Wicked City Review

Disclaimer: Contains spoilers!

Plot Summary: Two special agents are sent to protect a diplomat that is renewing a peace treaty between our world and a supernatural realm.

Review: I suppose this film is supposed to be an erotic, fantasy, thriller anime of some sort, but it never really decides what it wants to be as the primary genre. There is never too much sex or nudity (although it is often implied) which made it feel like one of those cheap made for HBO movies in the '80s and early '90s. The fantasy elements are never explored properly as we never get an understanding of what this "dark world" is actually like or why each being from it has all these powers. Also, how do they take human form since they say that's not how they really look? The action is also severly lacking as the main guy, Taki, is constantly being overpowered and surprisingly it is the girl, Makie (from the other realm), constantly saving his bitch ass. Each fight feels repeditive too: bad guys pop up, transforms into weird monsters, kicks Taki's ass, then Makie saves the day. The diplomat they are protecting makes no sense as he's human but has a lot of powers and is immortal or something; he's also super annoying and won't shut up! Apparently the twist to the film is that the bad guys don't care about the treaty, they just don't want Taki and Makie to get together because they can create offspring that are hybrids of both humans and the beings from the other world. At the end, the two leads fall in love and Makie is already pregnant...this is all in one night! While it has a lot of dumb moments and the genre is all over the place, it is a mostly entertaining foray into anime of the '80s. This film could have benefitted so much more from a better lead who isn't constantly being trounced or they should have made Makie the lead or maybe not present Taki as if he's super tough. Give it a view if your into this kind of anime, but I would definitely not recommend it to anyone other than that.

Notable Moment: Toward the end when Makie is fully powered from being pregnant and just obliterates the last bad guy.

Final Rating: 5.5/10