[Serious] This may be unpopular, but I feel the first half of Akira is more interesting than the second half.

Akira is a film that is well concieved and well produced throughout. However, I feel like the story that the film starts on: that of a futuristic motorcycle gang in a troubled society, introduced a compelling element that never really goes anywhere in the film. We're introduced to a future society, struggling in many ways, with both youths and adults reacting to their world in rebellious and interesting methods... and then this element just gets abandoned entirely. We don't learn what direction their society goes in. We don't learn what relevance Akira even had to this society.

As the story progresses, we move from this interesting and very human story to one that becomes incredibly fantastic, and one that doesn't even seem to care about the society we're told it happens within. We never really get any resolution of all the hanging questions left about these youths or their society as a whole, as the plot is basically hijacked so we can watch psychic supermutant combat.

Personally, I think I would really have enjoyed seeing things play out without the body horror, political intrigue, and DBZ-esque superhuman battles.

What do you think?

Submitted April 16, 2016 at 06:45PM by CoffeeFox http://ift.tt/1ShAFfK