I'm speechless.

Rating: 9/10 (15 March 2003)

Ahh, the elusive 10/10 (aka 5/5 or 4 stars etc) given to something typically for being perfect. But what about something flawed at times, but yet so transcendently glorious at other moments that it seems to deserve the 10 as well. If a case can be made for the later (and I do think it can) then the extant corpus of Catullus and AKIRA certainly fall into that category.
This movie was often breathtakingly brilliant and beautiful. It also portrayed it's themes in a sort of muddled vague sense..go figure. At first I thought meaning was lost in the translation. But look at a film like mononoke. Nothing lost there. Anyhow. I was moved. But maybe I'm a sucker for sci-fi.
What.