Akira
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Movie Reviews of Akira
Movie Review: Teenage Wasteland At The End of the World
Summary: 5 Stars
Bullet train-sleek and laser pencil-precise, Katsuhiro Otomo's "Akira" is an achievement horny for Japanese-brand psychic Armaggedon and infrastructural distress. It's ground-breaking, literally and otherwise. The locus of "Akira" is a geek. A gangsta runt named Tetsuo, who goes from put-upon underdog to malignant paranormal, and precipitates the destruction of Neo-Tokyo. "Akira" is, if anything, the penultimate Revenge of the Nerd. "Voltes V" it ain't. The movie preserves the spine of Otomo's graphic novel but not its breadth. It's a cramped mainframe, sometimes fragmenting into incoherence. But "Akira" mainly traffics in headrush viscera , gut-blowing ultraviolence, high-carb forward motion and the opera of annihilation-and-renewal cycles cranked up to 11. When its concerns run to the visual, "Akira" is a cruise missile. Few animes, few movies, even, have brushed its heady template of hyperimaginative techno-chaos. Even after eleven years, it absolutely bristles with Mach One visionary momentum. Not bad for an old movie.Movie Review: Akira is AWESOME
Summary: 5 Stars
I think that Akira is one of the best Anime movies ever made. It is the only Anime to do well in the theatres, and it does a good job of summing up most of the Manga. The Manga is over 2200 pages and 38 books. The movie is the middle of the Manga with about 12-15 books ahead of it and another 12-15 behind it. It is also was one of the first Anime movie to use computer generated effects. It's no JP but it has an incredible amount of CGE for a cartoon. A well orchestrated soundtrack (which I own) is used throughout the movie, and goes together very nicely with the scenes in which it is used. Although the movie is called Akira, Akira himself only shows up in last part of the movie (the little kid in the white light) to come and take the Espers (those blue kids and the kids in the "Dream Sequence") away. Although it's confusing sometimes (read the Manga) Akira is an incredibly intense Anime and a must have (I'd love to own all three versions) for any serious collector or anyone who like cool movies.Movie Review: ONE STAR! ARE YOU INSANE!
Summary: 5 Stars
Akira is one of my all time favorite favorite movies. The cold ultra-violent world set a mood I couldn't shake for hours. The scenes are directed to perfection, squeezing the absolute most shock potential. I saw it when I was 11 and many of the scenes were grafted into my mind in my mind. Like the scene where Tetsuo's guts spill out and he franticlly trys to gather them up and put them back in. The story maybe hard to comprehend but why concentrate on trying to figure out the story. All you need to know is that Akira was a boy who blew up Tokyo because of his power and now Tetsuo has it. The government faction that keeps popping up is trying to prevent that. Its simple. This movie gloomy, ultra-violent, techno-thriller with picture perfect images that you will rewind back to and watch in slow-mo.A+Movie Review: AKIRA, a dynamic criteria of superior hand-made anime
Summary: 5 Stars
I remember seeing this movie over a friend's house and I was blown away. Considering the technology in 89 (which was next to nothing), AKIRA broke the conventional boundaries of regular, time restrained Japanese Anime. There is infinate detail on every cell from: facial expressions, dynamics on how machines move, crash scenes, duels, motorcycle races, and supernatural ebbs that make this movie a phenomenon. I still prefer this movie over Ghost in the Shell (and I own the DVD and regular VHS version of GITS).If you really enjoy home theater and get into special effects and appreciate well drawn art with a major cluster of action with ultra-clear sound, this movie excels in all these areas! Oh yes, and this is a movie - not a cheesy 30 minute episode!
Movie Review: The best anime film made past, present, and future
Summary: 5 Stars
I rented this movie back when it had first arrived in America in 1993, and boy was it a great choice! this was my first anime, and it blew me away! from the breakneck-paced motorcycle fight in the first minutes of the movie to the final showdown(s?), you will be on the edge of your seat. The movie's action was accompanied by stunning visuals, and Otomo(the movie's creator) didn't neglect the story, either, giving the viewer both the good, the bad, and the ugly of neo-tokyo, from the politicking councilmen to the rebellious students, to the movie's anti-villian, Tetsuo. You will not regret having seen this movie, and if its your first japanimation experience, you will be spoiled for only the best of the anime world. buy this movie, it is a DOOZY!