Akira (1998) 1988 Watch Free in HD

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two kids and a group of psychics can stop.

Genre:

Action, Sci-Fi, Animation

Actors:

Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshô Genda, Hiroshi Ôtake, Kôichi Kitamura, Michihiro Ikemizu, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Masaaki Ôkura, Tarô Arakawa, Takeshi Kusao, ...»

Director:

Katsuhiro Ôtomo

Country:

Japan

Release:

1988

IMDb:

8.0

Quality:

Duration:

124 min

TIME Magazine

The movie, even at 124 minutes, has the densely packed sweep and go-for-it pep of a pop epic.

September 07, 2008

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Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

Moments that can only be captured as animation make Akira still worth watching: gusts of wind from chopper blades, ka-tooming bursts of fiery explosions, Tetsuo's visions.

January 12, 2012

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Antagony & Ecstasy

Handsome and preposterously ambitious, and even its worst narrative missteps are a factor of that ambition.

July 04, 2015

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Los Angeles Times

A compendium of the worst cliches of Japanese animation -- two hours of chases, laser attacks, machine-gun battles, spilled stage blood, computer-animated backgrounds and hokey dialogue.

April 10, 2013

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Common Sense Media

Extremely violent classic introduced anime to Westerners.

March 15, 2013

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Time Out

An impressive achievement, often suggesting a weird expressionist blend of 2001, The Warriors, Blade Runner and Forbidden Planet.

February 09, 2006

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Baltimore Sun

[Akira] is a blast and a half, a twisted dystopian parable of violence and rock and roll, Japanese-style. It's Disney on PCP, mean, rotten, psychotic, but incredibly vivid.

April 10, 2013

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Chicago Reader

Grade-school violence freaks may find a few kicks here, but even they may have trouble coping with this ugly movie's ending about eight separate times.

April 16, 2007

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Variety

A lavish animation extravaganza produced at a cost of $8 million, this futuristic exploration is a followup by author-director Katsuhiro Otomo to his tremendously popular comic books.

April 16, 2007

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News of the World

Plenty of superb recent blockbusters, including The Matrix, The Dark Knight, Minority Report, Dark City and Inception, are all in its debt - not to mention a fair number of shockers, like Star Wars Episode II and the most recent Resident Evil atrocity.

June 25, 2011

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Little White Lies

While its typically convoluted sci-fi plotting and sprawling ensemble of characters occasionally lead it to border on the incoherent, it's hard not to be in awe of the giant hand-drawn cityscapes that make up the backdrop for the eye-popping action.

July 18, 2013

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Chicago Tribune

Pounding away, it becomes monotonous.

April 10, 2013

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