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Jin-Rô (1999)
Beautiful, ...but it's a long trip
After seeing this in the stores for a couple months and wondering if it was worth the $$$ i came to find out a friend of mine had bought it so he invited me over to check it out. Man am i ever glad he did because i would have been disappointed had i dropped the cash for it!!!
Jin-Roh is by no means a bad movie in fact it's quite good IF you have the patience it requires. After the opening riot scene things slow down ALOT. It's like 3/4 of the movie is spent building the movie up but it never really delivers in the end. I remember thinking "all that time for THIS ending?!"
As far as the animation, it is top notch. There is definetly an epic feel at work. Sound is also superb.
I think if maybe there had been a bit more action in the middle of this show it would have gone a long way in making this a bit more interesting.
Killer start and then a long middle and finally a pretty unsatisfying ending added up to something i wasn't thrilled about seeing save maybe for the art it'self.
I am pleased to see anime producing more mature adult titles. I am sick of mechs, dbz, and f#*king tentacles. For a welcome change from the above mentioned crap check Jin-Roh out(hey this review was just my opinion, you may love it) or better yet go pick up the far superior Perfect Blue
Pâfekuto burû (1997)
Nothing short of amazing!!!!
The story of Perfect Blue is a saddening one. I am not talking about the subject of the movie but the fate of the movie itself. Perfect Blue has been grossly and unfairly overlooked by the masses, myself included until recently. Having seen this video in the store for awhile and not hearing a thing about it save only what i had read at review sites i blindly bought this. I let it just sit in a pile of other dvd's for about a week almost forgetting about it. For some reason this little voice in my head was telling me that it'd prolly blow like so many other anime i have seen, thus i was in no hurry to subject myself to it. Finally i was so bored one night that i figured "Why not?" and threw it in.
All i can really say is WOW!!!!!!!!!
This is without question, far and away, the best anime i have ever bought!!! I would never have guessed that that little piece of plastic could hold so much insanity! It starts off innocently enough and for a bit i thought maybe i had made another lame purchase but for some reason i couldn't quit watching because i could just feel that something was just very wrong within the movie. Looking back i see it kind of like boxing. For the first half the movie they are jabbing you and suckering you in and then they just drop the bombs and by then it's just to late. All you can do is stare wide eyed at the horror unfolding while your mind it racing back and forth trying to figure out if there is a bad guy and if so who is it? Once you think you know the carpet is ripped out from under you. This happens again and again. You start to wonder what's real and what is imagination. Everything becomes blurred and just when you realize that you really don't know anymore...everything finally comes together.
I have heard a few people comment that they didn't like the ending but i think it made perfect sense. You will prolly need to go back and watch some parts again to fully grasp what all is happening. After numerous veiwings i am still amazed! The only other movie that gave me the same sense of impending doom and fear was Session 9. The fact that Perfect Blue is anime just makes this movie all the more amazing. Truth be told though, you prolly won't care that it's anime (unless you totally hate anime)or you'll forget that it is. This movie sucks you in that deep and doesn't let go.
If you have seen it in the stores and wondered if it was worth it then the answer is YES.
I honestly hope this thriller\suspense type of anime doesn't get jumped on and mass produced like every other type of anime. Not because i don't think that it's great but because i think most every attempt at it would pale when held up against Perfect Blue
Just forget it's anime because at it's root it's a incredible story that takes you on a one way trip through the heart of insanity.