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The ending is a little hokey but the combat scenes are unparralleled! Highly detailed, incredibly articulated and dynamic animation. As some one who's worked at some US animation shops I can say this is some of the best stuff I've seen in the past few years (in terms of the motion)...think Cowboy Bebop level of quality.

The non-action stuff is also beautiful compositionally. Kawasaki, the director, keeps his pallette very desaturated so it has a slighlty melencholoy feel to it. The soundtrack is also worth mentioning as it is very, very good. Maybe one of the best action movie soundtracks I have ever heard. I saw this on the big screen in Japan when it came out and saw it a few times since at various festivals (subtitled). I have enjoyed every screening.

An average anime action movie
Well what can I say,it has animation done by the folks behind anime classics like Metropolis,Akira,and Ghost in the shell,has well staged action sequences and superb soundtrack. Knowing that you might be expecting something the next Akira,but you might end up a bit dissapointed. Unlike other big budget animes that are more plot oriented,all Spriggan has going for it is nice animation and lots of action.

The animation in the film is some of the best I've seen and the action sequences are some of the most intense i've in any other anime or live action film. There are a lot of elements like the pyscic child that seem to be ripped right out if akira,but hey that what happens when the creators of akira worked on this movie. The movie has lots of promise at first but then turns into a simple action movie. It's like your expecting something big like 2001:a space oddesy but end up seeing another James bond type action movie.

All in all Spriggan isn't the best anime ever made,it's actually pretty average,but it's still worth to see once just for fun. I enjoyed the movie and plan to buy the dvd. Spriggan may not be as geat as akira or ghost in the shell, it's still up there on my list.

weak plot, useless dialog, and a horrible ending
Plot:
The hero tries to stop the United States from obtaining alien technology. U.S. forces hit the hero with everything they have, but the hero cannot be killed. A little boy super villian takes about 30 minutes to tell the hero that he doesn't really like the United States and was really just using the United States to to help him get the alien technology so he could destroy the world. After the little boy super villian finishes talking. The hero stops the little boy super villian. The end.

Positive:
1. The anime has fluid motion.
2. There are quite a few action scenes.

Negative:
1. There is actually a lot of talking scenes, but its meaningless dialog that adds little to the nearly non-existent story.
2. The hero literally cannot die no matter how much the bad guys shoot him. Bullets, electricity, explosives, etc. merely stun him. He cannot be killed.
3. The ending is very drawn out with a very long conversation between the hero and the top villian. The action and graphics seem to go down hill towards the end too.
4. A lot of the scenes appear dark and the graphics aren't as good as more recent anime.

Overall, Spriggan had some decent action, but there are quite a few slow scenes and Spriggan is not worth watching once the little boy super villian shows up.