The story line to Wicked City is interesting, but lacks the depth to make it anything more than good. We have two worlds looking to renew a peace treaty and two lovers caught in the middle. Unfortunately, that's where it takes it's nose dive. While the world and premise are interesting, we never have a world or story line that feels properly fleshed out.
First, the world has an interesting premise, but much of the film seems to expect you to just take what they're offering at face value. While none of it seems too far fetched, there are a lot of things you need to infer on your own. A little more explanation would have been welcomed in my opinion.
Then the story line seems to do the same, while I don't always need things spoon fed to me, having a character say the opposite of what they are portraying on screen seems counter intuitive at best, poor direction at it's worst.
Further more, the character's never feel appropriate to who they're supposed to be. Makie and Taki are supposed to be the best agents from Earth and the Black World, but act more like a couple of screw ups throughout the film. Makie is caught more times than I can count and Taki seems to be beat at almost every turn.
The fight scenes are okay at best and don't really stand out.
Art is okay and slightly below average, given its age. Sound it rough. At times, acting (English) is total trash and at other times, it's actually not half bad. The actor who voiced Giuseppe sounds like he's swallowing the microphone for most of the film. He's incredible hard to understand.
Wicked City disappoints in that I think at it's core is a solid love story and solid premise, but it fails to deliver on a show that is anything but fair. Worth a watch, but don't expect anything incredible.
