M.D. Geist (1986)

Like A Clockwork Orange, this anime asked the question, "Is it really your fault if the government engineered you into a killing machine? Are you really responsible if you are just following your programming?" Giest is a super soldier engineered by the government to kill. His only purpose for existing is to kill.SPOILER: Skip the rest of this review if you don't want to be spoiled.It's so sad, because at the end, when he about to was releasing all those robots to kill off humanity, the girl asked him what he was doing, and the camera zoomed in onto his eyes, and you, the audience, can see the sadness in his eyes. At this point, you begin understand that he does not want to do what he was programmed to do. He was programmed to kill, and kill he must. He can't stop it.Turned into a series, M.D. Giest would turn into a cult classic like Ghost in the Shell, while dealing with important questions about human nature.

Sure I have seen better anime in my day, but this is a lot better than what they are trying to pass off as "good" in modern time. To say that Arnold Schwarzenegger fans would appreciate this movie is a very fair statement. If you like simple story plots, explosions, violence, and straight up destruction, then look no further!Call me a "purist," but yes you will want to see it with the original sound track and Japanese voices - the English dub does indeed suck! It won't kill you to read a little! Insult me all you want for having a different taste in anime, but some of us just aren't into this modern day TV friendly, boring as crap stuff that they try to pass off as anime.

First, I laugh at the critics who say this great anime had little character development, senseless violence, bad dubbing and sound. M.D Geist is not that, is a fantastic , war anime in space, that's actually very realistic. Also I saw that the Uncut Japanese, English subtitled version, not the crappy dubbed version these idiots watched. lolThe plot, and it's a great one is the Geist is part of space soldier team. They have a great war against an enemy and Geist is one the few men still alive. His platoon though deserts him, and leaves him for dead.If the plot sounds familiar, its exactly like "Soldier" with Kurt Russell in animated form.Geists though, only on brawn and brains survives and destroys everything in his path. Well not everything, he does come to a city invaded by a bunch of deadly gangs (like in Fist of the North Star) and eventually he wipes them out too...Geists platoon eventually find out that he's still alive and want to use him, check that abuse him.Geist has other plans , and what results in a hour of the best hand drawn action anime you've seen.The other critics don't know what they're talking about, so check it out.I know great anime (Macross DYRL, Gundam Wing) and M.D. Geist is great.

This movie is great, it has cool animation and battle scenes. It also doesn't mind showing how people can think more of something than it really is. MD Geist is a killing machine, that's all he is, yet you find yourself rooting for him. When all is said and done though, he's here to kill and that's all. If you can't accept that you can't accept this really downbeat movie.