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WXIII: Patlabor The Movie 3(WXIII 機動警察パトレイバー)

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Japan · 2002
Rated R · 1h 47m
Director Fumihiko Takayama
Starring Hiroaki Hirata, Katsuhiko Watabiki, Atsuko Tanaka, Ryusuke Ohbayashi
Genre Action, Animation, Science Fiction, Thriller

Set in the year 2000 (between the events of Patlabor and Patlabor 2), when the level of Labor accidents begin to escalate around Tokyo Bay, police detectives Kusumi and Hata are assigned to investigate. What they discover leads to a series of government cover-ups, conspiracy concerning a new biological weapon entitled WXIII-Wasted Thirteen and a tragic, personal connection to Hata. The only hope to stop this threat is to cooperate with the military and lead WXIII into a showdown with the Labors of Special Vehicle Division 2.

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L.A. Weekly by Dan Fienberg

The two encounters with the beast WXIII -- first in a darkened factory, and later in an empty stadium, to the strains of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in G Minor (Pathétique) -- elevate the disappointingly flat animation into a vivid fable of monster and morality.

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New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

The full title of this animé import is WXIII (Patlabor the Movie 3), and if you think the name's confusing, you may want to spare yourself the work of figuring out the film itself.

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Chicago Reader by J.R. Jones

The romantic denouement is so predictable it must have driven the animators mad as they worked, but their modest art is eerily effective.

40

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

The route to the film's dramatic and poignant climax is so hard to follow that the pleasure, the potential for which is considerable, has been substantially diminished.

60

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

The backgrounds are handsome and moody, and the character animation is less distractingly cartoonish than that of films like the otherwise breathtaking Metropolis (2001).

50

Village Voice by Mark Holcomb

A competent if overlong blend of policier, sci-fi conspiracy thriller, daikaiju eiga (giant monster) stompfest, and tragic romance. It's also anime (short for "cheaper than live-action").

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The A.V. Club by Tasha Robinson

Where the too-rarefied style and the too-simple substance meet, a compromise is reached, and something uniquely haunting is formed.

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