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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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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! January 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] June 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. July 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
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. July 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. April 10, 2013 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Pounding away, it becomes monotonous.
Dave Kehr
[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. April 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. March 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. January 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
Plenty of superb recent blockbusters, including The Matrix, The Dark Knight, Minority Report, Dark City and Inception, are all in its debt - not to mention a fair number of shockers, like Star Wars Episode II and the most recent Resident Evil atrocity. June 25, 2011 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Plenty of superb recent blockbusters, including The Matrix, The Dark Knight, Minority Report, Dark City and Inception, are all in its debt - not to mention a fair number of shockers, like Star Wars Episode II and the most recent Resident Evil atrocity.
Robbie Collin
Put it up there with the most astonishing animated features ever made. June 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. June 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 cityscapes are awesome, the camerawork is dizzying. If you're new to manga, prepare to be converted. June 23, 2011 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The cityscapes are awesome, the camerawork is dizzying. If you're new to manga, prepare to be converted.
David Parkinson
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