Great atmosphere but narrated badly

Rating: 8/10 (9 October 2004)

This is a great movie, the atmosphere is great, like cyberpunk should be, very good animated. This also is the movie that shows best how it feels to be sick, real sick (Tetsuo is).
So from this I would give a 10, but there are two disturbing things: You can't hardly understand that story. And that's not because of the story (although it might be complicated), but mostly because of very weak dialogues. Very annoying. Is that typically Japanese? I don't think so... And then there's this overdone ending with Tetsuo blowing up which is not my personal taste.
But anyway, cool movie. I gave a 8.