Please don't spend money on this.

Good concept, poorly executed.

good back-story, and good acting

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

7 years to create this masterpiece? Yes, you can see it in every frame in Redline. So much love in the details, characters and art.The movie is not only about the races and vehicles. We also get a insight of the daily life of the creatures and how the main character JP enjoys his time before the next race in the huge Cyberpunk world of Redline.The races are of course the best part in this movie. The vehicles have insane weapons, transformations and boosts. It's mind blowing when JP or the other racers use their boosts because you can see special tracking shots from inside the vehicles and how the racer reacts to the unbelievable speed of his own car.I also love that they don't use 3d objects in this movie and when they do, you won't even recognize them.I really enjoyed Redline because you can see the love they've put in every frame in the 7 years until the movie was finished.Watch this movie when you just want to sit down a have some fun with awesome animations, sound and characters and of course their incredible vehicles.

I hate all that fast and furious whatever type of movies. I find them incredible shallow and macho-like (yeah, there're also macho girls).Believe me, this is nothing like that. I was skeptical at the beginning, expecting to see something I would dislike.Instead, I found a crazy and extremely funny anime with a lot of action and fast paced fun.Ah, I watched it after reading some suggestions about mature anime. In this movie there's nothing like sex or that much violence. A girl is sitting relaxing on a sofa in topless, that's all about it. I believe they say sh*t one or twice throughout the movie. So don't be scared to try this, even if you are more into Totoro!

This is definitely a top class anime flick! I won't lie and says it has a killer storyline - it's no Ghibli movie - but it is totally cool and it does have memorable characters even if they aren't fully fleshed out. It's like watching a 2 hr long episode of Cowboy bebop (style & adrenalin) meets Outlaw Star (comedy ). It is suave anime and it does it very well. Well worth 102 mins of your time - it's like a guilty pleasure. And the soundtrack is one of the best around, period! It's about "Sweet" JP, a small-time ex-con racer who competes mostly to help his mechanic buddy Frisbee pull off fixes for the mob he owes money to, but he finally gets a shot at the biggest race of them all - the illegal Redline. Also competing is his secret crush "Crab" Sonshee and she wants nothing more than to climb that winners' podium for her long-lost dad. It's a race where anything goes (and usually does) - add to that the authorities want to stop the race at all costs and what you get is the anime version of The Cannonball Run, with a lot of explosions, nitro, burning rubber and a cast of characters good and bad you'll not forget anytime soon!

I saw this film in Adelaide as part of Madman Entertainment's 'Reel Anime' festival. Redline is directed by Takeshi Koike, whom you'll know as long time Madhouse animator working under Yoshiaki Kawajiri on such legendary anime films as Ninja Scroll & Wicked City. So you know what to expect lookwise. Lots of dark shading & fluid, really well choreographed action movement. Redline is no exception! An absolutely incredible amount of effects animation on display here. Explosions & detailed mechanical carnage abound. Every shot of any character is just dripping with attitude too - very cool stuff.I won't say too much about the story other than to say it is a fairly straightforward racing tale. Follows the typical formula - racing, a bit of background stuff, then the BIG race... Fairly familiar in that regard, but the visual side of this film - the car designs, the architecture, the costumes - are really original & just plain cool! As I've said above, the animation is awesome & the shot choices are really dynamic & exciting to watch. A visual feast! Sit back & soak it up!