I'd like to have a little chat with the guy who came up with the villain for Spriggan. Here's how the conversation *might* go:

Me: I don't care what anybody says, a little boy with a lazy eye does NOT make a good villain.
Him: Yeah, but he has control of MAGNETISM!
Me: Oh come on, he tells Yuu to take off his shoes before they begin to fight so the floor won't get dirty!
Him: Did you see that backwards baseball cap he was wearing? That's cool, man.
Me: Hey, by the way, how did Jean get to where Yuu was in the end if Jean was unconscious?
Him: Magic

And that's how the conversation might go.

Spriggan is a visual masterpiece. If eye-candy and fast-paced action sequences are your cup of tea, then Spriggan is definitely the anime movie for you to see. The story is also fantastic and moves along quite nicely. Well... not really. All of the plot is given to us in the last 10 minutes or so of the movie which makes it a little difficult to take in all at once. Spriggan suffers the same mistake that the creators of Akira discovered: it is impossible to stuff an immense manga into a single movie.