I have been a fan of Devilman since I first saw the cartoon when I was 3. Later years, I got my hands on more and more stuff, like the bilingual mangas, the complete anime series, and the 2 amazing volumes of the OVA.(The bootleg and the hilarious English dubs). I have a lot of the action figures and other forms of collectibles. So....I AM A HUGE FAN of Devilman.Than I saw the trailer for this movie....my god I was so excited...I even excused the fact that Siren wasn't a naked demon lady with wings on her head...When I got the chance, I purchased a copy from China through ebay.I watched it.....sigh*....It was awful...The actors were horrible, they changed around the plots and story and interactions. They never explained or even attempted to fill the GAPING plot holes. SO...being such a big fan of Devilman, I am choosing to officially disassociate this movie completely.

DEVILMAN makes the leap from anime to live-action well enough, if you ask me. In fact, it's one of the better anime-based live-action features. The anime happens to be one of my favorites. (My own DEVILGOD, who'll be appearing in a future issue of my black and white comic CAPE FEAR COMICS, was inspired by none other than Go Nagai's DEVILMAN.) (CAPE FEAR COMICS can be found at comiXpress.com, for those interested in seeing someone put his money where his mouth is.) Like the creatures in Clive Barker's NIGHTBREED, Go Nagai's DEVILMAN dwells just this side of the next world. It's a fascinating place to be, if you ask me.

::sigh:: Where to begin? I just watched Devilman today. No, that's not entirely accurate, more like I skimmed through devilman today. I TRIED to watch, I really did, but dear sweet Jesus the acting is about as HORRIBLE as I've ever seen. Ever. Previous posters have all expounded on the sheer folly of casting pretty boy actors to play the mains, so I will avoid beating a dead horse past what is absolutely necessary.A trained hamster would have been more believable as Akira.I love the Devilman storyline and universe, and have been a fan of the manga for years. In my opinion, the movie went disastrously wrong because it attempted to consolidate a super-massive and incredibly relevant story into a mere 90 minutes, touching on not just one but several huge plot lines and seemingly expecting the audience to bring previous knowledge of the series to the theater. It's absurd, and the inane plot is made even worse by the utter emotional detachment the actors have to the material. I've seen B-grade movies with more convincing acting than this.In all honesty, I can only imagine what the director must have been going through, but even complex source material is no excuse for thoroughly botching a theatrical release. At its crux, the Devilman storyline attempts to distill the nature of human evil by pitting its title character not only against the more black and white villainy of the demons, but to the atrocities that we human readily commit against one another in the name of self preservation. Akira is the perfect tool for trying to convey the various schisms of the concept, but instead of taking his polar natures and attempting to portray them realistically, the movie establishes Akira as a hero simply because he is a "demon with the heart of a human." Stated right in the beginning, after which Ryo comes up and gives Akira the most ridiculous handshake ever.Oh. Great. Now I understand. That's a lovely way of destroying what could arguably be one of the most intriguing personal conflicts in the history of anime. Hell, Akira's demon nature, Amon, doesn't even so much as blink an eye this entire film even when Akira is stumbling through the ruins of his home clutching his girlfriend's dismembered head to his chest! WHAT THE HELL?! Perhaps I'm being too harsh on the film because I still hold Amon: Apocalypse of Devilman to be one of the better adaptations of the franchise, but is it unreasonable to expect TRAINED ACTORS instead of androgynous manikins trying to bring these characters to life? At the very least, the CG direction did have a few impressive moments, most especially with the way the scene seems to suddenly shift into manga speed lines and scratch-inking whenever Devilman offs a demon. It would have been an absolutely wonderful tool if it had been used as a central visual theme, but on its own its hardly capable of salvaging this mockery of a film.The director took an amazing storyline and butchered it. Useful only for nights of drunken party dubbing or as a teaching tool for "WHAT NOT TO DO WITH A BELOVED FRANCHISE" in film class. Save yourself the misery and just walk away.

after seeing the first two devil man anime on video some time ago, i was pleasantly surprised to find a real-life version of it on DVD. but after watching the first 10 minutes it became abundantly clear that this movie couldn't live up to the standard of the original series.while the special effects didn't suck that much (but sometimes reminding of a beat em up on your average console) the rest of the move was brain-imploringly bad. even with the knowledge from the original series this movie just makes no sense. not at all. the single scenes are barely connected, in parts even contradicting each other. the dialogue of the German version (which i watched) was painstakingly bad and sometimes even made you laugh out loud ("ich bin schliesslich Satan!") , the actors (if they even are actors, that is) mostly manage to keep the same expression throughout the entire movie. the fights aren't that bad, but mostly over after like 5 seconds and cant redeem the rest of the movie at all.conclusion: "normal" viewers shouldn't touch this movie with a ten foot pole, even fans of the original series should have problems understanding it, not even counting in the various logical errors in the story as the movie tells it. i want that 90min of my life back.