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		List Price: $14.98		Label: Geneon [Pioneer] Salesrank: 51247 Released: October 15, 1997
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		MPAA Rating: Unrated Media: DVD

Armitage III - Poly-Matrix Reviews:
Exactly what I wanted
2009-10-23 - I am very pleased with the product. The seller sold it to me and within a week I received the item. Fabulous seller!

A anime Classic
2009-04-27 - Arimtage III is a truly great anime OVA. Sadly it came out about the same time as the original GHOST IN THE SHELL, and was overlooked for the overrated Ghost in the Shell movie. The story is far better, truly delving into whether machines are alive or not and could they be considered human, along with many other questions. Can they fall in love, or even have children. Then there are the two main characters, Naomi Armitage and Ross Sylibus. They add depth and bring life to the story. The action is great keeping you watching even in the quiet times of the anime. The animation isn't as great as it was after all it's been 13 years since it first came out, but it still holds up today. I would highly recommend this anime over any of the Ghost in the Shell anime

Good movie, bad DVD transfer
2008-09-02 - Whilst I loved the movie when it first came out I was hoping the 'Signature Series' would rectify the problems of the VHS tape. Luckily there's 2 upsides, the sound has been upgraded to 5.1 Dolby and the picture has been remastered. Unfortunately the picture suffers from image stabilisation (it moves up & down a little bit during some scenes but that could be because of the original source) and there's still a fair bit of grain but the colours are polished

This DVD claims it has a widescreen presentation but its not enhanced for widescreen TVs - it is in fact a 16:9 ratio inside of a 4:3 so if you have a widescreen tv like myself, you're going to have black borders on all sides and a tiny picture in the middle! Also this movie has been cropped to make it look cinematic (as I discovered when I ordered it along with the OVA DVD) so you're missing literally half of the animation cells.

Negativities aside its still a good movie, its just very unfortunate that its one main problem with the original Poly Matrix DVD has not been fixed and as a result the whole movie suffers. I'd recommend buying the OVA though, the picture displayed is bigger, the english dub may be different but there's also a japanese audio option & an extended 50min of additional footage that was taken out from the movie

Armitage may be a third but shes number one in my book.
2008-04-25 - I was a teen the first time I saw this movie and it was probably the first anime I ever saw so when I saw it on Amazon I had to buy it. This is a classic anime movie that is well wroth seeing.

The animation is at times a little bit shaky but the fight scenes are top notch. And you can really feel Armitage's struggle, feeling and wanting to be human but not sure if she really is. Not sure if her emotions and feeling are real or if the is just a doll made to think they are.

Cheers, BB

Clip Show
2008-03-25 - This was the first Anime i consciously watched knowing that the film came from Japan and not America. To say the least, Armitage III: Polymatrix deserves its place in Geneon's(Pioneer) Signature Series. Its beautifully Animated, the voice acting is top notch, and the film has a strong resonance with fans, and serves as a textbook example of the cyberpunk genre. Unfortunately, the film is a cut-down version of the OVA. This generally is not a problem, but Pioneer cut out several crucial scenes that are central to the continuity of the film. Most obvious is a scene of Lt. Randolph expressing concern of the misconduct of Dect. Syllabus. With out the scene of Ross breaking into a penthouse to interrogate a witness, who is the blown up by the villainous D'ne Claude, the whole scene with Randolph makes little sense, nor do several comments about Ross becoming a "bad guy cop" later in the film.

Were it not for these flaws, this film would easily get all 5 stars, but as it stands, the onlything the film holds over the OVA is the supurb english dub. a must for fans, and a great starting point for those interested in anime