siderite Humans, in a not so distant future, find Noah's Ark, a huge alien machine with purpose unknown. Two military factions are fighting for it, using augmented humans. The film is fast paced action, with Ninja Scroll like fights, only using technology.The final scenes also explain the motivations of the main character and provide the only deep meaning to the film, which is both refreshing and a bit shallow :) Take your pick.Overall: good animation, good dialogue, frantic action (including a James Bond kind of chase on the rooftops of Istanbul), epic finale. Nice.

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.

SSJAniFan Spriggan looked like an awesome action film from the screenshots I saw of it. When I decided to lay down $30 for the DVD, I didn't now how awesome it would be.The plot is something like Raiders of the Lost Ark, although not a clone of the original Harrison Ford film. However, many times, you will be reminded of ROTLA while watching this. I wish I could give something away about what happens, but I don't want to spoil it. Let's just say the action turns on the adrenaline by 100X. At times, you'll just be saying "whoa," as the good guys and bad guys beat the you-know-what out of each other.SPOILER IN THE NEXT PARAGRAPHFor people who have read the manga, most of which was translated in the U.S. as "Striker"(but oddly enough, when they were published in the U.S. as separate comic issues they kept the name "Spriggan"), and in particular "The Armored Warrior"(the story the film is based on), you will be seeing a bit of a change in the film's two heroes, Yu and Jean. In the film, Yu is a bit of a schizo, and unlike his manga self, Jean does not, er, "Hulk out." Also, the movie also focuses a bit more on Yu's past than the original story did. If you can accept these changes, then you'll be able to watch the movie without to much protest.END SPOILERSThe English dub is surprisingly bearable. Christopher Patton, who does Yu's English voice, is actually pretty good. Also, if there are any fans of the English version of Evangelion, Spike Spencer(English voice of Shinji) does a purely psychotic Little Boy.The animation and music are excellent, and are still pretty good for a movie which came out five years ago. I love the music, so much that I actually tracked down a CD soundtrack to the film.BOTTOM LINE: Who needs the Matrix? This is the best action film I've ever seen in my life.

cyberbat I saw this on my dvd. The people were too quiet and the sound effects too loud so I was continually fiddling with the remote.The animation is ok, but not worth gushing over.Story was not really all that interesting to me, I wasn't expecting a war epic like gasaraki.But a solid bit of work none the less. 7 out of 10.music was good.