Review of Redline

TL;DR: Great animation, shit story. Emphasize on the shitty part. Think of watching Redline as getting a handjob, the first 12 minutes right until the main titles is the best part of the service, and right when you think you're about to nut, you don't. From then on, it's just a downhill spiral of typical Japanese anime plot and bullshittery. Sure there are bits and parts where you feel it's getting interesting again, but you don't get any coherent form of build up,suspense and climax that's supposed to be present in a good story. It is only great at one aspect and one aspect only -the art. You'd have to be a prepubescent child to fully enjoy this film, the more you try to analyze and try to understand the setting and plot, the more you'll be questioning if they'd even have one.

It's as if the writer's department in Madhouse Studio decided to make Katsuhito Ishii (lead writer of Redline) inhale fumes made from marinated cow shit and have him write the story while he was hallucinating. The grand finale especially, I cannot describe how crazy it is without going into more details, but a worse plot would be if a mad scientist made all dogs as intelligent as humans, and so a syndicate of evil rich dogs was formed and they controlled all the world's water supply and enslaved humans. One dog who has developed super powers during the mutation process is the key to saving the human race and turning things back to the way they were. On his journey he met a love interest and he realized that in order to save mankind he would have to risk losing her. In the end he decided to forgo his selfish needs for the salvation of mankind, and so everyone lived happily ever after.

Anyway, Redline it started out really strong, but 98% of the enjoyment I had was from the first 12 minutes of the show. My suggestion? You should go watch some other movie right after that to satiate your need for a "happy ending". Don't make the same mistake everyone here did, you'll only end up with blue balls. Trust me.