A beautifully filmed Japanese anime movie directed by master Katsuhiro Ohtomo. Steamboy, let us first say, is a gorgeous film to behold built sadly on a very light plot. In mid-19th century industrial England Rei, a young inventor, receives a gift from his grandfather Roid - a marvelous invention called the "Steam Ball" which can make any engine umpteen times more powerful. What ensues is a treatise on the good/bad of science as embodied in Rei's father and grandfather married to the evils a monolithic corporation - the Ohara Foundation - bent on capitalizing the ball for all its worth. It is a beauty to behold and a boredom to watch (the chase scenes aside).
My rating 5 out of 10.
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