Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

circular-boat tl;dr: Plot holes, poor story and characters, borderline hentai, uninspired. May be not worth your time, unless you do not care for what is above. Do not watch it, or do it skipping through it.This movie is plenty of plot holes and obscure twists and situations, and rough character design. The storyline is pretty simple and you can predict the ending pretty soon (I saw it coming at around minute eight). Unexplained events, super powers, and total absence of lore or further development of the opposition dark-real worlds.The City in the "Wicked City" is missing, and that is bad. We mostly see interiors; just a couple of times we can appreciate the skyline.Cliques are abundant. The old depraved man, the lady killer big guy who falls in love, and so on, but they are static and superficially drawn.Violence and gore moments are uninspired. The horror,I argue, is all about the poorly written story and characters.The atmosphere and the sceneries are interesting, even though the color palette revolves too much, I think, on the red vs blue dichotomy. Monsters design is intriguing (the spider lady web and the two forms of the main antagonist).The soundtrack and sound design is basic and uninspired, below ordinary. The direction, anonymous.Ah, of course, plenty of nudity, which is not a bad thing if it is contextualized and coherent story-wise (I would watch an hentai instead). For example, the first sex scene that involves the male protagonist and a demon girl is not necessary. Even though the shape shifting of the girl is pretty cool, it does not add much to the story: they have sex and she says "we will meet later". Fine, they do. The guy is almost dying, hit by the lady but... the demon is struck by a lighting bolt from the sky. End. Also, rape vs romantic sex dichotomy (standard) and tentacles (unjustified: it is not tentacle hentai).

jadavix "Wicked City" is a tedious anime film, vaunted for its heavy sex and violence but not worth watching for either.The "story" is something about a demon world that co-exists, unnoticed, with humans. If this had been made in the 21st century, or even a bit before, it would be about a teenage boy who has a chance encounter with a demon that forcing him to cross over to the other side, and then cope with life in that world. You can also do the same thing with sexy girls and huge stomping robots - that, my friends, is 99% of anime and manga.Anyway, anime had a short-lived fascination with the typical dull hero type in the '80s and early '90s, and "Wicked City" has an example of that in its bland protagonist. The situation is not helped in the English dub where he has the most generic voice imaginable.So, to get to the only reasons anyone has heard of this anime: how much sex and violence does it have?It's really not that violent. If you're used to '80s/'90s anime OVAs and films, you've seen material a million times worse than this: there's very little in the way of blood and guts.And the sex? Well, it does deliver in that regard, but in a world with so many free hentai streaming services, why waste your time? It's not particularly erotic or interesting.

predator_silver77 The Plot: There is earth, our familiar world, and then there is the Black World, a parallel dimension that very few people are aware of. For centuries, a pact between the two worlds has been observed to maintain peace, and terms must be negotiated and renewed soon to continue the relative harmony. This time around, there is a militant faction that will stop at nothing to prevent the signing of a new treaty for inter-dimensional peace. Two agents of the elite organization known as the Black Guards-defenders of the balance between the two worlds-are charged with insuring the success of the treaty. Director Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Ninja Scroll) blends stylish eroticism, graphic horror and pulse-pounding action as these two race to consummate the peace treaty in time.My Spiel: Wicked City was a mind blowing shape shifting animation of greatness the first time I saw it. I couldn't believe what I was watching. Wicked City has a certain style just like (NINJA SCROLL) But with this it was bringing the city element to life. As well as shape shifting monsters from the Black World to life. WC contains tons of blood shed and violence, and quite a bit of nudity and sexual scenes, but don't let that disturb you this is a well crafted anime from the story to the point it is trying to get across. I just remember after watching this the first time I thought nothing can beat that, then I saw Ninja Scroll which was even better. But Wicked City is a great double movie feature with Ninja Scroll I have to say those are 2 of my top 10 favorite Animes because of the impact that hit me after watching them one after another.Wicked City (1987) Review: 9/10

Paulie Thalidomide 'Wicked City' isn't the worst film that I have ever seen. It just wasn't enjoyable. For its director, Yoshiaka Kawajiri to now be considered a "visionary" anime director with his film 'Program' in the recent 'Animatrix' anthology, he can't be a total loss, his other films since 1989 maybe a lot better than 'Wicked City'.But to the film. 'Wicked City' sees Taki, a member of the secret organization the Black Guards assigned to protect Dr. Mayart whose job it is to oversee the renewal of a treaty between Earth and the Demon World. As the mainstream movie-dom cliche tends to go, Taki who works alone is immediately paired with Mackie, a seductive Black Guard who hails from the mysterious Demon World. Together, Mackie and Taki protect Dr. Mayart from Demon World extremists (of course) out to stop the treaty from taking place.In my experience, there are two types of anime. Really good anime and really bad anime. Unfortunately, 'Wicked City' falls into the latter category. In amongst the obligatory gratuitous violence which people have come to expect from action movies, the film has lingering scenes of gang rape and segments of the fights look like something out of a tentacle hentai movie which almost made me throw up.'Wicked City' is not redeemed by what becomes the standard two-heroes-protecting-witness/diplomat storyline. Dr. Mayart, who is like Yoda with nymphomania is extremely dislikable, and the eye-rollingly bad sexual tension between Taki and Mackie seems only to be there to fill in time between cardboard sex scenes between the pair. The treaty sub-plot doesn't gel at least for me. Why is it that only people from the Demon World want to overthrow the treaty? So much for the political intrigue.I don't get disgusted by a simple action film, but I do get disgusted by an overly simple action film that reeks of mysoginy and pervertedness. It was for those reasons that 'Wicked City' was so unenjoyable. I'll be able to forgive Yoshiaka Kawajiri for 'Wicked City' if his latest film 'Program' exceeds 'Wicked City' in quality. O *'s out of 5 from me.