Load of rubbish!!

Best movie of this year hands down!

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Blistering performances.

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.

When a heavily armed gang of kidnappers take hostage one of the city's most influential bankers and proceed to kick him repeatedly in the groin until his balls come out of his nose (250 hits apparently being the magic number), tough maverick cop Chuck Steel leaps into action, guns a-blazing.A claymation pastiche of the '80s action genre, director Mike Mort's Raging Balls of Steel Justice is 15 minutes of pure animated excess, packed full of gloriously over-the-top violence and shamelessly unsophisticated humour. But even though the script is undeniably crude, the execution is far from it: Mort's animation is wonderful, with great characters, lovingly detailed models, and oodles of plasticine gore, with impressive use of CGI effects to enhance the action (huge explosions being tough to make out of modelling clay).Admittedly, a couple of the gags don't work as well as they might—the over-sexed police robot getting it on with inanimate objects isn't funny enough to be repeated as often as it is—but overall this is a very enjoyable way to waste a quarter of an hour.7.5/10, rounded up to 8 for Steel's accidental 250th wallop in the banker's bits, which does indeed result in the guys nuts dangling from his nostrils.

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

...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.