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Plot:
Tokyo is the city where the final battle between the Dragon of Earth and the Dragon of Heaven will take place in the Japanese anime film X, directed by Rintaro (a.k.a. Tarô Rin; Astro Boy, K...( read more 
)) and written by the all-woman writing team Clamp. The Dragon of Earth wants to wipe out humankind because of the damage people have inflicted on the Earth, while the Dragon of Heaven is fighting to protect civilization. At the center of all this is Kamui, the chosen one, who must pick a dragon to fight for.
Full of dreams and flashbacks that pop up out of nowhere, the structure of X could be considered confusing and needlessly complex--if the story weren't so simple. Obviously, we're supposed to root for the Dragon of Heaven to win and save mankind, but the funny thing is, the Dragon of Earth has the better argument. If it were a debate, humanity would lose. But it's not a debate, it's an action film, and many of Tokyo's most famous buildings get destroyed in the battles. As with most anime, the women are either girlishly cute or slutty, but luckily in X, there are no graphic rapes; the love interest is merely crucified three or four times. It may not be the greatest anime film out there, but at least it's never boring. --Andy Spletzer
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Recent Reviews
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MCT:April 20, 2008A fairly averge manga film here. Not much to talk about, characters were intersting but the plot was a bit shit. Some good battle scenes but nothing great.
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MCT:April 20, 2008
The history has many changes of the manga, everything happens so fast and there is no opportunity to penetrate in the characters, but has a good animation.
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MCT:April 20, 2008A stylized adataption of the long-running manga. A very good job condensing the massive and deep story of X:1999. Lots of build-up and tension, however, the ending is pretty disappointing.
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MCT:April 20, 2008As a concept, this was amazing. However, having read what's been published of the manga, this was a real let-down. It was supremely rushed, and didn't seem to follow the manga much at all. I was thoroughly disappointed.
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MCT:April 20, 2008
Visually it's incredible. The art is to die for, despite the anorexic style CLAMP used on the characters. My biggest problem with this movie is that the characters had little to no depth. Fûma especially, if you've watched the film you'd know what I'm talking about. This of course is a big problem with many movies that are based off manga. The 97min. of this movie hardly did any justice to the 18 or so manga in the series
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MCT:April 20, 2008This movie has something I always find myself gravitating toward-A tragic ending that sees everyone get what they want except the hero who saved them all. I can't explain it, but that gets to me.
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MCT:April 20, 2008
it's tragically beautiful. not that deep of a story, but the whole tone is true to what the story wants to bring out.
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MCT:April 20, 2008Someone needs to read a dictionary. The word "foreordained" means something was predicted AFTER the fact. Any dumbass can do that. Watch this: "I predict George Bush will become president of the United States and suck at it" I'm a prophet baby! Put me in a movie!!!!
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MCT:April 20, 2008CLAMP's broad appeal with anime fans is beyond me, still to this date. At least everyone gets killed quite fast here. What a waste of X-Japan's Forever Love and "X".
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MCT:April 20, 2008
i absolutly love this film, it's better in japanese with english subtitles though, it's awsome although the tv series is better!
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MCT:April 20, 2008
a good serie of anime with interesting theme (bad and good) hidden behind angels. great sketches, great script great effects and script just too short ... :(
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MCT:April 20, 2008
If anyone were to ask me to describe what this movie was about all I would say was blood puddles, head chopping, head hugging. Even though this movie was VERY violent I still found it really interesting. I didn't really expect this movie to be so short though because if they wanted to they could have made it longer and it wouldn't have been bad it would allow the movie to have more developement. Anyway.... So in the end I found this movie very good and interesting. :)
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MCT:April 20, 2008
This movie was fucking awesome! It made me really mad at some parts (Fuma is a deuchebag!!!) but in the end it was totally amazing.
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MCT:February 17, 2008
Pace is ridiculously fast. Characters are introduced and dead in less than a minute (try to squeeze a 18-volume manga into a 100-minute film to see how it goes). It does spout some great action scenes and interesting dream-like imagery, but overall a very disappointing treatment of the manga.
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MCT:July 21, 2007
It's not bad.... but it's not particularly great either. (I personally find the series better) At least it looks really good and cool.
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MCT:July 16, 2007
A good anime, seems a bit incomplete without the entire series to help you understand the characters better. All in all a dark anime, I enjoyed it.
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MCT:March 28, 2007
Ew, just...ew. I did NOT like this at all. I didn't like the movie or the anime. >.< I still wonder how it was so popular...
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MCT:March 21, 2007
An excellent story all about making the right choice or the selfish choice. Action is great and the anime art is supreme
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MCT:March 13, 2007the movie is ok with the alternative ending than the tv show of it but would recomend the tv show tho
