Lugodoc It's every 80s action film condensed into 15 minutes of non-stop violent claymation, executed with great care and tremendous technical skill. Beautifully sculpted clay models, stop-motion animated, are enhanced with CGI explosions, the whole thing directed and edited like a really good action film. Some bits look almost real.English humourist Miles Kington once said that for a parody to work the parodist had to truly love his subject, and Mike Mort must love those old 80s action movies to create this. It made me laugh with every single frame. It's fast, dense, clever and painstakingly well done, and unlike maverick cop-on-the-edge Chuck Steel it plays by ALL the rules.

Horst in Translation ([email protected]) This is a 14-minute short film from 2 years ago and it's actually animated, even if this genre is not listed here om IMDb for this little film. BAFTA Award-nominee Mike Mort not only wrote and directed this, he also voiced all the characters. I have to say I liked the animation. The characters were kinda fun to watch, but I cannot really say the story was on par. A cop arrives at a warehouse to free a hostage and in the process of doing so, he kills all the bad guys and finally blows up the whole building. The horny robot was fun and the guy constantly kicking the hostage in the balls was as well. Unfortunately, at some point, it gets pretty repetitive. I guess Mort should have kept the film under the 10-minute mark as, apart from the ending outside, there is nothing really new happening during the entire second half of the film. A bit underwhelming after a good start. Also the lone rider cop aspect could have been emphasized a bit more with funny references other than him shooting the robot near the end. Not recommended.

grumpy-3 saw this on film four, and what a treat it was, a tribute and loving pastiche of 80s action movies, the animation is great, the gags come thick and fast, the amazing detail in all departments is wonderful to behold. Even down to the original soundtrack, the writer/director Mike Mort created one of my favourite short TV episodes of a neanderthal family, The Gogs. I very much share his humour, which has been described as schoolboy, but then who wants to grow up. it is also refreshing to see that someone still takes the huge amount of time and care doing stop motion to this level, and who can also deliver on the script and production side. A film to savour many times

Leofwine_draca ...So it's a shame that the rest of this short is such a letdown. RAGING BALLS OF STEEL JUSTICE was conceived as a claymation tribute to the action films of the 1980s, movies which inevitably featured a square-jawed hero committing ultra-violence against terrorist gang members and the like.Mike Mort's job is to play out an action-packed siege scenario in just 15 minutes of screen time, and to be fair he achieves that aim. The animation is very good, and there's a pleasing adult tone to the grisly violence in which various bad guys are inevitably blown to smithereens.A shame, then, that the script seems to have been written by a scatologically-obsessed 14-year-old boy. The constant humour is weak and wearying, such as the sex-obsessed robot (no, I didn't laugh once) and the over-the-top ridiculousness of other bits. Lee Hardcastle's Youtube shorts (such as the exemplary PINGU'S THE THING) are much, much better.