This was terrible.
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.
Super intense in-the-moment war movie with good performances and visual effects and excellent sound design. A lot of folks are criticizing this for being pro-America propaganda, I didn't get that from it but that's just me.
Al Pacino's debut as a lead, written by Joan Didion and her husband, whose name I forget. Pacino was great, of course, but overall pretty underwhelming and unimaginative story of a drug addict whose charisma pulls another into an addiction of their own.
Excellent casting and performance from Judy Greer off type as well as Alexander Skarsgård. Michael Shannon's directoral debut. Good story, executed just fine.