![]() The racers who opt out have legitimate reason to as the corrupt dictatorship of Roboworld vows to destroy anyone who comes to the planet to protect their unethical military secrets. But when the race is announced to take place on Roboworld two of the drivers drop out giving JP a chance to enter. “Sweet” JP is a racer whose ties to the mafia seemingly prevent him from qualifying for the big event. Racers from all over the galaxy battle in a no holds barred battle for fame and fortune. In the far future there is a high-profile underground race held every five years called the Redline. The story itself is pretty straightforward racing with all the complications that come with it like gambling, rivalries, ambition, and intergalactic dictatorships with secret mutant monsters weapons. The film starts with a waiting audience and takes a good minute and a half to reveal to us what they are waiting on, then a pounding beat kicks in and you’re hit with sheer energy. What I mean is that like a good rollercoaster ride, it builds up, takes your breath away, drops you, and then does it all over again which makes all the action more thrilling. You walk away feeling pumped, not because there aren’t any breaks but because there are. Redline crossed the finish line in glorious form.įull-throttle is both a figurative and a literal description of this movie, beginning and ending in beautiful and intense races. ![]() ![]() All the promises made were true if not somewhat underplayed. But now that everyone has a legitimate (and therefore less than legitimate) means to watch the film the general consensus is: it is awesome. At the same time the long-delayed production schedule and strange release made people worried if it would be a bloated piece of retro nonsense. People hoped that it was the perfection of an older and more extravagant form of animation. Tim Maughan was quite evangelical on the Internet which lead to a great deal of both extreme expectations and equally extreme skepticism (and often in the same people). When only a handful of the English-speaking anime fans had seen Redline there was a good deal of contention about how much of its reputation was hype and how much of it was real. It isn’t hype, Redline is just that amazing a ride. For quite sometime I’d been hearing the life altering power of watching Redline so when the opportunity arose to finally see it, one does not waste time! Redline is one of those movies that reminds you of what anime is capable of beyond live action so consequently it also reminded me why I fell in love with anime in the first place. ![]()
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