Review of Akira

Akira (1988) A great film for its time but one that has just aged badly, it doesn't quite match up with the other greats of its generation. Being around the time I played Cyberpunk 2077 I had high hopes pf this being that sort of film, it was but also wasn't. The story is simple enough to follow with the usual obsession in Japan of it is always children doing these things, never could we have adults doing anything more than a normal job. If adults do the stuff the children do they are always much worse at doing it as you see here. The artis amazing for its time, it just has not aged well. Some things look awesome, I love the style of vehicles, for example, looks so brilliant and unusual.

The sound has been redone on the one I watched giving it the justified depth it needed.

Characters whilst not a huge number kind of don't matter. They exist for the story but I could easily see different characters suddenly dropping in and not changing the story at all.

In the end, it was an epic, maybe back then it was a 10, but now it's an 8. That is kind of a push but then it meets what is needed.