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Rating: 6 stars

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All movies seen on 01/30/2024

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The Next Generation Patlabor: Tokyo War (2015)

Directed by Mamoru Oshii

Science Fiction | Thriller | Action

Overview

An attack takes place on Rainbow Bridge in Odaiba, Tokyo by the fighter helicopter `Gray Ghost`. 2 days earlier, the Gray Ghost was stolen. The perpetrators are followers of Yukihito Tsuge. Yukihito Tsuge planned a coup of Tokyo 13 years earlier. The leader of Special Vehicle Section 2, Keiji Gotoda, sets out to stop the terrorists.

Length 100 minutes

Actors

Toshio Kakei | Erina Mano | Seiji Fukushi | Rina Ohta | Yoshinori Horimoto | Kohei Shiotsuka | Yoshikatsu Fujiki | Shigeru Chiba | Kanna Mori | Kotaro Yoshida | Reiko Takashima | Aki Shibuya | Yoshiko Sakakibara

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

You’d think a movie in the Patlabor franchise with Patlabor in the title would have actual Labors in it. Oh it does but they don’t show up until the final sequence and are barely utilized. So weird. If this was just a standard military thriller it would be easier to accept.

Most of the movie is just talking and more talking. The highlight is the siege on the terrorist base in which Kaysha (Rina Ohta) destroys dudes. This movie needed way more of that and a less talking.

That’s a 8/10 scene in a 5/10 movie. I do like the Grey Ghost helicopter but it makes no sense why Haibara would turn off the invisibility camo during the battle. A lot of that final sequence doesn’t add up.

Apparently there’s an extended director’s cut which I’d like to see but no idea how to obtain it.

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