First off,the iconic robot only appear few minutes in the entire movie near the end. So the whole movie is about bunch of cheesy over the top Japanese TV actors trying to mimic the character that is more alive in the comic/anime, ironic wasn't it? Sadly, this formula has been repeated countless times in comic/anime adaptation of live movie in Japan, IT JUST DOESN'T WORKS~~! Stop asking actor to react cheesy and make expression like a scene out of a cartoon... in real life you get smack for behaving like a fool. The plot of the movie is a series of Japanese live action science fiction films part of the Patlabor franchise. It is divided into 13 episodes separated into 7 parts mini series released as a final film in May 2015.