One of the best animated movies ever

Rating: 10/10 (17 October 2004)

this movie is probably one of the best animated movies ever, took the genre to the next level. the is one thing to keep in mind, this is an adaption of a comic book series with a detailed and complex storyline. if you watch it not knowing the comic book series you will for sure scratching your head. as an adaption the movie makers simply decided not to take too much effort making the movie enjoyable to newcomers of the story, if they would have, I think they would not have been able to make it the movie it is. the comic book is drifting in the second half of the series to much into details that blur the main issues in the story, the movie did great in putting back into focus what this all about: gang wars, arrogant technological advance not in check, political intrigues and power games, the need of people in a overcrowded super-city for something to hold on and seeking it in fanatical religious groups and so much more captured very good in a way you could compare with blade runner, but, the main theme being the friendship and growing up of kaneda and tetsuo, I cant remember a relationship of this kind being portrait so brilliantly as in this movie. try to get into this story reading at least the first half the comic books so you are familiar with the neo-Tokyo world and then lean back and enjoy one of the best scifi movies of all times!