![]() Footage from the 2016 Japanese premiere.The razor sharp image does not disappoint. The transfer that was provided to Arrow is drop dead gorgeous. If you’re a Miike fan or a fan of cult genre cinema you owe it to yourself to spend an evening with this one. The results are so on brand for the director one will wonder how he convinced a Japanese studio to Fund this one. Terra Formars is Miike on a grand scale and a huge budget. As the movie’s plot and end game begin to formulate Miike goes in to overdrive with set pieces that recall just as much “superhero” as it does the best of the Japanese Martial Arts movies of the 1970s. Miike is making his own Godzilla movie where Godzilla’s universe rules don’t apply. The design of not only the cockroaches but the other bugs as well seems goofy, and from 60 s Japanese Sci-fi but that’s the point. That Miike instinct to go the path less traveled works in this case. Miike adapting the manga of the same name has made a film that makes some bold choices that seem goofy at first but make the film even better upon retrospect. Given powers and a suicide mission this group of a dozen men and women must work together for their survival.įrom the above description one would not think this film is anything more than a standard “men on a mission” film set in Space ala James Cameron’s Aliens. ![]() Little do these criminals know they are at the mercy of the trillion are eccentric that has funded this mission. This one is on par with Starship Troopers without the critique of Facism.Ī group of criminal are given a chance at “Fortune and Glory” by going to Mars to eradicate all the insects brought by a terraforming expedition. Takashi Miike is in fine form with the lunatic Terra Formars which is part Sci-fi adventure part kaiju epic. ![]() Arrow Video has done the world a huge favor by releasing the truly deranged Terra Formas on Blu-Ray. Our purpose? To clean Mars of Cockroaches.
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