Should you watch Patlabor: The Movie?
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Patlabor: The Movie
Anime · 1989
A mysterious suicide and a series of unmanned robot run-aways sparks off a Police investigation into the suspicious software on-board thousands of industrial robots around Tokyo.
The sides of Patlabor: The Movie
- Police officers who pilot robots
- A computer virus hidden in Tokyo's labor robots
- A programmer's death at the very start
Patlabor: The Movie is good for you if…
- you like a police investigation that follows a dead man's code.
- you like robots treated as real machines with real software.
- you like long views of a Tokyo being torn down and rebuilt.
Patlabor: The Movie is bad for you if…
- you don't watch anime.
- you need robot fights, and this is mostly a slow investigation.
About: technology · the city · responsibility
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