Violence Jack, Part 1, Slum King

This post apocalyptic tale of giant on giant violence and porno rape sets out to be serious and dark but with the aid of a ridiculous set of character designs , bad dialogue and a bland script , fails. Badly.

Add to this set of flaws a hero who is just as unlikable as the villains he graphically crushes under his big feet , and you get a violent , corny , and unintentionally hilarious anime that's best watched and mabey (just mabey) enjoyed while drunk. Very , very drunk.

Violence jack ? Unintentionally funny jack more like. grrrr.

The screen dwellers (mark out of 5): *

This movie was so boring. It was your typical anime boring crap, filled with satanism, female nudity (But almost nothing of Male nudity, that's why it sucks) ugly designs, a stupid plot and boring and bland characters.

This show was so stupid and boring, that it was completely worthless.

There wasn't any single good thing about this, everything about this show sucked.

This movie is pretty lame, even for anime standards. Unless you are an anime fan, don't waste your time seeing this crap.

What a stupid movie, and what a waste of time. This sucks hard

To its credit, I did watch this anime all the way through. Most of Go Nagai's productions have that effect on me. But if you're a fan of anime, keep in mind, not all anime that makes it to this side of the Pacific is good.

There were some half-hearted attempts to bring some sophistication to this story, but personally, I was quickly distracted from those attempts by the gratuitous breast shots and the fountains of blood.

There is also an attempt to build Savage Jack into a anti-hero, which doesn't completely succeeds, and winds up making him more of a thug than anything else.

This OVA is short and craptacular, so this review will be too. If there's anything redeeming about this OVA, it's got to be the gratuitous, grisly violence. *Disclaimer: Not an 80s anime guru by any means

Art: 7 Despite how old it is.. they did at least try to make the gore brutal by drawing in viscera and not just red waves. A couple of satisfying moments, mostly eh otherwise.

Enjoyment: 4 As stated above, if you like grisly, (but cheesy) violence, and some random sexual violence thrown in to be a shocker, there's some entertainment to be gleaned from this. Otherwise, it's asinine and absurd.

Sound: 3 Cheesy as hell 80's music. Probably ripped from a C list porno and the creator thought Violence Jack was so stupid that it wasn't worth suing over.

Story: 2 Imagine Mad Max, make the plot nonsensical with the only unifying theme as violence, and 30 minutes long.

Characters: 2 Violence Jack doesn't even speak in this, yet they make it a point to beat you over the head about explaining how intelligent he is... Well, he's good at using his knife to intelligently eviscerate people, and that's about all. The rest of the 'cast' are a bunch of aimless morons who serve little to no purpose other than to be cannon fodder and take up some screen time running around.

Overall: 3.6 (rounds up to 4, because I laughed a couple of times at how ridiculous it was) I was told this was an 80's schlockfest of depravity and ultraviolence. Perhaps I'm just really desensitized to violence, but there wasn't anything abhorrent or reviling here. Violence Jack succeeds in that it achieves what it set out to do. It's not trying to provoker deeper thought or offer extended introspective metaphor. It promises violence, and delivers. I'll give them points for trying; the 80's were a shocking time.

What, I'm supposed to not watch a trashy straight-to-video anime trilogy from the 1980s after learning that it's called Violence Jack and the main character is also named Violence Jack? And people usually refer to him as Violence Jack? And it's also set in a dystopian world where people are apparently made of plasticine?

Actually, maybe I shouldn't have. This was pretty empty and eventually also got perverted... but, to its credit, later than expected, which counts as restraint by the standards of a 40-minute-long anime film called Violence Jack.

The other two Violence Jacks are better-rated, so maybe I'll keep going next time I have three-quarters of an hour to spare. Also, the English dub is bad enough that I'd recommend it, as something that probably enhanced the experience rather than hurt it.