DUM!! DUM!!

Rating: Null/10 (22 November 2002)

Dateline, 1988: A young boy with incredible powers name "Akira" destroys the world because everyone in the first Enlish dub pronoucnes his name wrong. From doing this, he dies and the always clever people of Japan freeze dry the kid's organs to preserve death and destruction for future genrations. Later, after a 33 year rebuild a young biker stumbles upon this situation while cruising Neo-Tokyo on motorcycles and hiting clowns with pipes. After being jetted off to a high-tech hospitol with an escort of milirary helecopter the street tough develops Incredible mental powers for no reason whatsover. A Cornal who controlls the entire military (Must be a small miliratry) attemps to stop the boy with Tanks, helicopter gunships and orbital cannons.. .when those fail he goes after the kid with a pistol. . .this is what you get when you leave a cornal in charge. In the end things wrap up predictably, the kid becomes so powerful that he has to be taken into another universe. . .in the process smashing his poor girlfreind and once agian ending the world. In the end, the heros survive, the credits roll over a laser-light show from another dimention, and the Japanse make a new years resolotion to stop ending the world.
What's my verdict? this move was entertaining. . .but I don't really know why! I could lie and say it was "Thrilling, engrosing, had likable realistic charaters" but it really didn't have those things. . .it just had alot of stuff crammed together with a storyline too deep for Stephen Hawkings to follow. Some movies are meat and poetatoes, some are more like cake and ice cream. This movie is somthing like a bag of pork rinds, it's not a meal. . .it's not a snack, but it fills you up and you really don't know why.
Do I recomend Akira? I guess, Do I know why? Heck no.