?Androids can?t behave irrationally.  It just doesn?t make any sense.?  Yet somehow, they did, and it was sooooo sweet.

The Madness got ratcheted up a notch last night with our screening of Sori?s Anime odyssey, Vexille.

This may have been the most tame of our programme in terms of gore, guts and creep factor- but it is the early odds-on favourite for the loudest film we?re going to show.  Colin said during the intro that this was a film he saw at Cannes and his biggest beef with it there that it needed to be bigger and louder.

Mission accomplished.

Sori?s exquisite images of a futuristic Japan populated almost exclusively by clones had some truly great action sequences and the characters just leapt off the screen.  Although one of the main action sequences was pretty much nicked directly from Star Wars, that didn?t cut the tension or stop the action- which started in the first five minutes and didn?t stop till the credits started rolling.

However, if you need one good reason to catch our next two Vexille screenings (Tuesday at noon, Scotiabank 14; Saturday at 11:30 p.m., Varsity 6) it?s easily the score.  Done by electronica god Paul Oakenfold, it amps the action up to manic levels.  At turns pumping and melodic, Oakenfold was able to write interesting and diverse pieces for each new sequence, whether it be driving acoustic guitars for a chase through the Tokyo suburbs or pounding rhythms for the film?s crucial action sequence through an off-shore tunnel.  Big sound really brings the brilliant score to life, so music fans should give it a look for the score alone.

Sadly, Sori couldn?t make it out last night, so there?s no audio or visual treats today, but look into that score.  You?ll be glad you did!