Title - 20th
century Boys Pt1 the beginning of the end
Language – Japanese
Genre – Sci Fi
20th century
Boys is an epic 3 films long and the first film is over 2 hours long.
It start proper when a group of friends attend there high school
reunion against the backdrop of two occurrences, an out break of a
strange disease that drains it's victims of there blood and a cult
which is gathering a big following.
Kenji, one of the group
was told that one of his customers had disappeared and, when he went
to investigate he found a symbol on the house wall, the Symbol was
created by Kenji and his friends when they were still at school and
only the small group knew about it. As Kenji and his friends dig
deeper into the mystery they find that the leader of the cult, who is
only known as Friend is bringing a story that the group wrote as
children, the 'Book of Prophecy' tells how an evil organisation will
end the word on December 31st 2000. Kenji and his friends
fight to stop the prophecy’s from coming true.
I have to say it's been
a while since I've seen anything that has made me want to review it
right after I've seen it but the first part of 20th
century boys is one hell of a ride, starting out as a mystery and
leading into an apocalyptic sci-fi complete with plague spewing
robots and even a ray gun it reaches into the future without being to
fanciful.
The story is mainly set
in the late 1990's to 2000 but also flashes back to Kenji's child
hood and into 2015 (when I think the second part is set) with the
main story ending as the group fight the aforementioned robot.
For a film that has
robots, ray gun's and biological weapons 20th century boy
is very grounded in reality, showing where the technology comes from,
and why it is deployed leaving the viewer with a chain of events that
could conceivably happen and I think this is part of why the film is
so good, that and the excellent sound track.
Defiantly one to watch
& I will be watching part 2 very soon
