Matialth
Good concept, poorly executed.
Teddie Blake
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Calum Hutton
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
John Doe
This was a great anime film having been released originally in Manga format written by Hiroshi Takashige and art by Ryoji Minagawa (he also did the series Project Arms). It has a lot of top-notch action sequences and really high quality animation for 1998. The film was supervised by Katsuhiro Otomo also (for you Akira lovers out there lol) However, ADV Films did rewrite the English script which i didn't like but that's okay lol it's still a good movie and it is still worth seeing. as the English voice actors did a great job with their roles.I give Spriggan a 7/10
tcbdeo
Frankly, Spriggan will be offensive to those who literally perceive Western holy books and/or who are pro-America. It is best if they avoid this film. It is no wonder that the movie seems to be censored in America. Spriggan is not produced in the United States and vendors from Amazon UK will not even ship to the U.S. Real collectors will want a copy just because of its rarity.Pacing is great and action is superb. The good-guys are the standard boring but the villains are fun. The animation has a personal style and is fluid.Anyone who thinks Spriggan is a poor film is a person with very specific expectations.
j-bullfrogger
Spriggan is one of the worst types of anime movies one can watch. The characters are undeveloped, the plot is ridiculous and the plausibility impossible.The main character, Yu, for example, recovers multiple times after being a hair breadths away from death. Likewise, his partner Jean survives every major catastrophe from being run over by a giant snowmobile, falling off a cliff, being torn to shreds by dinosaurs and even being shot by accident by Yu.The plot of Noah's ark as a climate control and human creating device has absolutely no relevance to the movie. That ark's purpose is to merely serve as an object in which two competing forces - the Pentagon and AROAM, the unit Yu serves - are fighting for.Many times the duologue goes into ridiculous, incomprehensible speech such as third dimensions, and whatnot.Other random crap: 1) Only one woman in the entire movie - Maragaret, who plays no significant role - only serves to pull a professor from death by the antagonist, a wire wielding genetically modified toddler 2) Random enemies who were once Yu's partners but whom he seems to enjoy killing mercilessly 3) Jumping from scene to scene with no smooth transition or logical connection at all, such as traveling from Istanbul to Mt. Arrarat In Conclusion: This warped, disconnected plot and unaffable characters make this movie a sure miss. Don't watch it. You'll pity yourself afterwards.
Applerod
Shame on me. Shame on me for mindlessly buying this movie based on internet recommendations. I went to an anime site that allows you to enter a movie you like, and you will receive recommendations. The movie I entered is Akira. This was the number one recommendation. I cannot begin to conceive how and why this movie came up. Akira is EXCELLENT, in every facet of it's execution--plot, characters, animation, etc... This is sh*t.To begin to review this pile of garbage is to grant it too much consideration, but I will allow some of that. I think the problem starts with the fact that the object of mystery is Noah's Ark. This of course means hearing scripture. (Remember, I'm embarrassed even to be writing this, because I just bought the movie.) The scripture is quoted *just enough to be vaguely unsettling in the fact that it is Christian. I don't mean to belabor this point though, as you'll probably hear less than 20 seconds of the stuff; but in a movie in which the combined dialogue runs for 5-10 minutes, it's something to think about. The whole plot is right out of Indiana Jones, minus the good movie part.Really it's just a mindless shoot-em-up with a VERY thin plot, and completely disposable characters. Two of the characters are called Fatman and Little Boy (just brilliant). This should appeal to boys ages 8-10. The dialogue, sparse as it is, is totally laughable: "We can't all be Schwarzenegger." or French Spriggan: "I don't bluff, mon ami." I wish I was a member of the site that recommended this movie, so I could try to attempt to understand how this movie came into comparison with Akira. I would personally rate Akira about a 9. I'm giving this a 2. I was going to give it a 3, because of the animation, but the style of the animation is totally generic; in point of fact there IS no style.TEN THUMBS DOWN. I was on the verge of crushing the DVD when I considered that there might be some resale value--to some eager young child, or mindless schlub such as myself.
