"Though it may just seem like one big geek show gross out, Tetsuo: The Iron Man is actually a movie about revenge. It's about man's revenge against man, technology's revenge against humans, nature's revenge against technology and the neverending revenge between elements of karma and the primal forces of the universe. It's a sick, cyclical meditation on physicality, mixing imagery both derivative and disgusting. It plays tricks with cinematic convention, drops narrative in favor of nastiness, and always manages to make sense, even if it is in its own obtuse, offensive way. It's part comic book, part alien autopsy, and all visual violence, laced with enough wicked cinematic style to make other wannabe cyberpunks pale in comparison." - Bill Gibron, DVDTalk