I need warning labels for foreign B movies so I don’t accidentally watch them because I think they’ll be fun B movies as opposed to an accidental screed about the emptiness & corrupting influence of revenge. The Machine Girl felt like a live action anime, but not in a good way. It had all the flatness of dialogue & visual style of anime without a layered, riveting story line. I lost interest in about a half hour. Initially it seemed promising: allusions to the hypocrisy of a neighborhood that calls innocent people murderers while the mockers gleefully terrorize & kill their employees & neighbors, but the plot soon descended into a mindless, boring gore fest. Even the people that the audience is supposed to root for begin to feel creepy & sadistic. I am willing to concede that something could have been lost in translation because I did love Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror, a homage to grind house films, but I understood the illusions; the bad guys were clearly bad guys (zombies) so killing them was not dehumanizing, but necessary for survival; the acting was intelligent; the plot was fast paced & engrossing. This was none of those things & was a rip off of Planet Terror. It isn’t enough to put a machine appendage on a person to make a movie interesting. Apparently I don’t like a movie just because a woman is kicking butt. Good to know.