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Not only do you get the cyborgs taking pot-shots at our heroes but you get racing vehicles with weapons, drivers with magic powers and angry robots. Then we get to the race and for forty five minutes it feels like your eyeballs could melt at any time. The rest of the film calms down a bit as JP strikes up a relationship with a female champion and it is determined that Redline will take place on the planet Roboworld, dominated by a cyborg dictatorship.
JP has been plagued by charges of corruption his whole career and this haunts him. The racers are made up of aliens, cyborgs, witches, mutants and humans and our human character JP comes second, crashing violently. At the beginning we see the ‘Yellow Line’ race which sets the tone for the rest of the film, at this point you’ll either go with it or turn it off completely depending on how much sugar or LSD you have ingested.
However some foolhardy individuals take part in an intergalactic racing tournament with a traditional four wheels that culminates in the Redline finale. Taking place in the distant future, Redline introduces a galaxy where the air car has taken over from the traditional kind of car with wheels. If they ever do a remake/reboot of Wacky Races (and they will) this is how they should do it. Redline is almost great, a good deal of your appreciation for it will depend on how much tolerance you have for the more exaggerated and flashy style of anime that has become prevalent. Of course we still get the occasional Studio Ghibli release and every now and then a quality release like Summer Wars which was released earlier this year.
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Nowadays the market has shrunk considerably and seems limited to mostly banal anime TV series’ that seem more aimed at teenage boys with their exaggerated female forms. Of course you could always blind buy them, but VHS always seemed so expensive compared to DVD which wasn’t on the market back then. Back then it seemed to be a lot of anime films were released on video and part of the fun was catching up with all of them if you were lucky enough to find a video store that could rent them to you. Review: Redline (15) / Directed by: Takeshi Koike / Written by: Katsuhito Ishii, Yoji Enokido, Yoshiki Sakurai / Starring: Takuya Kimura, Yu Aoi, Tadanobu Asano / Release Date: Out Now It’s been a long time since the anime boom in the west that took place in the early 90s.
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