Awesome, brilliant, and wonderfully crafted.

Rating: 10/10 (26 July 2001)

I'm not a big anime fan, but I have to say that this movie rocks! I went out and bought the new DVD yesterday because it looked very promising and I always wanted to see it. To put it mildly, it certainly went beyond my expectations. I was thinking this was a Star Wars type of flick and it turned out to be thought-provoking, long, and extremely serious. The violence isn't that bad. I don't know what everyone is thinking. Sure, it has its share of graphic content, but it's really nothing more than you get from a Schwarzenegger movie. My only gripe about this film though is that they tried to put too much into 2 hours of film. We get a little too much stuff going on. But hey, who really cares???
10/10