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Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

intensepuppy Crazy and visceral. This is quite simply an amazing piece of film-making from the drill penis scene all the way to the ending (open to wild interpretation) where the iron man has transformed and battles it out like some live action end of level boss in a late 80's NES game.Yes, the camera work is bad and the film really grainy (at least my copy was) but for me, it just adds to the surreal and nightmarish vision of the whole thing. Why didn't this launch the directors career in the stratosphere like other weird zero budget features did for other directors? (I'm thinking Pi and Following here).

Paul Celano (chelano) What can I really about this film besides it makes me feel very uncomfortable. You can tell this film had no real budget for special effects. Just make up and tricks they used to make things look; gross. But it worked. I think this movie wouldn't of been that interesting if it wasn't for that. The story itself is very demented and very confusing, but it seems to come together by the end. The cast just did a great job of being so strange and usual. Tomorowo Taguchi plays the iron man and he was just over all fantastic. He rival is played by Nobu Kanaoka. He did just fine, but wasn't as high of standard as Tomorowo. The only other person who sticks out is Kei Fujiwara so can really move her body around. There are many scenes in the film that will leave you cringing at the site of them, but that is what makes this movie great. It I have one complaint it would have to be that the film was pretty confusing. So confusing at points that the movie seemed a lot longer than it was. Other than that, it was strangely amazing.

TheExpatriate700 My acquaintance with Tetsuo began when I was roughly ten or eleven years old. When I first read the advertisement in the paper, it sounded like a typical Japanese kaiju film, and my family looked into seeing it. These plans ended when my father read a review of the film including a content warning mentioning "phallic machinery." I've only recently gotten around to seeing it.Tetsuo the Iron Man is a difficult film to comprehend or categorize. At different points, it shifts between experimental film, science fiction, and an extremely graphic horror film. It also alternates between being interesting and headache inducing.The film follows a young businessman's transformation into a metallic monster. This is Cronenbergian body horror taken to the Nth level, complete with metal growths and a disturbingly positioned pneumatic drill. Given the extremely low budget, the special effects are amazing.However, the film is at times maddeningly difficult to follow or understand. The film's point is difficult if not impossible to pry out, and the how of Tetsuo's transformation is never explained.

Boba_Fett1138 This is definitely one unusual and fine directed movie but it's not quite interesting enough to hold my interest throughout.I absolutely loved the movie for its first part but the movie sort of start to loose it more toward its end. It's already a strange movie for most part but toward the ending things start to make even less sense and you basically start to have no idea anymore what is happening on the screen. You could say that the movie is too long, even though its barely over an hour short. Things in this movie could and should had been wrapped up sooner and perhaps would had been a better watch if it was going somewhere different with its story toward the end.But for most part "Tetsuo" is simply being a visual experience. Just like the original short it got based on, by the same director, the movie focuses on its images and is all about its overall visual orientated directing approach, that makes the movie one weird and intense trip. It's really an artistic movie, that once more shows that movies don't necessarily need to have a real story or point in it to make an intriguing watch.Good and interesting, for most part, if you like 'different' and more artistic cinema.7/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/