Product Description: Naomi armitage and ross sylibus have changed their names and live with their daughter yoko as a normal happy family on mars until a robot riot breaks out at an anti-matter plant on earth. Armitage learns that the riot is a plot to suppress evidence of illegeal research and development of third robots. Studio: Geneon Entertainment Release Date: 06/25/2002 Starring: Voice Of Juliette Lewis Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Nr
Amazon.com: This sequel offers little of the Blade Runner-influenced vision of a despotic future that made the original OAV and previous feature so popular. After living peacefully under assumed names on Mars, Naomi Armitage and her husband Ross Sylibus are drawn into a standard anime plot involving a sinister corporation's efforts to create artificial humans. The curvaceous Naomi is actually a "Third," the most formidable type of cyborg. (She's even borne a child, which suggests just how sophisticated her circuitry is.) Naomi takes on the duplicates of her that the evil Demetrius Mardini has created, in a series of gunfights, fistfights, knife fights, and explosions. Despite the film's promising origins, clumsy storytelling and director Katsuhito Akiyama's tendency to stage many of the battles in dim dramatic lighting hurt its impact, as it's difficult to follow what's happening. Rated 16 Up: Graphic violence, violence against women, nudity, profanity. --Charles Solomon