Review of The Sky Crawlers

An excellent movie! Both dramatically moving and intense at moments, this film is a lot deeper than it looks, as it delves into topics such as personal identity and existentialism. The animation is clean, crisp and beautiful, though blatantly adding the 21st century fingerprint of 'blooming everything'. Production IG also needs to move on from it's standard character designs as they show striking resemblance to past features (Ghost in the Shell minus the bloom).

Whilst slow and confusing in some bits, the director manages to pull it off very nicely overall.