Customer Review(s)
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Reject of Death was awsome
Comment: So I just finished watching this, I was pumped about the great reviews and had just bought 'Machine Girl' and liked that alot, and was hopping for more blood and gore ext...... Hmmmm what to really say......?
If you watch the original short first and then watch film it will make it so much better o_O I was a bit disappointed in the over all movie, it lacked something I just don't know what it is.
Anyway 'Reject of Death' was awsome, if it had not been for that short film and I suppose it's the prequel to Meatball Machine, I would have given only 1 star maybe 2, sorry everyone who really enjoyed it, but thank God for Reject of Death, it made it worth buying the DVD.
Reject of Death I give 5 stars, It disturbed me, it made me LOL, and cry because it ended and was way to short, but I guess that's why they call it a short. Buy it just for Reject of Death.
Customer Rating: Summary: Confusion abounds in a bath of blood
Comment: You know the makers of the film are not taking themselves very seriously when the movie starts with two silhouetted monsters talking to each other. Meatballs! Tacos! This introduction is in English with Japanese subtitles, but the movie itself is in the Japanese language with English subtitles. The movie then starts with a fight scene between two cyborg creatures, the winner eating the other's strange heart-bulb. The film starts bloody, runs bloody, and ends bloody.
Shy factory worker Yoji (a real weenie) has been watching a girl across the fence, but doesn't have the courage to introduce himself. One night he catches a co-worker trying to rape the girl, Sachiko, in the park. He tries to beat up the co-worker but fails, even though the man leaves Sachiko alone. The two go back to Yoji's apartment where Yoji has one of the strange creatures in a travel bag. He captured it in a pile of garbage after being beat up by a transvestite. As Sachiko confesses her dark secret, the monster comes alive, jumps out of the closet, and rapes Sachiko before turning her into a cyborg creature. Yoji of course does nothing, he's too scared. He runs from Sachiko only to be knocked out and found on the streets by a strange man who lives in a crappy apartment and seems to be the only person in Japan who's aware of the monsters and knows what they're doing. Then he turns Yoji into one of the monsters, but Yoji escapes to look for Sachiko.
That's the plot. Very thin, but of course the movies isn't about the plot. It's about hungry little buggers who like to eat each other and raise havoc. It's about ropy tendrils, split heads, eye gouging, heart bulbs, slime, eyeball drills, gooey skeletons, and a little masturbation, a transvestite, and a prostitute for good measure. We're also treated to a little "monster vision", seeing humans from the creature's eyes. The aliens are funny, looking a little like a twisted beanie-baby with some goo thrown on it. And, of course, it's about blood, blood, blood.
The photography is sketchy, using a lot of scene skipping and "flashes", the film isn't shot in video but it has the feel of video. The dialogue is stilted, and the acting just mediocre, and the FX a little cheesy. But you came here for blood and you'll get plenty of that. I'm not a usual fan of Japanese or Asian horror films, but 'Meatball Machine' is one of the rare ones I liked. With the humor thrown around the film like the blood, and some wild imagination with the cyborg creatures, it manages to raise itself from a typical foreign horror flick to something every type of horror fan can enjoy. Rent first. Enjoy!
Customer Rating: Summary: Mmmm...meatballs...
Comment: The Good Things
*Grossest movie ever! Loads of blood and perversity! (Reminds me a lot of the anime show "Gantz").
*A few good gory fight scenes.
*Good filming style. Lots of good camera angles. Has a distinctive look and style.
*Production design is good. Imagine the monsters from the "Quake" or "Unreal" computer games in a movie.
*Simple but interesting story.
*Surprisingly good characters. Although many of them are perverts, the main character spends much of the film trying to act noble.
*Romance is not overwhelmingly sappy, and is touching at some parts.
The Bad Things
*The squeamish should avoid this like the plague.
*Pretty low production value (but the quality of the cinematography makes up for it).
Ah, so this is what "Gantz" looks like if it was a live-action movie! Not only are the two gory as hell, but they also share similar themes and attitudes of sexuality. Plus, both deal with freaky aliens and stuff. Unlike "Gantz," however, this film works better at being scary and immersive. This is definately one of the better B-rated movies I know of, but it's not for anybody with a weak stomach.
DVD has good video and sound quality, and contains a couple of featurettes, two additonal films ("Maximum Meatball Machine" and "The Original Meatball Machine"), and trailers.
