Kinda slow at first...but it really gets going.

Rating: 8/10 (8 October 2002)

Saw this on sci-fi channel so I have no idea how much was cut out. What I saw though was pretty cool. It is a bit slow at first, but once a dream sequence starts up it gets moving pretty fast. The story is about a group of bikers, one of them takes a spill thanks to a mysterious boy in the middle of the road and the army takes the dude who had the spill and does experiments on him. These experiments end up giving him telekinetic powers...powers that were apparently given to another named Akira. Well the guy ends up going berserk and using his powers to destroy the city, looking for the one called Akira. Meanwhile his old friend joins some rebel group in the hopes of finding his friend. The rebel group opposes the Akira experiments. After awhile the two friends have a cool duel. Parts are hard to follow, but all in all it is a cool movie and trust me nothing I wrote will spoil it for you. This is a very brief summary of the plot.