Edge of your seat

When I was ten years old I saw Akira, the Japanese animated film. I was alone and could not take my eyes of it. There was nothing routine in any of the events. It starts with a hostage situation running in the street, that has a twist right a way, then gang war, riots in the streets, military coupe, spies, secret military experiments, hints of super natural powers, finally it all grows into the fate of the world. It sounds like a Godzilla movie, but it's more like the critically acclaimed first Godzilla movie, but in a bigger, stranger, future world that fells very real and lived in. To make two and a half hours feel like ninety minutes is a real feat.