Gibb
05-13-02, 02:02 PM
Story: 8/10
Ominae Yu is an elite soldier. He has been trained since birth to be an elite killing machine. After an incident in his school he heads off to find out about a recovery project of an ancient artifact. Things go terribly wrong and he has to fight for his life against others like himself. The story is very awesome except i felt it needed to go deeper into some parts. The story is about as weird and twisted as Akira (as well it should be, was directed by the same guy i believe). Probably the coolest thing about the story is that the bad guy has good reasons for wanting what he wants. So often in movies bad guys are just bad guys, evil since birth who just want to blow up the world for S&G.
Animation: 9/10
The animation in this movie is just incredible. Very fluid character movements and awesome backgrounds.
Sound/Music: 9/10
Sound effects are just awesome and the music really fits the mood of the movie. I watched it in subtitled and went back and sampled parts of it with dubbing. As far as dubbing goes it seems alright but it's just no comparison to the japanese track. Also it seems the dubbed voice track is much lower volume than the japanese one. It's hard to hear what they say at times with the dubbed track.
Extras: 6/10
This is what i would call going overboard. There are some nifty extras, some line arts sketches of the characters, vehicles, guns and such in the series. However you cannot simply scroll through em. When you choose to view the Character line art it shows this 15 second opening video and plays the Spriggan opening song, then it starts showing the line arts images as part of the video. You cant press arrows to go to the next picture or go backwards. You have to sit there watching and waiting for hte next one, unless you fast forward through em like a vcr. Then if you go to watch the weapons line art it shows that 15 second video and plays the song again. Its rather overdone.
Overall: 9/10
Awesome movie, go rent/buy it now.
http://ryan.slackercentral.com/anime/spriggan1.jpg
http://ryan.slackercentral.com/anime/spriggan2.jpg
Ominae Yu is an elite soldier. He has been trained since birth to be an elite killing machine. After an incident in his school he heads off to find out about a recovery project of an ancient artifact. Things go terribly wrong and he has to fight for his life against others like himself. The story is very awesome except i felt it needed to go deeper into some parts. The story is about as weird and twisted as Akira (as well it should be, was directed by the same guy i believe). Probably the coolest thing about the story is that the bad guy has good reasons for wanting what he wants. So often in movies bad guys are just bad guys, evil since birth who just want to blow up the world for S&G.
Animation: 9/10
The animation in this movie is just incredible. Very fluid character movements and awesome backgrounds.
Sound/Music: 9/10
Sound effects are just awesome and the music really fits the mood of the movie. I watched it in subtitled and went back and sampled parts of it with dubbing. As far as dubbing goes it seems alright but it's just no comparison to the japanese track. Also it seems the dubbed voice track is much lower volume than the japanese one. It's hard to hear what they say at times with the dubbed track.
Extras: 6/10
This is what i would call going overboard. There are some nifty extras, some line arts sketches of the characters, vehicles, guns and such in the series. However you cannot simply scroll through em. When you choose to view the Character line art it shows this 15 second opening video and plays the Spriggan opening song, then it starts showing the line arts images as part of the video. You cant press arrows to go to the next picture or go backwards. You have to sit there watching and waiting for hte next one, unless you fast forward through em like a vcr. Then if you go to watch the weapons line art it shows that 15 second video and plays the song again. Its rather overdone.
Overall: 9/10
Awesome movie, go rent/buy it now.
http://ryan.slackercentral.com/anime/spriggan1.jpg
http://ryan.slackercentral.com/anime/spriggan2.jpg