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Golgo 13: The Professional.

To me, its was The Eighties: The Anime.

Golgo 13, an assassin who lives by a samurai code and never breaks his word, shoots his way through a Sicilian mafia and uncovers that a mysterious organisation is trying to put him 6 feet into the ground. He's a mix of James Bond and Agent 47, which makes him even more badass.

This movie has all the action you could wish for, and more. He pulls off seemingly impossible shots with his rifle, gets into fistfights with special forces and extremely sinister villains, engages in high speed car chases where he drifts round the ... streets of San Francisco, and makes love to several women whilst saxophones perform a romantic rendition in the background.

All this whilst the art is gorgeously drawn, no shots are the same as Golgo 13 stoicly fights through the movie from beginning to end. However, there are some flaws to this movie.

There's the worst CGI scene I've ever witnessed near the end of the spectacle which ruined my immersion completely. I couldn't help but laugh at how out of place the CGI was. Did they run out of money for that scene or something?

Another flaw was that they had spent the entire movie building up the 3 counter assassins who seemed impossible to kill and has Golgo 13 dispatch of them within minutes. On one hand, it does show how invulnerable Golgo is, but on the other hand it does leave me and possibly a lot of other people underwhelmed by how easily they were killed.

All in all, this is a great movie to watch despite the flaws if you're big on action, mystery and maybe even romance and love the eighties as a decade.

Memories is three movies rolled into one package.

The first two movies included, Magnetic Rose and Stink Bomb, were really good. They had compelling characters, great art, voice acting (apart from the obvious Engrish in Stink Bomb) was superb and are both really enjoyable movies.

Why isn't rated highly then? The final movie called Cannon Fodder. It's apparently 20 or so minutes long, but I felt as if time had slowed down during it. I glanced at my watch after I thought it had been 30 minutes and it had only been 10. This movie was dull as dishwater and possibly a crime agaisnt humanity. Instead ... of waterboarding to interrogate terrorists I'd simply put the poor fellow in a room with nothing but Cannon Fodder on loop for a few days.

He'd be begging me to let him go.