Highly Overrated But Still Good

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

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).

Wicked City is terrible. I went into it expecting to like it with its interesting premise but gave up a few minutes in. Little did I know it would get far, far creepier and I'm not one who reacts to horror films much one way or another. It took me years to go back and finish watching it just to mark it as watched and even then half of the time I was doing something else while it was going on. This movie is like a recurring nightmare with the same things happening again; a woman turning out to be a demon (twice), seduction (three times) and rape and attempted rape 5(?) times. The whole idea of the movie was just cast aside in favour of sex and violence, both of which can be handled well but this is not a hentai nor is it a shonen so the amount of both is out of place here and the dissonance between what the premise is and what actually happens makes this movie easily one of the worst of anything I've seen in my life along with a horrendous flashing sequence in the last 10 minutes adding a sore pair of eyes to a sagging heart. With almost every other bad anime I've seen there has been some mitigating factor; Gundam F91 and Bokurano are only slightly bad, Ouran High School Host Club and Ladies X Butlers actually started off pretty well, Welcome To The NHK is pretty fun to watch once, but I can't stress only once enough and so on but all that can be said about Wicked City is the females are hot (though that's the case in nearly every anime) and it isn't Meine Liebe though not being the worst of anything is the bare minimum; not an achievement. If I were to be punched in the stomach then the knowledge that the person is using their weaker fist wouldn't be the first thing on my mind.

This was my 1st. full-length anime motion picture I have ever seen, & ranks as one of my favorites! Taking place in the future, our hero, Taki who by day is an electrical salesman, & by night, a "Black Guard", is asked by his superiors to guard without failure a known senior negotiator, Mr. Guiseppe Mayart & to make sure he is at a treaty signing, & will be working with a partner, a "Black Guard" from the "Black World"....a female named "Makie". Together, they experience various situations from other renegade members of the Black World that try to thwart the treaty signing. What Taki & Makie don't know is that their pairing up from both worlds to protect Mr. Mayart has more that one objective, which makes sense later. What I liked about Wicked City is not just the storyline, but the anime itself. What I mean here is that this feature was "hand done" & not by computer, which is why it looks different from other anime features. NOTE: Unless your kids are of age, this anime is by all means not for the young ones. Aside from the "adult" parts, Wicked City is Excellent anime entertainment, which I am sure you'll enjoy!PS.: Happy Birthday, IMDb! & May you have many more!

And the best part is the gun was before Men in Black and the Noisy cricket!!!! Eat that America!!!!! This is an awesome anime full of a rich plot, action,nudity, and an awesome gun!!!! Personally it had a little bit to much nudity and sexual situations for me but that gun made up for it. Seriously, it is a great anime worthy of being added to any anime collection. It kinda reminded me of BioHunter + The X-Files + Some other stuff. I got this DVD at a pawn shop for a few bucks maybe $5 but even at $20 it would be a bargain. This gun in the movie had to be fired backed against a wall because of the force of the blast, and even then it would crack a concrete wall.