Yoshihiro Nishimura’s high-energy splatterthon Helldriver is a film in which the criticism I have to offer appears beyond the point because a description of certain scenes in the film is all that’s needed to convince any prospective audience to take a chance on it. So when I say that Helldriver, in its first thirty minutes, has a lengthy scene where the robotically-enhanced heroine, armed with a weapon that hybridizes a chainsaw and a katana, is fighting an army of alien zombies, all of which are wielding chainsaws, and manages to sever all of their arms, at which point the arms, still holding the chainsaws, continue to advance on her… well, if you made it through that description and are currently…

Yoshihiro Nishimura’s high-energy splatterthon Helldriver is a film in which the criticism I have to offer appears beyond the point because a description of certain scenes in the film is all that’s needed to convince any prospective audience to take a chance on it. So when I say that Helldriver, in its first thirty minutes, has a lengthy scene where the robotically-enhanced heroine, armed with a weapon that hybridizes a chainsaw and a katana, is fighting an army of alien zombies, all of which are wielding chainsaws, and manages to sever all of their arms, at which point the arms, still holding the chainsaws, continue to advance on her… well, if you made it through that description and are currently…

Det vanskeligste du kan gjøre som regissør er å følge opp en suksess og for den japanske filmskaperen Yoshihiro Nishimura (RoboGeisha) kunne ikke ordtaket ha stemt bedre for når han først har gitt oss den heseblesende Tokyo Gore Police har ikke mannen gjort det enkelt for seg selv. Dog skal han ha for forsøket for når ingenting annet fungerer er det lite som er enklere enn å blåkopiere sin egen suksessoppskrift.

Det er en stygg uting det der med å sammenligne en film med en regissørs tidligere filmer men i dette tilfellet er det også vanskelig å unngå samtidig som HellDriver tilhører en sjanger ytterst få her på berget har kjennskap til. Yoshihiro Nishimura koker her sammen en sedvanlig idiotisk…