Ex-Driver - Crossroads (Vol. 2)
With lots of high-speed car chases, flashy driving maneuvers, and cleavage  shots, this six-part OAV is ideal viewing for adolescent males. All that's  missing are interesting characters and credible stories. In the future,  humans are passive passengers in self-propelled AI cars and trucks. But  when a vehicle goes haywire or gets reprogrammed, the teenage eX-Drivers go  into action. The tension between brash Lisa and half-pint Souichi continues  from the last disc, aggravated by the arrival of motorcyclist-vamp Rei. In  the two-part finale, ex-eX-Driver Joe Todo ("he strayed from the path") and  his gang of punks terrorize the city with their gasoline-powered cars--until  Souichi outsmarts them in a race. Joe sees the light and returns to the path  of virtue--a conversion no more improbable than the rest of the story. (Rated  13 and older, but more appropriate for over 15: brief nudity, profanity, tobacco  use, cartoon violence)--Charles Solomon