good back-story, and good acting

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

It shouldn't be a surprise to you that this movie is bizarre, gory and perverse and for adults and genre-fans only. The title is obvious enough and anybody who disliked this movie can't tell me that he didn't know what to expect from this weird b-movie.''Tokyo Gore Police'' takes places in a dystopian future where the Tokyo Police Force has been privatized and recalls elements of a radical paramilitary organization. The organization fights so-called ''Engineers'' which are monstrous humans that sprout bizarre weapons from an injury. A superb Eihi Shiina, most known for her stunning debut in Takashi Miike's ''Audition'', incarnates a lonesome police officer with Borderline personality disorder who fights these creatures and tries to identify the crazy scientist that first created the ''Engineers''.While the story seems to be simplistic at first sight, it's not as shallow as it seems. Over the course of the movie, we get to know the background story of the police officer who had a mentally deranged mother and whose father was a proud police officer who was killed by a hit-man. The background story of the crazy scientist as well as the reasons for the existence of the radical paramilitary organization are also explained step by step and lead to a brutal showdown.This movie is filled with hilarious ideas and memorable scenes. Among the transformed monsters, we can see female sex slaves whose arms and legs have been replaced by swords or machine guns for example. The most deranging scene is probably the part that takes place in a decadent strip club where a police officer gets tortured by a prostitute whose lower body parts change into the upper body part of an alligator.We also get to see some social criticism in this movie. The main plot is sometimes interrupted with short television advertisements that promote self-harm and similar decadent behaviours in a humorous way. These clips criticize dangerous and weird trends in our society.You can enjoy this movie as the abnormally nasty horror flick that it is or as some bitter social criticism in a most dystopian world. It's your choice whether you simply want to be emotionally entertained or intellectually instructed by this film while a mixture of both is probably the most recommended manner to approach this unusual production. No matter what your choice is, please be aware that the content of this film is highly disturbing for those who aren't familiar with the gore genre or experimental Japanese cinema.

Wow...Yes, Japanese cinema is absolutely bonkers! Many people on this board has said so, and i am definitely not arguing that fact!I do not know what other movies this director has made (haven't bothered to check yet), but one thing is certain: He desperately wants to do - nah, strike that, he desperately DREAMS about "doing" the heroine, Eihi Shiina! Not "doing" as in killing her, but "the other kind" of doing her! Just look at the juxtaposition in the scenes, the editing...it's sexy as hell despite all the gore...(which tends to get a little boring, to tell the truth...How many shots of limbs cut followed by the cameras lense getting sprayed by blood do a movie really need?!)Now, i don't blame him; she is gorgeous in all her scenes (no doubt because the director shot it like this), doing a good job at portraying a character we can believe in in this mess of a story...come to think of it, maybe this movie exists because of her? It's telling that i'd still want to see HER in another movie after having tormented myself sitting through this movie...

This is possibly THE WORST FILM IN CREATION. The actors are BAD. The only thing that this film has is gore and blood and guts. Thats it. If your looking for a decent film that actually has a storyline and reasonably good acting then don't even bother with this film. If you can get past just the trailer then you have BAD TASTE!!! This is definitely a perfect film for stoned off their trolleys people as quoted by another reviewer. I normally do love gore fest films such as Planet Terror but this film is absolutely nothing like that. That film was actually ridiculously brilliant. I don't know what people are talking about when they say the visual effects are brilliant, they are possible THE WORST effects to ever be put into a film, they couldn't be anymore UNREALISTIC!!! This is what happens when film makers who don't have a lot of money make a horror movie. They literally just fill it from beginning to end with nothing but blood, guts and sex!!! What happened to taking advice from film makers like George A Romero who didn't bother with either barely any nudity or none at all in all of his films. You shouldn't have to cram all this crap into a film to get it to sell. I know they say sex sells but get real, have at least some class!!!

Aren't Japanese people the best at making bizarre movies? You know, they can take an idea totally lame and senseless like "a Japanese pro-wrestler who transforms into a squid before he dies so he can fight again and go back with his girlfriend" and turn it in one of my favorite movies ever ("Calamari Wrestler"), but this... is not the case. Now, I have seen a lot of Japanese crap, and I love most of it, my favorite gore one is "Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl", which is original, funny, senseless, with cheap effects and a lot of energy put into it; Tokyo Gore Police fails at all of those things, one thing is doing a gore movie with a plot always developing, and another thing is doing a gore movie with random blood at screen for a ridiculous amount of time, the plot stops suddenly for more than 10 minutes to show random flashbacks that don't make sense, violence sequences that can last less than a minute but instead they last more than 5, characters that suddenly appear, you don't know who they're and "oh, he is dead. Maybe I would be touched in some way if he had any character development at all". To sum up this movie is bad, REALLY BAD, and is the only Japanese bizarre movie that I gave less than 5 stars, avoid this one if you can and watch something else.