Review of Akira

While the visuals thematically are great, especially considering it's a hand-drawn animation, the plot of the story is just one big fever dream, nothing makes sense, there are no characters you root for, and at any moment the movie just felt... baffling and confusing. Why would such a large government security building have such a small and poorly secured room for Tetsuo? And how did Kaneda just end up holding a laser gun out of nowhere? Tetsuo is almost worth sympathizing for, but just comes across as annoying and brash to his friends who helped him in the exposition. And Kaneda was just trying toohard to kill him for no reason, or for a reason not clearly explained by the film. The music isn't bad, and I understand electronic music wasn't around or barely around when this movie was made, I just prefer something more electronic or synthy, like Daft Punk for something cyberpunk. So sad, really expected more out of this film.