Review of Tokyo Gore Police (2008) by Simon R — 15 Feb 2010

Proof that anyone who thinks that so-called "torture porn" is proof of people's sick minds really hasn't seen anything yet. It's hard to describe Tokyo Gore Police. Start with Robocop's ultra-violent future, social satire, and privatized police force, add in David Cronenberg's obsession with body horror and mutation, and multiply it all by Troma's gleefully over-the-top gore, and you might create something approximating Tokyo Gore Police.

Or, put it this way: when a movie opens with a chainsaw duel, you know you're in for something special. The end result doesn't always make a lot of sense, but you can never really call it boring; any movie that has people growing guns out of eye sockets, to say nothing of acid-squirting.

..you know, let's just say that there's things here you've never seen before. Yes, it's funny and gleefully absurd; yes, it plays out like a video game; yes, it often goes right for the gross-out.

But, hey, look at the title - did you really expect high art here?