Screamfestindo 2007: Vexille (2007)

Vexille. Film review. I hate noisy films. Films that were literally infested with soundtracks. Not any soundtracks per se, but more of a soundtrack that mostly consists of techno, trance, or any electronic loops kind of thing. You know, those night-club musics thingy where you'd go to get drunk and get laid? Those kind of things. Sounds vauge, but i'm sure you get my point. For all it's worth, Vexille was infested with these kind of soundtracks, and at 110 minutes, it went from awe - the overall animations were cool and catchy to look at - to boredom rather quickly.

At 2067, Japan was proved as the world dominance in robot technology. They built magnificent robots either for domestic or war-machines purpose unparalleled by any other countries. This prompt the UN to propose a restriction regulation regarding robot industry (not unlike those regulations with nuclear power). Japan was naturally declined, and even went as far as pulling itself from the UN. And when the tension reached its height, Japan isolates itself from the world. This means roughly, that no signal, electronic or otherwise, were able to in and out of Japan territory without scrambled. The satellite surveliences were rendered useless, foreigners deported, and shortly afterwards, the world have no idea whatsoever what happened inside of Japan.

Vexille is the name of one of the seven agent sent by - who else? - the U.S to infiltrate Japan in order to unveiled the mystery that was going on inside Japan.

I found it rather contradictory. The world feared Japan for its advancement in technology. Yet, everybody in this film speaks fluent Japanese. Be it Americans, Africans, even physically portrayed sheiks. But, that was a side note anyway. I found myself quickly losing interests nevertheless.

Otherwise, the film was 'safe'. The heroes and heroines were typical of Japanese manga and anime. They're cool, calm, and confident. If you've read many mangas or seen many animes, you know exactly the types. But like it or not, there's always such thing called 'too many' in just about anything. And if it comes to 'too many', it rarely meant a good thing. I simply had passed beyond the point of 'too many'.

And, what the? Vexille had a relationship with Leon - yet, another typical Japanese 'cool' hero name -, the leader of the team. It was soo unprofessional. And more than once you'd see Vexille looking in awe and affection to Leon. I rolled my eyes upward everytime she did that. I mean, it was a common rule that no marriage or relationships were allowed between workers in a same division. Come on. It was sooo unprofessional. Quite probably, I had decided to hate the film right away, when it displays the affection between Vexille and Leon. This implies that of 110 minutes of running time, i had to suffer for roughly 105 minutes. Give or take.