"Wake me up when this is OVER"

Rating: Null/10 (7 March 2002)

Okay, I don't mind some films with blood and gore, nor I don't mind some nudity here or there, but at least it should have a co-hesive plot. Unfortunatly, Akira has NONE of that. Akira is basicly the "Monster a Go-go" of anime!
Even though Otomo has done some creative things (Memories, Robot Carnival), he did not do so well here.
Were to start.....Hmmmmmmm..... It's about some weird wacko named Tetsuo and his insanity getting worse when he hears about something or another called AKIRA. Meanwhille, some other punk kids and espers (who look like badly deformed "Garbage Pail Kids") try to stop his orgy of madness, but things just get worse.
I do have to admit, Akira does have EXCELLENT animation (the characters don't look like bug-eyed freaks), but the plot keeps going around in circles that it makes you think that three or four animated movies went into the making of this.
-Like what is up with the dream sequence of the Teddy bear and the car/milk bottle thing?
-Now why did suddenly Tetsuo became a monster?
-What was the point of the scene where dogs and children get shot down?
-What is the point of that computer animated blob thing?
-Does anyone know? ANYONE?
OH FORGET IT! I all thank my cousin for showing me this big-budgit dung heap known as "Akira"!