zogarreal

Venus Wars focuses on a group of motorcycle racers caught up in a war on Venus in the future. The protagonist Hiro sees through the hypocrisy of the war machine and is forced into fighting to survive. The premise is pretty good and the animation is excellent for 80s anime but in the third act the movie falls down with a ridiculous homophobic cliche. A soldier that is gay is portrayed as a lazy, sexual predator, pasafist who dies in an explosion before refusing to fight. To add insult to injury the huge tank he's on crashes into another named "MARY". A pity this anti-gay trash ruined a good anime.