Summary: >

Maki, Remi and Yuka are three girls on the police force who are about to encounter their most dangerous job yet. Sam McCoy is well known to be be involved trading slave girls, but the police have never been able pin anything on him. That's when the three get involved in a sting operation at one of McCoy's night clubs. Yuka ends up getting kidnapped and time for her is running out once they discover she's a cop. Maki and Remi decide that waiting for authorization isn't going to cut it and that the only solution is to assault McCoy's compound. Can two girls really take on an army of thugs? Given enough weapons... maybe.

Thoughts: >

I watched Burn Up a long time ago but couldn't recall much about it aside from being unimpressed. Watching it again I now remember why I didn't recall very much: it's because hardly anything happens. Burn Up is an old school action anime that kinda forgot the story. It starts with a car chase, slides into the setup for taking on crime boss McCoy, and ends with a shoot out at his mansion. You'd think I was glossing over details or hiding something, but that's really all Burn Up consisted of. At the end I was a bit confused thinking to myself, "wait, that's it?".

Thinking of other reasons you may want to watch this doesn't yield many results. The animation was well done, but unfortunately isn't utilized well since there isn't a whole lot that happens. About the only feature I would name as being good, was the mostly hard rock soundtrack which is kinda cool in trying to fit into the action movie mold. The dub was an early ADV effort and not very good.

In summary, Burn Up is totally worth skipping. It's as if it had been taken from the middle of a bigger movie, but no one remembered to fill in the beginning and ending parts. It's a bit hard to believe a title this managed to launch a franchise. I guess the idea behind Burn Up is "girls with guns" but seriously, there needs to be a point to it.