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Burn Up...

Sometime ago, I picked up the VHS version of Burn Up...
Maki, Reimi, Yuka. To the unsuspecting eye they may not look like an ace crime fighting team, which might explain why these lovely young ladies have been assigned to the traffic squad instead of something more "exciting". Of course, the fact that they're NOT an ace crime fighting team might have something to do with it as well. That doesn't mean they don't have the ambition, however, so when Maki's boyfriend Kenji and his partner Banba get the assignment of proving that influential businessman Samuel McCoy is actually the head of a white slavery ring, our three heroines decide to launch a private investigation, using their own luscious bodies as bait while they troll for clues among the city's sinister labyrinth of discotheques. Unfortunately, the plan backfires and poor Yuka ends up on the "Market" herself! With the rest of the police department paralyzed by conflicting orders from "higher up", Reimi and Maki launch a two-woman commando raid against the villain's heavily fortified estate in a desperate attempt to rescue their partner. Dressed in skin tight body armor and packing enough firepower to level an entire city, Maki and Reimi are going to insure a hot time on the old town tonight, and the only way the bad guys are going to escape will be to jump out of the pan and into the fire!
When a cop is abducted by a white slavery ring, her partners decide to do something about it. This is one AD Vision's early releases and contains many of the elements that drew anime fans like myself to their releases -- girls, tight costumes, and big guns. Burn Up is reasonably paced, has a bit of humor, a tiny bit of skin, and an awesome battle sequence. This is one of those titles that I pull of the shelf every once in a while when I'm in the mood for something fun to watch. I used to have the subtitled VHS version. I enjoyed Burn Up enough that I repurchased it on DVD. I gave Burn Up a 4 out of 5.