips criticize dangerous and weird trends in our society.You can enjoy this movie as the abnormally nasty horror flick that it is or as some bitter social criticism in a most dystopian world. It's your choice whether you simply want to be emotionally entertained or intellectually instructed by this film while a mixture of both is probably the most recommended manner to approach this unusual production. No matter what your choice is, please be aware that the content of this film is highly disturbing for those who aren't familiar with the gore genre or experimental Japanese cinema.

bowmanblue I really wanted to LOVE 'Tokyo Gore Police.' I'm a big fan of loud, dumb, deliberately over-the-top movies, so I had high hopes for this one. It fulfilled my expectations, but only half as much as I thought it would.Yes, it's a Japanese movie (so anyone who can't watch a film with subtitles might as well move on right now) and it's set in a futuristic Tokyo where the police have been privatised and catching criminals is big business. This would be awkward enough, if it wasn't for the presence of the mysterious (and also insane) 'engineer's (no, not the same ones from Prometheus, thankfully) who can turn severed limbs into weapons – a feat that has to be seen to be believed. Unfortunately, the extent of these engineers' criminal tendencies doesn't just stop with overcharging you to repair your Honda at the garage. They seem to delight in mass murder and general chaos. Enter 'Ruka' – our surly heroine who specialises in slicing these freakish nut-jobs to pieces before they can grow a rocket launcher where their ankle used to be (seriously, that's the sort of thing they do). So, she sets off to hunt every last one of them down (and possibly learn how they came to be if she has the time).It has all the makings of a decent enough B-movie, but it has the word 'gore' in its title. Therefore, it has to live up to its name. And it does. If you like gore then you will leave this film fulfilled. It has some of the most hideously memorable monstrosities ever to grace the silver screen. I thought many reminded me of some sort of early David Cronenberg film where 'body horror' is used. Until you've seen a woman turn a certain part of her anatomy into a giant crocodile and eaten a man alive then you haven't lived.So it has the gore. It also has the 'look.' And this is where I call it *almost* an 'art house' film. The director seems to have taken great care to frame and colour his shot. There's a lot of colour. It's almost like a living comic book with its brightly-coloured sets. Plus many of the shots are long and deliberately drawn out, giving a sense of offering the viewer more than just a mere slash-up-the-monsters film.So, it gets its plus points for being gory and nice to look at – so far so good. The only thing I felt it lacked was a coherent story. Yes, there is a story in there somewhere, but it seems to lose its way at times. It's nearly two hours long and I felt that it could have lost about twenty minutes in the first half to concentrate on getting from A to B. The second half seems to be a little more focused and therefore makes more sense. However, in the first act I found myself staring at the screen blankly, wondering what was going on (and just waiting for the next gore moment to arrive).Overall, I enjoyed the film. I'm glad I watched it and it has definitely left images in my mind that will never go away (no matter how hard I try to make them!). I just wanted it to have a tighter story, as (when nothing hideous was happening in the first half) I found it a little boring and hard to watch. One of those rare films where it needs a director's cut to actually shorten the film!http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

rpgfan173 Aren't Japanese people the best at making bizarre movies? You know, they can take an idea totally lame and senseless like "a Japanese pro-wrestler who transforms into a squid before he dies so he can fight again and go back with his girlfriend" and turn it in one of my favorite movies ever ("Calamari Wrestler"), but this... is not the case. Now, I have seen a lot of Japanese crap, and I love most of it, my favorite gore one is "Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl", which is original, funny, senseless, with cheap effects and a lot of energy put into it; Tokyo Gore Police fails at all of those things, one thing is doing a gore movie with a plot always developing, and another thing is doing a gore movie with random blood at screen for a ridiculous amount of time, the plot stops suddenly for more than 10 minutes to show random flashbacks that don't make sense, violence sequences that can last less than a minute but instead they last more than 5, characters that suddenly appear, you don't know who they're and "oh, he is dead. Maybe I would be touched in some way if he had any character development at all". To sum up this movie is bad, REALLY BAD, and is the only Japanese bizarre movie that I gave less than 5 stars, avoid this one if you can and watch something else.