A godsend from 80s!

Rating: 8/10 (16 October 2014)

For a long time it was just mesmerized by 'real' films, last week i saw the animation movie Akira and I am blown away. This film was made in 1988, the year I was born! The first computers existed just a couple of years, there were no cell phones, and there was not even the Internet.
Still, the team behind Akira succeeded to put down one hell of a movie. The cinematography, the colors, the technique and the depth of the images is really well done. It's always interesting how a director has suggested the future. Akira takes place in Neo Tokyo 2019. Katsuhiro Ôtomo has chosen to combine his image of the future with his current time. This delivered an incredibly nice tension between the technical inventions that you come across in the film.
Akira is a godsend from 80s. Enjoy!