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During a shootout with organ-thief Mizugochi (Goro KLishitani) &
his goons on the dockside, Miyamoto (Takeshi Kaneshiro) accidently
wounds young Milly (Ann Suzuki), &, out of pity, decides to take
care of her. When she later tells him she's from the future though,
& has come back to kill Daggra, an alien, that, within days, will
start a war humans vs. aliens, with the humans, at least in her original
time - losing big-time, Miyamoto throws her out. Only by attaching a
miniature bomb to his neck can she force him to cooperate. Meanwhile, at
the National Institute of Space Science (NIOS), an alien who came to
earth just recently, is actually kept, & Mizugochi, learning about
the alien's spaceship's possibility as a weapon, will do anything to get
it. A massive shoot-out at NIOS between Miyamoto & Milly on one,
Mizugochi & his goons on the other side follows, with Mizugochi
indeed gettuing the alien & the spaceship, & Milly &
Miyamoto only learning that maybe the humans have started the war
against the aliens after all by cruelly mistreating this one. So now the
2 of them will do anything to free the alien - which Mizugochi has
hidden on an oil rig - & return it to its own race. After another
massive shoot-out they succeed of course, Miyamoto even settles some old
scores with Mizugochi - who once killed his best friend -, the alien is
returned & earth is saved. Milly though, is pulled back into her own
time. She does return though - in secret - to save Miyamoto life after
having learned he was to be assassinated by a kid he once wounded in a
shoot-out. The plot of Returner steals way too
obviously from Terminator to really provide much interest, while
in style it looks more like a manga or anime come to (real) life, with
many sequences or even single shots showing exactly that origin. The
alien though looks & even talks ("I want to go home !")
suspiciously like that bitterweet one from that children's movie E.T.
- which doesn't fit all that well into this quite bloody sci-fi action
movie. & despite all the efforts that were put into the action and
the computer generated effects - or actually because of that - a very
minor, at best mediocre movie.
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