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Akira is strikingly bloody and violent, but its phenomenal animation and sheer kinetic energy helped set the standard for modern anime.
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While its typically convoluted sci-fi plotting and sprawling ensemble of characters occasionally lead it to border on the incoherent, it's hard not to be in awe of the giant hand-drawn cityscapes that make up the backdrop for the eye-popping action. Jul 18, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
While its typically convoluted sci-fi plotting and sprawling ensemble of characters occasionally lead it to border on the incoherent, it's hard not to be in awe of the giant hand-drawn cityscapes that make up the backdrop for the eye-popping action.
David Jenkins
Pounding away, it becomes monotonous. Apr 10, 2013 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Pounding away, it becomes monotonous.
Dave Kehr
Put it up there with the most astonishing animated features ever made. Jun 24, 2011 | Rating: 4/5
Put it up there with the most astonishing animated features ever made.
Derek Malcolm
Style and substance run neck and neck in this thrilling, bold landmark film that just refuses to become dated. Jun 23, 2011 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Style and substance run neck and neck in this thrilling, bold landmark film that just refuses to become dated.
Phelim O'Neill
The movie, even at 124 minutes, has the densely packed sweep and go-for-it pep of a pop epic. Sep 7, 2008 | Full Review…
The movie, even at 124 minutes, has the densely packed sweep and go-for-it pep of a pop epic.
Jay Cocks
Grade-school violence freaks may find a few kicks here, but even they may have trouble coping with this ugly movie's ending about eight separate times. Apr 16, 2007 | Full Review…
Grade-school violence freaks may find a few kicks here, but even they may have trouble coping with this ugly movie's ending about eight separate times.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
It's dark and violent but, because it is so creative, it is a really fun experience. It's like Inception but way more trippy! Jan 19, 2019 | Rating: 9.5/10 | Full Review…
It's dark and violent but, because it is so creative, it is a really fun experience. It's like Inception but way more trippy!
Rachel Wagner
It continues to show the best of the genre, almost 30 years later. It would be sacrilegious to give a different rating from PERFECT to AKIRA. [Full review in Spanish] Jun 20, 2017 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
It continues to show the best of the genre, almost 30 years later. It would be sacrilegious to give a different rating from PERFECT to AKIRA. [Full review in Spanish]
Julio Vélez
Handsome and preposterously ambitious, and even its worst narrative missteps are a factor of that ambition. Jul 4, 2015 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
Handsome and preposterously ambitious, and even its worst narrative missteps are a factor of that ambition.
Tim Brayton
[Akira] is a blast and a half, a twisted dystopian parable of violence and rock and roll, Japanese-style. It's Disney on PCP, mean, rotten, psychotic, but incredibly vivid. Apr 10, 2013 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
[Akira] is a blast and a half, a twisted dystopian parable of violence and rock and roll, Japanese-style. It's Disney on PCP, mean, rotten, psychotic, but incredibly vivid.
Stephen Hunter
Extremely violent classic introduced anime to Westerners. Mar 15, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Extremely violent classic introduced anime to Westerners.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Moments that can only be captured as animation make Akira still worth watching: gusts of wind from chopper blades, ka-tooming bursts of fiery explosions, Tetsuo's visions. Jan 12, 2012 | Full Review…
Moments that can only be captured as animation make Akira still worth watching: gusts of wind from chopper blades, ka-tooming bursts of fiery explosions, Tetsuo's visions.
Brian Gibson
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