Spriggan Review – 61/100

Spriggan is basically the big action movie of Studio 4C. Unfortunately, it’s also one of their worst works. You have to give it credit for taking place in Turkey, though. The overall feel of the Turkish cities in the beginning of the movie is portrayed quite well. If only the rest of the movie wasn’t such a horrible mess.

The biggest problem lies with the main character: he’s another one of those 17-year-old brats with superhuman abilities with shallow explanation. He ends up performing one reckless act after the other without even breaking a sweat. The movie quickly ceases to be engaging, simply because you won’t feel any reason to connect to the main character because his superpowers will save him out of the situation anyway.

The plot isn’t much better off. Hardly anything is explained, so a lot of parts end up not making any sense at all. This isn’t in the way that Yukikaze was incomprehensible; for Spriggan, the writers just have been damn lazy. Characters also posses knowledge of which you’d wonder how the heck they found that out. Basically, all Spriggan cares about are action and pretty graphics.

Thankfully, the climax itself is satisfying. Well, satisfying enough when compared to the rest of the movie. It actually saves some time to give the main character some much-needed development and it was much less over-the-top as I feared. Still, it by no means made up for the mess that was the rest of the movie. The only reason why you should watch this is if you’re tired and want something that doesn’t require you to think. Spriggan is perfect for this and it’ll at least keep you entertained with its action-scenes. Thankfully, it isn’t as stupid as Giniro no Kami no Agito, there are a few good points, but don’t expect any substance from this one.