11 May 2025

Steamboy

2004

I was really excited to watch this. Steamboy is Katsuhiro Otomo's second film after directing one of the greatest animes of all time, Akira, but while Akira can hold your attention for 2+ hours, this cannot. It had the ingredients - excellent action sequences, incredible animation, and somewhat engaging but also sort of boring social commentary on capitalism - but just couldn't come together for me in the end.

★★½