Bold, Ambitious, Timeless, One of a Kind

Rating: 9/10 (6 July 2019)

As generic as it may sound: This movie is really each and every word that is present in my review's title. After hearing much about it, I was finally given the chance to legally watch it on Hulu. Besides the obvious cultural impact this film has had, it is filled with fantastic shots depicting a dystopian, decaying city on the verge of collapsing. Beautifully created cityscapes, slums and streets that are overflowing with unique and diverse characters all help to create a unique environment throughout the runtime of this movie. This movie does one of the best jobs I have seen as of yet to blend it's underlying concepts of religious zealism, spirituality, coming-of-age fiction, scientific exploration and even corrupt political conflicts within a military focused nation all into one package. The story itself surreal at times and other times so grounded in reality that I can easily picture aspects of this story being based on real life events. Overall the only complaint I could give was that the dub was noticeably lacking and sometimes was CD-I Zelda bad. Since that was the version I saw, it was an 8 so, all things equal of course: the sub would be considered a 9.