Summary: Planetoid-bound space opera follows a brave soldier's opposition amidst devastating mutiny on a remote civilization. Despite the unmistakable nitty-gritty conventional fare, still holds strong appeal to those appreciating visually impressive sci-tales; well-rendered action/animation.
Title Aka:	N/A
Company/Distributors:	U.S. Manga Corps
Year:	1989
Length:	104 Minutes
Rating:
Genres:	Science Fiction, Action
Format:	Feature Film
Content Level:	Violence: Moderate Sex: N/A Nudity: Mild Profanity: Mild
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Synopsis: In the future the population on the Earth has reached numbers of incontrollabe size, and opportunities open for the human race to inhabit many new and larger territories. Such a land is "Venus", the planet where Earth has begun a new and advanced society; a place where hopefully their dreams can come true. But it is always the way with new dreams to be soon shattered (In the world of anime that is). Venus is yet just another colony to evoke new opportunities for other planet's nations to take over Venus. Venus is a technilogical and pollution driven hostile environment, full of humans attempting to carve out a new life in the dangerous and desolate planet. Venus is a place where the air is barely adequate, and where danger can lurk in any corner. However, the people themselves try to establish a better life much like the one they left on Earth. But, there are the youths of Venus; ignoring every aspect of the government's attempt to halt their often troublesome ways; which they only use in order to survive. One of them, "Hiro" a motorcycle-demolition sport driver; yet even him and his friends cannot escape their fate when an opposing nation wages war against the planet. Hiro and his friends get caught up in the various government conspiracies and join in the fight against the opposing nation's armies. "The Venus Wars" chronicles Hiro and his friends' experiences in the battle for the planet; Hiro joins the military and becomes a soldier, only to get separated from his comrades. He in fact must deal with the situation he is in, while a sassy and pertinacious reporter named Susan follows Hiro's every move; while she in turn becomes caught up in the wars dilemma along with Hiro and the rest of the nation of Venus. Review: 'Venus Wars' in a way represents the sheer essence of what is to be science fiction, a truly unique turn in the genre of space-opera, a rather quote: "on-the-verdge" of being an engaging sci-fi war drama, for what appears to be the full potential of this film's intent to be a breakthrough sci-fi epic; but an epic 'Venus' is not, rather a space action movie attempting to break the grounds of much better known cornerstones like "Akira". Though I'm sorry to say, The Venus Wars is nothing much more than a second rate sci-fi flick. Although there are a great number of things that are good about this anime actioneer, such as it's often pervasive attention to detail. The animation in the "Venus Wars" is definately very well done (except for a laughable use of live-action backrounds over some cel animation), some highly detailed animation and smooth frame-rates can be found throughout the film. The movie is rather old, such artistry could be thought to rival pioneers of technical feat much like "Akira". But a technical masterpiece this movie is far from. Although the film is for the most part technically impressive, "VW" is something of a problem. The plot is poorly connected, the characters unconvincing and the production is forgetable; this is too bad, since the Venus Wars contained the potential to become a classic of the anime genre, instead the movie contains a quality we see in most anime movies, which in turn causes them to loose their replay value, and are soon labeled as a "B" movie. But, the story and characters in the Venus Wars is the main problem here. Characters whom we have all seen somewhere before, and a plot which any anime fan can see coming a mile away. On top of all that, the dialouge in the Venus Wars is flat; nothing in the story really seems to connect well together, the movie's storyline seems to be patchwork from other bad anime films. Most scenes of dialouge and humor end up being poorly executed. Although the film's animation seemed to become better and better towards the climax (Which I felt was rather promising), by then it's too late to save this movie. Click Here To See Overview!

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