The best animated film ever!!

Rating: 10/10 (5 October 2005)

Akira is one of the milestones in film-history. Its a dark vision of our techno-future and portrays the decadent society of neo-tokyo. It was the first animated movie that was so thrilling, so extravagant, so sublime in its animation that it became an unique movie experience. Although the end of the film is pushing it a bit too much it still remains a "Gesamtkunstwerk". It set the standard for all following anime and contains revolutionary CGI. Its a rough and raw movie with a lot of violence and disturbing images but the film doesn't exploit that. I still think that the motorbike-scene at the beginning is one of the most brilliant action scenes ever.