Patlabor 2 (1993)
If you, like a lot of people, would go into this movie expecting a smorgasbord of giant robots kicking the mechanical snot out of each other, then you would be better off looking in a different direction. In fact, 'Patlabor 2' is a lot more akin to a political thriller of sorts, with plenty of very serious and grounded dialogue, long takes of people contemplating their next move and of course quite a lot of modern day politics and everything that entails. Not exactly the easiest material to get into, rest assured. After a prologue, during which a Japanese piloted Labor (one of the big robots used for either manual labour - hence the name - or the military) gets destroyed during a conflict, it is clear the pilot that survives is none too happy with a decision that led to his squad being decimated. Fast forward a few years and about three years after the events of the first film, and the mobile police force is all but out of commission. Things get warped when a sudden bombing...
