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In the future, war rages on Mars. Captain Akuh and his crew are on a top-secret mission to destroy an enemy warship when an officer is stricken with an alien mind control plague. As the plague spreads, inciting madness and treason, Akuh must complete his mission, annihilate the alien battleship, and save the fate of the human race.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Anime is a wonderful thing. Until recently, really imaginitive stories simply could not be shot as live action because the cost was prohibitive. Anime, which is cheap in comparion, has brought us such amazingly imaginitive worlds as Akira, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop and so many more.
WHy do I bring all this up? Because Big Wars is a imaginitive idea that only works on anime. And...unfortunetly, it doesn't even work well there.
Big Wars is set on Mars where humans have run headlong into the amrs of the Gods...a strange and ill explained race of angelic women who kick the stuffing out of every human they meet. The main weapon of the humans is the Land Ship, a counter grav drab green battleship that uses guns and missiles in an age when space travel and terra forming are common place. Supporting these massive ships are fighters that, during the entire movie never manage to do anything but die, and armored soldiers who, when set against the elfin Gods, fall with alarming speed. So up went my eyebrow when the human leaders claimed victory at any point.
The main antagonist is the generically named Hell, a massive stealth carrier that wipes out everything that gets close to it and is surrounded by a permanent sandstorm. Our hero in the movie, who's name I do not remember, gets the newest ship to go out and kill Hell. "gasp"
References aside, there is no biblical message here, no deeper meaning to naming these things after various religeous items. I would suspect translation error was it not for the producing company being american. Further, this movie has a number unexplained and totally left field themes that the writers make no effort to explain and do not bother to ground them in science, science fiction or even fantasy. They lie somwhere in the mushed middle ground of the affore mentioned genre.
But I am giving it three stars. Why you ask, after I have attacked with suck venom? Because its just fun to watch the onscreen fights. Push aside the gretuitous sex, needless plot lines and totally braindead character development and one finds a fun and exciting war flick that has plenty of on-screen pyrotechnics and death. The land ships, as unbelievable as they are for modern warfare, look great with their turrets turning and launchers spewing missiles. The fighters, even though they really seem to suck, look great. The alien tech, which is more amorphious and unorigional, include flying saucers and weird walking things with guns. Even so, its worth a few bucks to watch them rip through the human forces like (insert timeless metaphore here). And, when the end of the movie comes, you won't feel fufilled...you won't be any smarter...but maybe your bloodlust will be abated for the short walk to your computer and whatever your playing on it.
WHy do I bring all this up? Because Big Wars is a imaginitive idea that only works on anime. And...unfortunetly, it doesn't even work well there.
Big Wars is set on Mars where humans have run headlong into the amrs of the Gods...a strange and ill explained race of angelic women who kick the stuffing out of every human they meet. The main weapon of the humans is the Land Ship, a counter grav drab green battleship that uses guns and missiles in an age when space travel and terra forming are common place. Supporting these massive ships are fighters that, during the entire movie never manage to do anything but die, and armored soldiers who, when set against the elfin Gods, fall with alarming speed. So up went my eyebrow when the human leaders claimed victory at any point.
The main antagonist is the generically named Hell, a massive stealth carrier that wipes out everything that gets close to it and is surrounded by a permanent sandstorm. Our hero in the movie, who's name I do not remember, gets the newest ship to go out and kill Hell. "gasp"
References aside, there is no biblical message here, no deeper meaning to naming these things after various religeous items. I would suspect translation error was it not for the producing company being american. Further, this movie has a number unexplained and totally left field themes that the writers make no effort to explain and do not bother to ground them in science, science fiction or even fantasy. They lie somwhere in the mushed middle ground of the affore mentioned genre.
But I am giving it three stars. Why you ask, after I have attacked with suck venom? Because its just fun to watch the onscreen fights. Push aside the gretuitous sex, needless plot lines and totally braindead character development and one finds a fun and exciting war flick that has plenty of on-screen pyrotechnics and death. The land ships, as unbelievable as they are for modern warfare, look great with their turrets turning and launchers spewing missiles. The fighters, even though they really seem to suck, look great. The alien tech, which is more amorphious and unorigional, include flying saucers and weird walking things with guns. Even so, its worth a few bucks to watch them rip through the human forces like (insert timeless metaphore here). And, when the end of the movie comes, you won't feel fufilled...you won't be any smarter...but maybe your bloodlust will be abated for the short walk to your computer and whatever your playing on it.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The animation was cool, but the storyline lacked a whole lot of substance. This movie needs a lot more background information for it to be interesting. Also, remember the speeder chase through the forest in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi? Well, expect to hear those very sound bytes for the alien fighters in this movie...
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Well, it was good. I enjoyed it, but it was not the best plot and the characters had 2-D personalitys.. The worst thing, though, was how abruptly it ended. Other than that it had that great Japanese animation, and it was pretty fun to watch.
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Hard to find
Some of the end fight scenes are interesting, but overall not a great story. I recommend paying no more than $9 for this.
Published on May 21, 2010 by Branford Marsalis
Big Drawers
This movie stinks. The wars aren't "big," and the big aren't "wars." But there's a lot of smoke and stuff, if you're into that sort of thing. Read more
Published on February 6, 2003 by Clint J. Desena
Horrible film is a nonstop freak show
Mundane, bottom-of-the-barrel futuristic STAR WARS - type movie, tracks the exploits of a land battleship called the Aeoba and its captain as they battle it out in long, dreary... Read more
Published on May 2, 2001
now officely one of my favorite movies
so sue me, I was wrong. In my first revue of Big Wars I said I did not like. well, I saw it again and I loved it. Read more
Published on March 21, 2001 by noah oskow
Ok, a bit disappointing though
This movie was rather dissapointing to me. If you like action anime movies then steer clear of this one, it doesn't have too much action, except towards the end. Read more
Published on May 12, 2000 by Roy Golombick
Not bad but not exactly great either
I had mixed feelings about this anime. For one, it felt too short for the story it was trying to tell. Read more
Published on November 12, 1999
The animation was great, the story was good, but....
The animation was excellent up in the catagory of Ghost and Akira, the story was fairly well done, the only problem I had with it, was that it was real short. Read more
Published on October 25, 1999
It's an... "okay" movie...
This was a pretty good anime, but still, there are only a couple of things that I did not like about it.
1: The sex... Read more
Published on August 20, 1999
The Japanime version of "Independence Day" but on Mars!
If you are an Anime fan and have not seen this movie, shame on you! If you are new to veiwing Anime movies than this is a great movie to start with. Read more
Published on July 4, 1999
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